Bon Iver

    • Genre: Folk
    • Name: Justin Vernon
    • Born: April 30, 1981
    • Origin: Eau Claire, Wisconsin
    • Active: 2007 - present
    • Albums: 1
    • Label: Jagjaguwar
    • The name Bon Iver is French for good winter

  • The Bon Iver band is led by folk singer-songwriter Justin Vernon.

    On April 21, 2009, Billboard announced Bon Iver would perform at the 2009 Lollapalooza Festival at Grant Park in Chicago, Illinois in August 2009.

  • Career

    Bon Iver's debut album, For Emma, Forever Ago, was self-released in 2007 and created while Vernon spent 3-4 months hiding out in his father's Wisconsin cabin. In 2008, he signed a deal with the Jagjaguwar label who re-released the album.

  • Charity

    Vernon created a design for the Yellow Bird Project to help raise money for the women's shelter "Interval House", in Toronto. He also performed a live concert in 2008 to help raise money for the "Bolton Refuge House", another shelter in Wisconsin.Official Site: Bon Ivor T-Shirt designs

  • Releases

    • 2007: For Emma, Forever Ago
    • 2009: Blood Bank EP

  • Review Quotes

    • "Vernon gives a soulful performance full of intuitive swells and fades, his phrasing and pronunciation making his voice as much a purely sonic instrument as his guitar." -Pitchfork
    • '"The album evocatively conjures the loneliness of a long northern winter, placing Vernon's lovely songs in a distant, blurred vacuum of physical and emotional isolation. " -Onion A.V. Club
    • "Equal parts awe and nostalgia, hearing Vernon's muted strums and granular falsetto fade like spun sugar into breath vapor is like seeing the Grand Canyon for the first time." -Village Voice

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