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Jon Boden, the former Bellowhead frontman and 12-time BBC Folk Award winner has shared the third cut from his forthcoming album, ‘Afterglow’. ‘Bee Sting’ helps set the visual backdrop for the narrative of ‘Afterglow’ with Jon turning to his experiences of the infamous Lewes Bonfire Night for inspiration.

Johnny shares some his many highlights of this year’s FolkEast festival including The Young’uns, Jon Boden, Sam Kelly & The Lost Boys, Martin Carthy, Hughie Jones, Hannah Sanders and Ben Savage, LAU, Dan Walsh, Will Pound, Damien O’Kane and many more.

The 12-time BBC Folk Award winner and ex-Bellowhead frontman, Jon Boden has just shared his new single ‘All The Stars Are Coming Out Tonight’ (also our Song of the Day). Taken from his new solo album ‘Afterglow’ which is out October 6th via Hudson Records.

Newly signed to Hudson Records, Jon Boden announces the release of his new album ‘Afterglow’, a companion release to his 2009 album ‘Songs from the Floodplain’. Listen to his first single Moths in the Gas Light, our Song of the Day.

Watch a new series of videos from Jon Boden as he talks about the instruments he plays. He’s about to head on off on solo tour on which he’ll also be “dropping in a few sneak previews” of some of the songs from his new album “Afterglow”.

Jon Boden is announced as Guest Curator for Cambridge Folk Festival 2017 and, along with The Remnant Kings, will perform their first live show in several years with a one-off preview performance on the festival’s main stage of material from the brand-new Jon Boden album to be released in autumn 2017.

Jon Boden compiles The Ultimate Guide To English Folk, a lavish two-disc primer designed to appeal to experienced folkies and newbies alike. It is not the first such collection, but it is probably the most wide-ranging, lovingly compiled and inventively sequenced. One of the most important messages to take from this compilation is that while folk music in England is something of an extended family, it is by no means …

The third London Folk & Roots Festival kixks off this month with acts such as Newton Faulkner, Jon Boden, Mick Flannery, Sarah Jarosz, Tony Joe White, Eliza Carthy, Michael McGoldrick, Maz O’Connor and many more. Listen to our spotify playlist preview.

British folk heroine Kate Rusby and former Bellowhead frontman Jon Boden are among the first headline acts announced to appear at the Gate To Southwell Festival next June, and reduced price tickets are now available.

Read our Artist of the Month interview with Jon Boden whose debut solo album ‘Painted Lady’ get’s a special 10th Anniversary re-issue this month via Navigator Records. Plus watch his new video for ‘Get A Little Something’.

Jon Boden is our Artist of the Month for September. The 10th Anniversary Edition of Painted Lady is released on 30th September by Navigator Records, read our album review and watch the new animated video for his latest single ‘All Hang Down’.

Blair Dunlop is delighted to announce he will be opening for former Bellowhead frontman Jon Boden on selected dates of Jon’s fourteen date November 2016 UK solo tour.