Spiers & Boden - The Midsummer Tour
After a triumphant 2022 reunion tour with folk big-band Bellowhead (including a sold-out performance at the Royal Albert Hall) founder-members John Spiers and Jon Boden return, as their original duo Spiers & Boden.
The duo will be touring venues in the UK this June for evenings of summer-infused English folk song and dance music.
The pair will play a concert at the Chipping Norton Theatre on Wednesday 21 June. Tickets are priced at £23 and can be purchased by visiting https://www.chippingnortontheatre.com/whats-on/spiers-and-boden or calling 01608 642 350.
A spokesperson for the musicians said: “Since 2001 Spiers & Boden have been taking their unique brand of powerful, rousing folk music to audiences throughout Britain and around the world.
“Fans of the hit BBC show Death in Paradise will now be familiar with the distinctive sound of Boden’s voice and Spiers’s melodeon through the new Bellowhead theme tune for 2023 spin-off show Beyond Paradise, which has recently been commissioned for a second series.”
Tim Key (executive producer of the show) said: “I have become obsessed with bringing a music identity to Beyond Paradise. We have worked hard to bring a modern, folk influence to the show, making a unique sound which I am really excited about. And getting Bellowhead on board was amazing.”
Bellowhead, with Jon and John, also provide the theme music for Radio 4’s The Archers each Sunday.
For their Midsummer tour this June, Spiers & Boden will focus on their summery material, drawing on traditional seasonal songs and that archetypal sound of summer - the English Morris tune.
Jon and John have been described in The Guardian as the finest instrumental duo on the traditional scene. The duo reformed in 2021 after a seven-year hiatus, arriving with a brand-new album ‘Fallow Ground’ which went on to reach number 3 in the Official Folk Albums Chart and was a Mojo top 10 folk album of 2021.
Review information:
‘Exquisitely played – the pair are still the dons.’ The Observer
‘This is traditional folk delivered with modern verve.’ EDS
