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About Me

Hello!! I am an acoustic guitarist and vocalist from the Toledo area. It's the most enjoyable thing in the world to me. Sitting down playing outside amongst a cool breeze, or bundled up next to a fire over a cup of joe or a cup of tea. With my music, I always try and write songs you can groove to (or do a little shakedown on). I just recently started re-exploring acoustic guitar after years of playing strictly electric (which I still do love to play as well). Though, acoustic has allowed me to get a lot more writing and performing going since full schedules make it hard to get a band or group going. So I'll try and make a name for myself and see what will ride out from there, maybe eventually a band will adjourn! Well I hope you enjoy the songs that myspace has been so very courteous to allow me to get to everyone and I hope you all can help spread the word, showing a friend or two my music. Feel free to add me as a friend or send me a comment or message letting me know what you think. I could not be happier writing and performing music, though the road ahead may be rough, I'm anxious to see where it may possibly lead. I hope you can make it out to some shows as well! Be sure to check out the upcoming shows on my main page. Hope to see you at a show soon! Thanks again for any kind of input/ help you can bring! I'll try to do my best to get some info out on anything new I might be doing musically! Peace... -jason******For booking or any additional info about Jason LaPorte Music, please send an e-mail to [email protected]******* ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ (I enjoy what Peta stands for and think it is worth checking out and making your own opinion on the way animals are handled in society. Check it out and drop me a line on what you think.)~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ *REGULAR ANNUAL JASON LAPORTE SHOWS: I currently have a steady gig performing every Tuesday and Sunday nights at Maxwells Brew in Toledo at 2661 West Bancroft Street right next door to the University of Toledo. These gigs have been a lot of fun and a lot of good friends have come out and made these gigs an amazingly good time. Thanks to those of you I am speaking of!*
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Member Since: 4/23/2006
Band Members: Jason LaPorte - guitar, vocals, groove dancin'. You ALL - love and support, groove dancin'.
Influences: Friends, family, the environment around us, emotions, feelings. Music - The Beatles, especially John Lennon, David Crosby, Stephen Stills, Graham Nash, Neil Young, Jack Johnson, Incubus, Mark Farner, The Allman Brothers, Bob Marley, Sublime, Ben Harper, John Butler Trio. Blues, jazz, folk, groove, alternative, rock, soul, R & B, lounge.
Sounds Like: A sweet sunny day you hope will never end until the night sets in with a cool breeze and your mind is at ease...
Record Label: Not yet...
Type of Label: None

My Blog

No more Mutz.

Unfortunately, I will no longer be performing at Mutz Bar in downtown Toledo regularly. They have decided to remodel and in order to accomodate this process they have decided to remove live musi...
Posted by Jason LaPorte on Thu, 13 Sep 2007 05:36:00 PST

Changes in shape, mind, and matter.

Well, time brings on change and change brings on opportunity. The Jason LaPorte Maxwells Trio has disbanded. This is really just a personal notion that I felt needed to occur for the time ...
Posted by Jason LaPorte on Thu, 07 Jun 2007 08:44:00 PST

Yppah eb, yrrow ot deen oN

Playing with Katz-n-Jammers was such an amazing time! The weather was cold which in turn made the audience limited, but there were still quite a few people and my level of playing was at its max...
Posted by Jason LaPorte on Fri, 18 May 2007 05:16:00 PST

Come to Katz-n-Jammers and me! Headliners Saturday, May 12th!

Hey everyone! I will be opening for Katz-N-Jammers (Dave Katz of Ekoostik Hookah) on Saturday, May 12th at Headliners. Please come out and support and be sure to groove some too! Get a hold of me for ...
Posted by Jason LaPorte on Sun, 06 May 2007 01:11:00 PST

First time gig at Mutz downtown.

Just wanted to say thank you to all of the people who cae out to Mutz this past Friday for my first gig there. I had an amazing time and it seemed like everyone else did to. Friends, famil...
Posted by Jason LaPorte on Sat, 27 Jan 2007 07:31:00 PST

I'm beginning to see...

I'm lucky right when I need to be...I am blessed in ways only I could be...There is a light at the end of every tunnel for me...I will get by, though at the time it can't be believed...I am who I woul...
Posted by Jason LaPorte on Tue, 12 Dec 2006 05:32:00 PST

New music in the key of jason

So I'm really hoping that after the end of the school semester at UT I will sit down and get creative and align some set lyrics to my original songs so I no longer have to improvise half of them on th...
Posted by Jason LaPorte on Wed, 06 Dec 2006 01:28:00 PST

Bangin on a trash can, drummin on a street light...

First off I would like to thank all the people who come out to the shows (especially the Maxwells folks) for being so supportive and all around good people. Sitting only at the beginning ...
Posted by Jason LaPorte on Wed, 21 Jun 2006 12:26:00 PST

Topless??

The best investment you could make... or close to the best. My very good friend Paul sells t-shirts that he has designed himself. They are very high quality and you can get them in any color you...
Posted by Jason LaPorte on Wed, 21 Jun 2006 12:52:00 PST

The things that matter most will not always prevail...

Well, I have been playing a lot of shows and already have had a lot of things thrown at me that have truly shown me the side of being a musician that it seems can make you want to run from the industr...
Posted by Jason LaPorte on Mon, 12 Jun 2006 02:44:00 PST