Ian Jones doesn’t feel like he’s been anywhere in his 22 years, but he’s definitely going places.

As you read this, Jones, a graduate of Old Rochester Regional High School from Rochester, is on a 15-city tour through China as the substitute bass player for the band Skinny Pigeons.

As soon as he gets back on U.S. soil he’ll be heading to Bonnaroo, one of the country’s biggest music festivals, to play with his “full-time gig,” the Boston-based Grey Season.

“This is turning out to be the craziest summer in mine or Ben’s life,” said Jones, referring to Grey Season percussionist and Mattapoisett native Ben Burns.

The two friends are part of the five-piece band that has been steadily gaining momentum since Sippican Week first wrote about them in Dec. 2013.

At the time, the group was preparing to record its first album, “Time Will Tell You Well,” at the legendary Levon Helms Studios in Woodstock, New York with funds raised on Kickstarter.

“For us, that album was the culmination of the songs we’d been playing for a year and a half, two years. It was good to get it down and out,” said Jones.

In the year following the album's release, it’s gotten plenty of buzz. One music blog listed “Time Will Tell You Well” as it’s second favorite album of the year, a song from the album was in the top 10 songs of 2014 on the Sound of Boston blog and several songs have gotten radio play.

“Over the past year, we’ve really built a following for ourselves in Boston,” said Jones. “Now we’re trying to break out of the New England market.”

Burns is currently touring with another band, Honeysuckle, on the West Coast, but he, Jones and other three members of Grey Season are more often together than not.

Jones and Burns have shared a house in Allston with band mates and fellow Berklee College of Music graduates, Jon Mills, Chris "Gooch" Bloniarz and Matt Knelman, for the past three years. The situation generally works well, but it can be tight quarters sometimes, said Jones.

“When you have success … it’s easy to get along with each other,” he said. “[When you’re] paddling around in the doldrums, you tend to get on people’s nerves.”

The band’s recent shows and busy summer lineup may indicate that good things are on the horizon.

In March, the Grey Season was one of 11 bands chosen from a pool of 300 to play in the Berklee tent at the South By Southwest Music festival. Located in Austin, Texas the week-long smorgasbord of independent music garners attention from record labels, media and music fans.

It’s not exactly a paying gig (bands get a nominal $250 to play), but the band did some busking on the streets to help with finances. In the process, their music converted quite a few festival-goers to the band’s self-described “stinky rock & roll, timeless folk.”

“It’s more or less a big giant hang out. It was totally one of the best weeks of my life,” said Jones.

Getting to play Bonnaroo is an even bigger honor for the band. Last year, more than 90,000 people attended the four-day festival in Tennessee, and this year’s headliners include the likes of Billy Joel and Mumford & Sons.

Jones will be hopping off a plane from Hong Kong and heading straight for a van to make it to the concert in time.

After that, the Grey Season will play throughout the summer, including a festival in Brooklyn and several others in the Boston area.

Two more albums (the release dates are going to be a surprise) are also in the works as the band inches away from its Americana roots towards a stronger rock sound.

“I think that the sort of family-friendly song writing and the catchy melodies will stay the same,” Jones said. “The banjo country thing, it’ll still be there, but I don’t think we’re going to rely on it as heavily.”

But Jones doesn’t think their followers will be disappointed with the shift.

“I’ve never been a fan of going against your fans,” he said. “We get baby boomers, middle aged people, kids our age, kids younger than us. It means we’re doing something right.”

This summer is likely to be a defining moment for the still fledgling band, but as their album says, time will tell.

Jones is hopeful.

“You can sort of feel the momentum.”