Var Gallery Presents: Jason Burns and Eston Bennett

Jason Burns is a songwriter, singer, and guitarist from Milwaukee. Whether playing solo acoustic shows or turning things up with his band, Kid Elephant, Burns’ performances are full of honesty, energy, and heart. His songs live in the spaces within Americana where roots rock, folk, blues, and country overlap with a common thread of rhythm and soul woven throughout. Burns’ catalogue is a salty and sweet mixture of emotionally raw material, skillfully blended into tunes with strong hooks and infectious grooves. Intentionally sparse, no frills arrangements set the stage for his emotionally powerful songwriting and performances. Drawing on a broad range of influences from Tom Petty to Tom Waits, from Johnny Cash to John Lee Hooker, he serves up original music that is at once classic and contemporary, unmistakably American, yet somehow genreless.