Jacob Alon

Mackintosh Queen’s Cross | Saturday 6 December 2025 at 7.00pm

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Jacob Alon is a Scottish singer-songwriter with a profound gift for storytelling. Both intimate and devastatingly introspective, their music is touched by a rare timelessness. Drawing fair comparisons to artists such as Jeff Buckley and Rufus Wainwright, Alon’s sound cuts through the air with powerful and haunting vocals, intricate guitar playing, and pensive, poetic lyrics.

Jacob shares a new video for ‘Of Amber’, one of the many standout tracks on their debut album In Limerence which was released earlier this Spring to widespread critical acclaim. It was directed by Studio Island. The album was recorded in London and produced by Dan Carey.

It would be no exaggeration to suggest that In Limerence reset the button on British contemporary folk music. Jacob harnesses a lilting, otherworldly vocal, colourful story-telling, and fingerpicking patterns traced along the fretboard, but whilst they display all the classic folksy attributes, Jacob largely operates on a different plain entirely from the classic touchstones of what makes a typical folk artist. Darkly bittersweet and bleakly humorous. A very modern musician doing something timeless.