EFDSS News

Ahead of his show here on Friday 1 March with The Remnant Kings (Sam Sweeney, Paul Sartin, Rob Harbron and Rick Foot), we find out about Jon Boden's music, his inspirations, and plans for the year ahead.

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Describe your music?
Survivalist post-oil folkapocalyptica.

Musical influences?
Peter Bellamy, Tom Waits, Kate Bush

Career highlights?
There have been quite a few but playing the Roundhouse in Camden with Bellowhead last year was pretty cool.

What was the first tune you learnt to play?
Merrily Kissed the Quaker

Most recent discovery?
Kathleen Ferrier

Who we should look out for in 2013?
Fay Hield and the Full English tour. And I’m not just saying that...

The future?
Spiers & Boden will be doing the ‘Backyard Tour’ in April, then Bellowhead will be playing at Kew Gardens amongst other places during the summer and undertaking another big tour in the Autumn. I’m also hoping to curate a weekend festival of musical Apocalyptica in 2014. Early days though.

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Jon Boden & The Remnant Kings at Cecil Sharp House in 2011

EFDSS News

19-06-2013 - New vacancies

17-06-2013 - Folk Educators Group Meeting

14-06-2013 - The Full English hits the airwaves

12-06-2013 - World’s biggest free digital archive of English traditional folk music and dance tunes to go live

11-06-2013 - A Celebration of Graeme Miles

03-06-2013 - Access all areas: improving access at Cecil Sharp House

29-05-2013 - Support for touring and performances: City Music Foundation

28-05-2013 - Using The Full English

22-05-2013 - Recording The New Penguins

22-05-2013 - Blowzabella Anniversary

17-05-2013 - Sound and audio visual collections temporarily unavailable

10-05-2013 - Win tickets to The Full English Digital Archive Launch

26-04-2013 - Opportunity to tender: catering at Cecil Sharp House

16-04-2013 - Folk Nations - a musical conversation at the Southbank Centre

28-03-2013 - The Full English Tour: line up unveiled

28-03-2013 - Volunteer with EFDSS

14-03-2013 - Exhibition: Mummers, Maypoles and Milkmaids

01-03-2013 - Maz O’Connor awarded a BBC Fellowship

27-02-2013 - Radio Folks, featured in EDS magazine

26-02-2013 - Folk Educators in Derby, featured in EDS magazine

25-02-2013 - Playford Liberation Front, featured in EDS magazine

20-02-2013 - New edition of the Sword Dance Bibliography

18-02-2013 - Cecil Sharp House featured in the Bible of British Taste

15-02-2013 - Sam Lee writes about another side of English folk

12-02-2013 - EFDSS at Folk Alliance 2013

24-01-2013 - EFDSS awarded Arts Council England capital grant

21-01-2013 - Spotlight England on The Wireless

18-01-2013 - EFDSS and the British Music Experience present...

18-01-2013 - Spotlight England preview concerts in London

15-01-2013 - Martin Carthy featured on Desert Island Discs

15-01-2013 - The Estella Canziani Post-Graduate Bursary for Research

15-01-2013 - Music sculptor's solar powered harp used on Björk tour

15-01-2013 - Project Announcement: Kolkata Music Residency

13-12-2012 - Fay Hield Commission to Create New Work From The Full English Archive

10-12-2012 - Whapweasel

10-12-2012 - Twelve Months of Folk Festivals

10-12-2012 - Christmas Music

26-11-2012 - When Dylan Met The London Folk

21-11-2012 - Complimentary drink when dining at Côte Brasserie Camden for EFDSS audiences at Cecil Sharp House

16-11-2012 - Winter/Spring Concert Series: January – April 2013

05-10-2012 - Changes to the Live Music Act 2012

27-09-2012 - Rapper - The Miners' Sword Dance of North East England

09-08-2012 - Announcement: Creative Artist Residencies

22-08-2011 - World Event Young Artists seeks cultural team GB for 2012

Archive News

20-05-2013 - Temporary phone disruption at Cecil Sharp House

20-05-2013 - Temporary phone disruption at Cecil Sharp House

08-05-2013 - Pride And Prejudice: Having A Ball

29-04-2013 - Songlines Music Awards Prize Draw

22-04-2013 - Win a family ticket to May in a Day!

An interview with Jon Boden

19-02-2013