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Jon Boden
Jon Boden with Bellowhead at the Cambridge Folk Festival 2009
Background information
Birth name
Jon Boden
Born
(1977-03-17) 17 March 1977 (age 47)
Genres
Folk music
Occupation(s)
Musician
Website
Official site
Musical artist
Jon Boden (born 17 March 1977) is a singer, composer and musician, best known as lead singer and main arranger of Bellowhead.[1] His first instrument is the fiddle and he is a proponent of "English traditional fiddle style"[2] and also of "fiddle singing", both of which he employed in Bellowhead, in the duo Spiers & Boden, and previously as a member of Eliza Carthy’s Ratcatchers.
Boden has been the recipient of 11 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, more than any other musician.[citation needed] He was awarded honorary doctorates by Durham University and the Open University in 2019.
Boden also fronts his own band the Remnant Kings, put together in 2009 to perform his post-apocalyptic song cycle Songs From The Floodplain. He has also made contributions as a fiddler, singer and guitarist, to three albums with Fay Hield & The Hurricane Party.[3]
In 2010 he launched a project to record and deliver A Folk Song A Day[4] on line, aiming to inspire others to build a repertoire of songs and engage in social singing.
Boden holds a master's degree in Composition for Theatre[5] and has worked on theatrical productions, including two plays with the Royal Shakespeare Company. In 2012 he was commissioned to create a stage show based on The Ballad Of Little Musgrave And Lady Barnard as part of the Benjamin Britten centenary celebrations.
^Design, White. "Jon Boden | About Jon - Bio". Jonboden.com. Archived from the original on 18 July 2015. Retrieved 3 June 2015.
^Boden, Jon. "Jon Boden | About Jon - Articles". Jonboden.com. Archived from the original on 19 July 2015. Retrieved 3 June 2015.
^"Fay Hield |". www.fayhield.com. Archived from the original on 18 February 2021. Retrieved 3 June 2015.
^"A Folk Song A Day". www.afolksongaday.com. Retrieved 3 June 2015.
^Design, White. "Jon Boden | Theatre Projects". Jonboden.com. Archived from the original on 19 July 2015. Retrieved 3 June 2015.
JonBoden (born 17 March 1977) is a singer, composer and musician, best known as lead singer and main arranger of Bellowhead. His first instrument is...
Spiers and Boden are an English folk duo. John Spiers plays melodeon and concertina, while JonBoden sings and plays fiddle and guitar while stamping...
announced their intention to go their separate ways following a decision by JonBoden to step down as frontman. Bellowhead played their final gig at Oxford...
JonBoden may refer to: John Boden (cricketer) (1848–1928), English cricketer John Boden (footballer) (1882–1946), English footballer Johnnie Boden (born...
Dance and Song Society, and Mainly Norfolk, the song was recorded by JonBoden and Oli Steadman for inclusion in their respective lists of daily folk...
concerts are greeted by capacity crowds. The Unthanks and John Spiers and JonBoden had successful performances there in their early careers, while Eliza...
Kimber's Men, Todd Rundgren, Don Sineti, Stan Rogers, The Longest Johns, and JonBoden. Its melody has also been used, in its entirety as well as in part, as...
and England rugby player. 2014 Six Nations Player of the Tournament. JonBoden Folk singer and former lead singer and main arranger for Bellowhead. Andy...
from the Floodplain is JonBoden's second solo album. The folk songs are set in a future, post-apocalyptic United Kingdom. JonBoden (vocals, fiddle, guitars...
Bell with Neil McSweeney, it has released records by Karine Polwart, JonBoden, Sam Sweeney, The Furrow Collective, Bellowhead, The Young'uns and others...
programme called "30 Years of Fellside". Three of their acts, John Spiers & JonBoden, Nancy Kerr & James Fagan, and Kirsty McGee were nominated for BBC Folk...
performers of later generations including Damien Barber, Oli Steadman, and JonBoden. Peter Bellamy was born in Bournemouth, England, and spent his formative...
Award: Levellers Venue: The Brewery, London Folk Singer of the Year: JonBoden Best Duo: Show of Hands Best Group: Lau Best Album: Hill of Thieves by...
through the regeneration of English folk clubs." Along with her ex-partner JonBoden, Hield helped to run two folk clubs – Royal Traditions (Dungworth) and...
2019-06-25. Archived from the original on 2021-11-02. Retrieved 2021-11-02. "JonBoden's A Folk Song a Day – review". the Guardian. 2011-06-27. Retrieved 2022-11-27...
song publicised by Mudcat, and Mainly Norfolk, the song was recorded by JonBoden and Oli Steadman for inclusion in their respective lists of daily folk...
community choir based in Andover, Hampshire, in 2001. In 2004 John Spiers and JonBoden invited Sartin and Kirkpatrick to join their new 11-piece band Bellowhead...
song publicised by Mudcat, and Mainly Norfolk, the song was recorded by JonBoden and Oli Steadman for inclusion in their respective lists of daily folk...
Bob Malone[better source needed] Ash Grunwald[better source needed] JonBoden uses "a large wooden box containing a microphone and made to sound like...
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