Past Programs
Dance Music - 2008
John Spiers and Jon Boden (Repeat of 5/6/06)
03/03/2008
John Spiers and Jon Boden, winners of the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards ‘Best Duo’ for two out of the last 3 years, latest CD is simply called Songs.
On it, the powerful fiddle/melodeon/singing duo play a range of songs dating from the 17th Century to a version of a Tom Waits song that recasts it as a Victorian parlour ballad. Unafraid to play Morris dance pieces and other ‘less fashionable’ English musical styles with great verve, Spiers says ‘I’m a bit uncomfortable with the idea of anybody being a saviour of English music because I don’t think it needs salvation.’
