My mom doesn’t but is a great cheerleader.īG: There you go! So, where exactly did you grow up? It just became a thing whenever we get together we have family jam sessions where every instrument is played and we’re all just trading off and having a good time, so.īG: That’s so neat.
JT: I have three brothers and one sister and all three of my brothers are also musicians.
A lot of gospel music, a lot of funk music, jazz, as I got older I was discovering more and more just from my dad’s CD collection and then I was stealing CDs from my older brother so I was getting other kinds of influences as well.īG: Ah, so cool! Do your siblings play as well? There was a lot of just being around music as I was getting into who I am as a person. My dad led music at a church and there was always guitars and drums and different things around the house and we would mess around on them as kids. Music was always around my house when I was a kid. When did you start playing music? Was music a part of your upbringing? Recently, Jon sat down with Breedlove to discuss the makings of his very musical life, The Native Heart’s forthcoming EP, and the unparalleled connection he has with his go-to guitar, a Breedlove Legacy Concertina.īreedlove Guitars (BG): To start, I wanted to get more of an understanding of how you got into music and Native Heart. And, when he’s not teaching or performing, he’s playing with musical ideas in his head, tinkering around with videography to accompany his original songs for The Native Heart(‘s) YouTube channel, or just playing his instruments for enjoyment. To say that an artist “lives and breathes” music is usually mere cliché, but when it comes to describing Breedlove’s April Featured Artist, Michigan-based guitarist Jon Torrence, one half of the husband-wife duo The Native Heart from Adrian, Michigan, it’s an uncommonly apt description.Īlong with writing and performing with his wife Julie Torrence as The Native Heart, Torrence works his days writing and teaching music to kids, as a teacher in a school district just over the Michigan-Ohio border in Bowling Green, Ohio. We sent Torrence one of our new Organic Collection Artista Concerto CE models and he created the fantastic unboxing video (above). Along with writing and performing with his wife Julie Torrence as The Native Heart, Torrence works his days writing and teaching music to kids, as a teacher in a school district just over the Michigan-Ohio border in Metamora, OH.