Remnant Kings

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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 as a fiddler, singer and guitarist, to three albums with Fay Hield& The Hurricane Party. [3] In 2021 Boden launched Colourchord system, an experimental system for promoting social singing using simple four-part harmony, funded by Awards For All.

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Kingslayer is one of the best damage-dealing Traits available, outranked only by Executionersimply because you need to be able to actually critically hit before Critical Damage gives any benefit. In 2013 Boden joined the Sacconi Quartet to perform Elvis Costello and the Brodski Quartet's Juliet Letters at The Bristol Proms. In 2015 they repeated their performance at The Sacconi Quartet's own Chamber Music Festival in Folkestone and at the Lichfield festival. [10] In addition he led a regular choir workshop at the Sidmouth festival and edited a collection of folk songs in Faber’s community choir series. At the start of 2013, Boden was commissioned by Jonathan Reekie, the musical director of Aldeburgh Music to create the show based on Benjamin Britten's The Ballad Of Little Musgrave And Lady Barnard. It was part of a wider global programme of events to celebrate Britten's centenary. The resulting piece used Britten's setting of the ballad for male voice choir, interspersed with five ‘interpolations’ composed by Boden, with lyrics co-written by him and Mary Hampton. The soloists were Mary Hampton, Tim van Eyken, Rob Harbron, James Findlay and The Peterborough Male Voice Choir. The production was directed by David Edwards and was staged at Snape Maltings Aldeburgh, Peterborough Cathedral and The Sage, Gateshead.His marriage to Jennie Bailey ended in divorce. He is survived by their three sons, James, William and Joseph, and his mother.

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They released three further albums for Fellside, Bellow in 2003 and the companion discs, Songs and Tunes both released in 2005. Spiers & Boden then signed to Navigator Records releasing the themed Vagabond in 2008 and retrospective album The Works in 2011. The latter marked their 10th anniversary as a recording duo. They toured that year and collaborators from The Works joined them on stage, with a finale at London's Shepherd's Bush Empire featuring many guests.

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Songs From The Floodplain, Afterglow and Last Mile Home form a post-climate-change trilogy of albums. In 2019 Boden provided music and lyrics for a touring production of the children book The Pirate Cruncher. As Boden explained in a BBC Radio 3 essay, [7] he views the prospect of a post-industrial world without gas or oil as sitting in harmony with the relevance of folk music and social singing. Jon Boden on the Future of Folk Music & Social Singing | FRUK". Folkradio.co.uk. 5 December 2014 . Retrieved 30 August 2016. Paul’s early orchestral and choral work were crucial in defining his approach to folk music: he brought his musical training to his folk music arrangements and had a preference for performing with others in bands rather than as a solo performer.

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Boden holds a master's degree in Composition for Theatre [5] and has worked on theatrical productions, including two plays with the Royal Shakespeare Company. In 2012 he 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. In 2021 Boden released Last Mile Home, the third and final album in his Floodplain Trilogy. A Folk Song A Day [ edit ] In 2017 Boden released Afterglow, a narrative concept album following on from Songs From The Floodplain and the second in a prospective trilogy of post-climate change concept albums. Design, White. "Jon Boden | About Jon - Bio". Jonboden.com. Archived from the original on 18 July 2015 . Retrieved 3 June 2015. Remnant King gigs were also notable for singing sessions organised after the show, either within the venues or at nearby pubs. This saw the band congregate around a table with various audience members, all singing folk songs unaccompanied. The idea was later developed with Bellowhead with the band engaging in regular after show sessions on their tours. Boden discussed the importance of these events in this key-note speech for the English Folk Expo in 2014. [8]Music To Move To". Musictomoveto.co.uk. Archived from the original on 21 February 2015 . Retrieved 3 June 2015. Paul continued his academic interest in music, achieving a master’s degree in traditional music at Newcastle University, then becoming a visiting tutor on its folk degree course. He was fascinated to discover that folk songs sung by two of his distant relatives, Marina Russell and Edith Sartin, had been collected in Dorset in the early 20th century: Paul researched and recorded their songs. The Akari never meant to face the Nui themselves. They awaited a challenger, the one who would usher in the Age of Reconstruction. He worked on many musical projects and in 2017 made new arrangements for a production of Peter Bellamy’s folk opera The Transports, which toured the country to critical acclaim, leading to a Radio 3 broadcast and a CD the following year. He was much admired by fellow musicians: Bryony Griffith described him as “musically intelligent, inventive, reliable and fun”.