THE man who is best known as the lead singer and main arranger of Bellowhead will be appearing at Stratford-upon-Avon’s Royal Shakespeare Theatre for one night only early in the new year.
John Boden, who is one of the outstanding performers of traditional music of his generations, will be at the RST on Sunday, January 22, 2017.
In one capacity or another, he has won 11 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards. Though widely respected for his role as a highly accomplished interpreter of traditional song, Boden has a musical repertoire which extends far beyond the boundaries of just one genre.
Now that the exuberant big band Bellowhead, which Jon fronted, has now come to a close, he has decided to explore a more simple, pared down sound.
Jon’s 12 years as part of Bellowhead saw them notch up a quarter of a million album sales, land seven singles on the BBC Radio 2 playlist, and sell out hundreds of venues and festival stages. In 2015 Jon announced he wanted to move on – and so Bellowhead performed an emotional but brilliant final show on May 1, 2016.
No stranger to the Royal Shakespeare Company, Jon previously composed the scores for the company’s productions of The Winter’s Tale (2013) and The Merchant of Venice (2011).
Boden said: “"It was a real honour to work as a composer on two shows for the RSC, and I'm so excited to be coming back to the space, albeit in a very different capacity! The theatre is such a beautiful space and there's always something magical about performing in Stratford.”
The concert will start at 7.30pm.
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