Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, United States (1977)
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Jon Boden is an English fiddle player and folk singer.
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Americana (UK)
January 31, 2022
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Located a few miles north of Reading in the beautiful Chilterns' countryside, Nettlebed Folk Club has been bringing the cream of folk musicians, both old and new, to its small village hall for the best part of half a century on Monday nights.
Those who still pine for the folk excesses of Bellowhead can take some comfort from Jon Boden's latest outfit. After a solo tour Jon Boden has got the old band back together and is taking new album Afterglow out on tour with The Remnant Kings, backed up by the string trio that is the Remnant Strings.
October was kind to us although Cecil Sharp House has many performance sized rooms this particular gig was pitched in the garden space. With the wall and trees of the garden as a fairy-light lit backdrop in the fading Autumn light, and with a bonfire lit in a large oil-drum brazier
On his first solo tour the erstwhile voice and frontman of Bellowhead, Jon Boden, has not lost his flair for the dramatic. There's a variety of stage lighting, and props: ragged looking speakers and decorative battered loud speakers as well as the tour image -Jon Boden as Icarus lifted on wings made from violins.
