Joel Brogon

Everyone Welcome the new EP from Joel Brogon Coming 3/27/26 Palm Sunday Weekend Growing up gay in hardline evangelical churches meant learning early on that parts of who I was were unwelcome in the very spaces I depended on for nurture and support. Hiding that truth left spiritual wounds that have taken years to heal—and, if I’m honest, still need tending from time to time. I know I’m not alone in this. These quiet wounds are carried by many who grew up feeling “different” in churches that left little room for difference of any kind. For some, that pain led them to walk away from church entirely. For others—myself included—the path has been more complicated: years spent searching for spaces where faith and authenticity could coexist, sometimes finding deep joy and spiritual refuge, and other times encountering new forms of the same old hurt. These six songs were born out of that journey—wrestling with belief, naming the harm done in the name of faith, and slowly, sometimes defiantly, r...

I've always wanted to release some of my more personal "coming of age in a strict religious background" songs, and this season I am finally taking the opportunity to do it. I am hoping that I can put together an EP/Album of all my similar songs and release by Good Friday, but we'll see. “The Shadow of the Cross” is an amalgamation of my stories of growing up in deeply conservative rural churches while quietly carrying truths I knew would always stand in tension with strict doctrines and tightly held traditions. (Here's a YouTube link, but you can find it anywhere and everywhere you stream music.) Joel Brogon's The Shadow of the Cross  

Releasing worldwide May 23, 2025! Put on a Happy Face - your favorite Joel Brogon song is being released! By far my most requested song at gigs, "Put on a Happy Face"  is a lighthearted take on dealing with days that just don't go as planned.  I've already released it on Bandcamp - here's the link! https://joelbrogon.bandcamp.com/track/put-on-a-happy-face-acoustic-version  

" Trust the Trees" is a collection of three nature-based songs by Joel Brogon coming May 1st, 2024. Intentionally timed for release amidst Spring and the celebration of Earth Day, this project is meant to be an ode to our intrinsic bond with nature and a profound willingness to surrender to its guiding essence. Stories behind the songs: “Trust the Trees” The words “Trust the Trees" had been rolling around in my head for a while after a friend said them to me at a Winter Solstice gathering in 2021. I hadn’t really put much work into crafting a song around it but the thought of it was living in my head. Then, Uvalde (school shooting) happened. I was so shaken I couldn’t really even talk about it or much of anything else for several days and spent a lot of time sitting in silence in our back garden. Then one evening the line “we cannot be trusted, it’s time to trust the trees” came to me and the rest flowed from there. It was one of those rare occasions when a song was comp...

Trust the Trees Coming May 1st, 2024 "Trust the Trees" is a collection of three nature-based songs by Joel Brogon. Intentionally timed for release amidst Spring and the celebration of Earth Day, this project is meant to be an ode to our intrinsic bond with nature and a profound willingness to surrender to its guiding essence. In a world rife with conflict, injustice, and despair, the title track "Trust the Trees" urges us to seek solace and wisdom in the silent teachings of the natural world, especially when the human realm consistently fails to present any lasting, meaningful solutions. "Flowers on the Road" (released as a single on March 15, 2024) serves as a gentle reminder to cherish the small moments along our journey of self-discovery. In our quest to find our place in the world, we may come to realize that we belong exactly where we are. "I Can’t See the Moon'' was composed at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic and is ultimately a posi...

My new single for Spring “Flowers on the Road" serves as a gentle reminder to cherish the small moments along our journey of self-discovery. In our quest to find our place in the world, we may come to realize that we belong exactly where we are. “Flowers on the Road” will also be included on my upcoming project, “Trust the Trees” slated for release later this year. S tory behind the song: Every Spring while growing up in the 80’s in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas, my family would load up picnic baskets and ice chests and head north towards Kingsville for our annual “flower tour.” The wildflowers along Highway 77 were absolutely spectacular in those days. There were endless fields of bluebonnets, winecups, primroses and countless other types of wildflowers on either side of the road and the middle “island.” We’d drive along, stopping at the more impressive swaths of color until we wound up at an old picnic area near Riviera where we would stop for lunch.  This was the one rare occa...