About

The Swedish American forever travelling troubadour and activist Jacques Labouchere is unquestionably a pioneer of true Americana folk music in Scandinavia. His independent work ethic combined with an impressive body of live performances set him apart from his indie contemporaries. Perhaps more poignantly his empathetic songwriting of heart-wrenching and compassionate life-stories mark him as the last of a dying breed of artists in the current nmusic industry where a photo of someone is worth more than a musician reaching out to connect emotionally with his audience. Jacques can confidently claim to have done the latter. 

Raised on the U.S. East Coast and a born wanderer, Jacques took his guitar with him through the Appalachians to Boston and Washington, London, and Los Angeles in his youth and then finally Gothenburg, Sweden where he settled down and started a family. As an emboldened flâneur Jacques was schooled in the bitter reality of always being a stranger.

Often alienated by language and struggling to find work, he constantly and maniacally played the streets daily to make ends meet, such was once also the case in Gothenburg: before well-known local musicians approached

him wanting to make music together and support him as a band. Labouchere has long been a proud contributor to his local music scene and community, offering his veteran advice to young Swedish artists a helping to book and manage and give them a platform for touring and releasing music abroad. 

 Over the course of the last 15 years, Jacques has released 4 full length albums, numerous singles, and toured throughout the US and EU. His most recent overseas adventure was his appearance at the internationally renowned folk music festival, Folk Alliance, in Kansas City, Missouri for which he received a grant from the Swedish Arts Council to make the journey there. He was welcomed to perform there in a room hosted by fellow songwriter Brad Lauretti, aka This Frontier Needs Heroes, for The Stetson Kennedy Foundation. During the course of the 5-day event he helped Brad hand out hundreds if not thousands of pamphlets about the Stetson Kennedy Songwriter’s residency program. Together they spread awareness about the life and works of Stetson Kennedy who was a close friend to folk legend Woody Guthrie who infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan and exposed their secrets to the authorities.

Jacques Labouchere has opened for acts such as Arlo Guthrie, Quilt (members of Woods & Olden Yolk), This Frontier Needs Heroes, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Daniel Norgren, Den Stora Vilan and José Gonzalez (Junip). He has toured extensively playing 100's of gigs and festivals in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, UK, Holland, Germany, Spain, Switzerland, Italy, and USA. Germany has taken to him and since January 2016 and Labouchere has toured the country six times. 

Jacques will release the 2nd single, "No Man's Gonna Stop Me!", off of his upcoming 5th album, on Saturday September 16th with an accompanying performance at Second City Festival in Gothenburg.

Labouchere’s upcoming 5th album will be released in early 2024.