Spiers & Boden have been at the forefront of the English traditional folk scene for 25 years both as aground breaking duo and as founder members of folk phenomenon Bellowhead.
After a seven year hiatus to concentrate on their Universal Records-signed big band Bellowhead, Spiers & Boden returned in 2021 with the critically acclaimed album Fallow Ground (Hudson Records). They have been taking their brand of high octane, no nonsense acoustic folk song and music to packed UK venues ever since.
Described by The Guardian as ‘the finest instrumental duo on the traditional scene’, Spiers & Boden first rocketed onto the music scene in 2001, quickly winning a clutch of BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards. They went on to become one of the best loved duos on the English folk scene and beyond. Fallow Ground marked their return as a duo.
It is an album bursting with ideas as well as a new-found confidence to let the material speak for itself.
‘It’s all exquisitely played – the pair are still the dons.’ – The Observer
‘Boden’s impassioned singing brings fresh life to little-heard songs, along with the perfectly balanced pairing of his fiddle with Spiers’s melodeon.’ – The Scotsman *****
‘This is traditional folk delivered with modern verve’ – EDS
Ticket holders for the event are invited to attend a free workshop, Colourchord, which can booked at the ticket link.
Colourchord is a harmony-singing system developed by Jon Boden, with the support of funding from Awards For All, which allows any group of singers to sight-sing in four part harmony regardless of experience, using colour-coded lyric-sheets rather than musical notation.
Jon will provide printed resources for use by the participants.
The workshop will begin at 6.54pm and will last for 30 minutes.
