Surf-jazz meets rock n’ roll

With influences as diverse as Phish, Radiohead, Eric Clapton, and Nat King Cole, John Paris Hare is combining some of the best of elements of folk, rock, blues, and jazz into a spicy 4-for-1 cocktail available everywhere from your local club to the neighborhood beer garden. Over the last 10 years, he’s built up an impressive resumé of performances ranging from Berlin rock clubs and Nashville honky-tonks, to Charleston beach bars and breweries.

His new album is set to be released in the fall of 2025.

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1999 - JPH begins classical piano lessons.

2005 - On his 13th birthday, JPH buys drum set with “all of his saved birthday money from Grandma” and subsequently starts middle-school band Loaded Dice with close friends. They play “Sweet Home Alabama” at the school variety show.

2007 - JPH buys acoustic guitar from a friend for $50. He joins high school jazz and rock groups as a guitar player.

2010 - JPH attends Brown University and studies counterpoint, composition, and music theory on top of a major in European Intellectual History.

2013 - JPH begins playing regular circuit of campus frat parties with band The Spicy Withs.

2014 - JPH self-records first EP in university’s recording studio through several all-night sessions. Following graduation, he spends 3 months in Berlin.

2015 - First Opera (EP) is released. P plays release show with his band at The Bowery Electric in New York City.

2016 - The self-titled John Paris (EP) is recorded in Bunker Studio in Brooklyn and is released in August. JPH plays follow-up shows at The Bitter End and Arlene’s Grocery in New York City.

2017 - JPH relocates to Berlin indefinitely.

2018 - JPH plays a host of Berlin rock clubs with new band and dives into the city’s idiosyncratic street music scene.

2020 - JPH returns to the USA and relocates to Nashville.

2021 - JPH builds a new band and plays shows around Nashville, in addition to weekend tours to Chattanooga, Birmingham, and Atlanta.

2022 - JP relocates to Charleston, SC, and begins playing a regular circuit of restaurants, breweries, and beach bars, averaging 15 gigs/month.

2024 - JPH records new album in Nashville recording studio Rukkus Room, and takes a performance hiatus.

2025 - JPH relocates to Charlotte, NC.