Jon Boden and the Remnant Kings (Sunday)

Jon Boden was born in Chicago in 1977, grew up in Winchester, graduated in Mediaeval Studies from Durham University and since becoming a parent, has settled in the South Yorkshire dales.

Jon has released several highly acclaimed albums with Bellowhead as well as with the equally feted traditional duo, Spiers & Boden (2008). He has also recorded and performed with Eliza Carthy on one of her Mercury Prize nominated albums.

Jon has toured internationally with Bellowhead,(including an appearance at the Gate To Southwell in 2008), performed on Later with Jools Holland and also made two televised appearances at the BBC 2008 Proms. Additionally, Jon has composed several theatre scores, most recently for ‘The Merchant of Venice’ at the RSC’s Statford-upon-Avon Theatre as well as for ‘Hamlet’ at The Globe (2008).

In the wake if the fantastically successful ‘A Folk Song A Day’ project (which reached number one in the iTunes music podcast charts in its first week) Bellowhead’s lead singer brings his motley crew of post-apocalyptic folk survivalists to showcase just a few of the 365 folk songs from the on-going project. Lively new arrangements of traditional material will weave in and out of Boden’s ‘Songs From The Floodplain’ – his critically acclaimed album set in a dystopian future.

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