Jon Boden
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Jon Boden with Bellowhead at the Cambridge Folk Festival 2009
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Jon Boden |
| Born |
17 March 1977 Chicago, United States |
| Genres | Folk Music |
| Occupation(s) | Musician |
| Associated acts | Spiers and Boden, Bellowhead |
| Website | Official site |
| Notable instruments | |
| vocals, fiddle, concertina, acoustic guitar, percussion, double bass, drums, melodeon, bagpipes, banjo, mandolin, harmonium, electric guitar | |
Jon Boden (born 17 March 1977) is a singer, composer and musician, best known as lead singer and main arranger of Bellowhead. His first instrument is the fiddle and he is a leading proponent of "English traditional fiddle style" 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.
To date Jon Boden has been the recipient of 11 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, more than any other musician.
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 to many other albums as a fiddler, singer and guitarist, most notably two albums with Fay Hield & The Hurricane Party.
In 2010 he launched an ambitious project to record and deliver A Folk Song A Day on line, aiming to inspire others to build a repertoire of songs and engage in social singing. All 365 songs are now available on iTunes, Spotify and YouTube, as well as on the www.afolksongaday.com website.
Boden holds a master's degree in Musical Theatre and has worked on numerous, prestigious theatrical productions, including two plays with the Royal Shakespeare Company. In 2012 Jon 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.
As a composer Boden’s output has grown increasingly diverse, crossing over into classical, choral, dance, pop, film and television.
Boden was born in Chicago in 1977 but grew up in Winchester, England, where he attended Henry Beaufort School and Peter Symonds College. He has a BA in Medieval Studies from Durham University and a master's degree in Composition for Musical Theatre from the London College of Music.
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