Jon Boden

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Jon Boden
Jon Boden with Bellowhead at the Cambridge Folk Festival 2009
Background information
Birth nameJon Boden
Born (1977-03-17) 17 March 1977 (age 47)
GenresFolk music
OccupationMusician
WebsiteOfficial 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.

  1. ^ Design, White. "Jon Boden | About Jon - Bio". Jonboden.com. Archived from the original on 18 July 2015. Retrieved 3 June 2015.
  2. ^ Boden, Jon. "Jon Boden | About Jon - Articles". Jonboden.com. Archived from the original on 19 July 2015. Retrieved 3 June 2015.
  3. ^ "Fay Hield |". www.fayhield.com. Archived from the original on 18 February 2021. Retrieved 3 June 2015.
  4. ^ "A Folk Song A Day". www.afolksongaday.com. Retrieved 3 June 2015.
  5. ^ Design, White. "Jon Boden | Theatre Projects". Jonboden.com. Archived from the original on 19 July 2015. Retrieved 3 June 2015.