Jon Fletcher's solo debut album, released in May 2007. The focus is on Jon's songs, voice and guitar, with arrangements featuring double bass / bass guitar from brother and long-time collaborator Colin Fletcher (also of Van Eyken); drummer Tom Hooper; harmonium, flute and whistles from Kate Garrett, and strings from fiddler Jane Griffiths, with Kathy Whitaker, Giles Lewin (Bellowhead/ The Carnival Band) and cellist Barney M Brown (The Imagined Village). Largely recorded live in the studio with minimal overdubs- the bulk of the recording took place over a bank holiday weekend- A Month in the Summer draws on influences including English folk, blues and jazz , ranging in mood from the atmospheric folk of Willow Song and trad standard The Cuckoo, the jazzy swing of Hold my Breath and the widescreen nostalgia of Hold Back the Tide. Jon has described the album as the soundtrack to “the perfect English summer I never had either”. "Gently attractive; a definite grower" fRoots "an album with a sense of it's self. Fletcher has an edge to his voice that adds to the sense of drama, almost with an actor's quality as he captures the emphasis within the words and tune" FATEA "Draws on the best of English troubadour traditions, with beautiful fingerstyle guitar and heartfelt songs" OXFORD TIMES "The arrangements on all the songs are terrific; strings, double bass and drums, and flute and harmonica making occasional appearances, but all the while you are listening to that voice, and th