Spiers and Boden
Spiers and Boden are an English folk duo. John Spiers plays the melodeon and concertina, while Jon Boden sings and plays fiddle and guitar and keeps the rhythm on a stomp box. They helped start the folk group Bellowhead.
They began playing together in 1999. Their first duo album, Through & Through, came out in 2001. In 2002 they worked as session musicians on Eliza Carthy’s Anglicana and toured with her band The Ratcatchers. Their second album, Bellow, released in 2003, won attention for its traditional tunes rooted in Morris dancing. They won the Horizon Award in the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards in 2003 and the Best Duo award in 2004.
They perform with fiddle, guitar, squeezeboxes, a stomp box, and both sing. They released Tunes and Songs in 2005, Vagabond in 2008, and The Works in 2011, an album of re-recorded tracks from their five duo albums with various guest artists.
In 2014 they announced that their tour would be their last for the foreseeable future. In August 2020, they announced they would play again as a duo and performed online for the Folk On Foot festival.
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