Jon Boden

Jon has been a major name in English folk music for over twenty years. As one half of Spiers & Boden, lead singer of the mighty Bellowhead, his own successful career as a soloist, and with Jon Boden & The Remnant Kings and Jon Boden & The Remnant Strings, he has more BBC Folk Awards than any other artist. Jon performed in the Hollywood movie About Time and sang/played the theme tunes of both the BBC Radio 2 Folk show and The Archers. His place as a respected singer songwriter for both theatre and the folk scene, with his soon-to-be-released the third and final album, Last Mile Home, in his post-apocalyptic trilogy, Jon is a musical force to be reckoned with. Jon, together with John Spiers, also did a stint in The Ratcatchers, the backing band for Eliza Carthy in the mid-noughties. So he has a long association and friendship with Eliza that has led naturally to the newly launched Wassail project.