OXFORD: O'Reilly Theatre

Monday 14th February, 2011

8:00pm

Event information

In the wake if the fantastically successful 'A Folk Song A Day' project (which reached number one in the iTunes music podcast charts in its first week) Bellowhead’s lead singer brings his motley crew of post-apocalyptic folk survivalists to showcase just a few of the 365 folk songs from the on-going project. Lively new arrangements of traditional material will weave in and out of Boden's 'Songs From The Floodplain' - his critically acclaimed album set in a dystopian future.

The band line-up includes fellow Bellowhead multi-instrumentalists Sam Sweeney and Paul Sartin plus concertina virtuoso Rob Harbron and double bass maestro Rick Foot. Also making a return appearance will be Eric and Edith, the two wax cylinder players that joined the band to great acclaim in their 2010 tour. Songs old, new and from the not too distant future.

Following the gig the band will lead a singing session with the audience. They will record a rendition of a folk song (advance notice of which song will be given!) and that song will be posted on the A Folk Song a Day podcast the following morning.

Boden’s voice is... “the most potent weapon of mass seduction to have hit the scene in decades” (Stirrings)