John originally hails from Saint Louis Missouri, just a few blocks up from the Mississippi and cut his teeth on that town's rhythm and blues and his Okie mama's singing. This funky start was drastically tempered early on by a nine-year stint in a Catholic seminary where silence and Gregorian Chant were his daily bread.

After leaving the brotherhood and armed only with his vow of poverty, John moved east to New England and pursued the path of an itinerant musician, playing in sundry bands and bad barrooms. It was during this time, he realized, that his audience could not understand Latin.

After lengthy and ill-advised retirement to conventionality, John has re-emerged with a new batch of songs, a gumbo stewed with many ingredients and always served up with his slightly skewed vision of life.

His CD, STARDUST BALLROOM was released in January, 1999.

He lives in the shadow of Mount Monadnock, Jaffrey, NH with his wife, Jane and two cats, Godzilla and Cannonball.

"High risk, beautiful songs to make you laugh and cry. Thoroughly unique in his style, John will draw you in and shock you with his insights." David Fishken, host, Acton Jazz Cafe

"Love your CD... very beautiful and revealing, sad and disarming, not a phony note in it. I'm inspired." Also "John Schindler's songs sound breezy and playful, but are deceptively powerful, peppered with startling phrases that always ring true. This is a songwriter who has looked long and hard at life." Geoff Bartley

"If you put Leonard Cohen in the middle of New Hampshire and made him a blue-collar kind of guy in love with his wife, he might sound a little like John Schindler. He wouldn't necessarily write any better than John, nor be any more thoughtful or witty--but he might be about as fun to listen to." Bob Franke

Stages where he has played as a solo or in some other incarnation:

WUMB's 2000 Boston Folk Festival

The Colonial Inn, Concord, Ma

Acton Jazz Cafe, Acton, MA

South Shore Folk Music Club, Kingston, Ma

The Stone Church, Newmarket, NH

The Cantab, Cambridge, MA

Wholly Note Coffee House, Peterborough, NH

The Center for the Arts in Natick, Natick, Ma

DelRossi's Trattoria, Dublin, NH

The Acoustic Cafe, Milford, NH

Club Passim, Cambridge, MA

The Grog, Newburyport, MA

Crossroads Coffeehouse, N.Andover, MA

Tootsie's, Nashville, TN

The Rose Garden Coffeehouse, Mansfield, Ma

The Mole's Eye, Brattleboro, VT

The Nameless Coffeehouse, Cambridge, MA

For booking and scheduling information, call (603) 532-6096 or write

76 North Street, Jaffrey, NH 03452 or E-mail: