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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.
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Albums
Painted Lady
Popular Songs
- We Wish You a Merry Christmas
- The Holly Bears a Berry
- Silent Night
- We Three Kings
- The Twelve Days of Christmas
- O Come, All Ye Faithful
- O Little Town of Bethlehem
- Here We Go A-Wassailing
- While Shepherds Watched
- Once in Royal David's City
- God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen
- Bright Morning Star
- Ding Dong Merrily on High
- The Seven Joys of Mary
- Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day
- Joy to the World
- Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
- Deck the Halls With Boughs of Holly
- Good King Wenceslas
- The First Nowell
- Wassail, Wassail
- Lullay, Lullow
- John Kanaka
- Johnny's Gone to Hilo
- Rolling Down to Old Maui
- The Alabama
- A Sailor's Life
- Roll the Wood Pile Down
- Fire Maringo
- The Whitby Lad