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Jon Boden
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Jon Boden | |
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 Jon Boden with Bellowhead at the Cambridge Folk Festival 2009 | |
| Background information | |
| Birth name | Jon Boden |
| Born | 17 March 1977 |
| Genres | Folk music |
| Occupation | Musician |
| Website | Official site |
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.
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