AN evening of live music from Jon and The Remnant Kings is coming to the Old Bakery Studios in Truro on Friday, September 19.

Jon Boden has become a stand out performer of traditional folk artists, but one whose repertoire extends far beyond the boundaries of the genre.

He is best known as the lead singer and main arranger of the progressive folk juggernaut Bellowhead who achieved a quarter of a million album sales, seven singles on the Radio 2 playlist and selling out hundreds of venues, notably the Royal Albert Hall.

Meanwhile in 2009, Jon founded his band The Remnant Kings, originally formed to perform the album ’Songs from the Floodplain’, the first in his post-apocalyptic trilogy of albums. The performances combined the post-oil concept of the album, with other songs that might survive the apocalypse.

In this genre busting mix, Jon Boden and The Remnant Kings performed concerts where folk songs, bach, pop and jazz all rubbed shoulders with Jon’s own songs. This was all augmented by the use on stage of two wax cylinder players, which played specially recorded material.

Reunited and relaunched to record the albums Afterglow in 2017, Rose In June’ (2019) and Last Mile Home (2021), they returned with their latest album Parlour Ballads – released in September 2024 - and delivering their unique brand of traditional folk played with post-apocalyptic swagger.

Live, Boden’s Waitsian parlour ballads and Napoleonic power-pop, are performed alongside the band’s fifteen-year back-catalogue of traditional and original songs and tunes.

The band combines a deep understanding of traditional music with musical audacity and theatrical brio and feature the enormous talents of Sam Sweeney (Bellowhead), Rob Harbron (Leveret), Ben Nicholls (Seth Lakeman Band), Sally Hawkins (Bellowhead) and the vocals and pedal-steel guitar of cult singer-songwriter M.G. Boulter.

To book tickets, visit: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/jon-boden-and-the-remnant-kings-in-concert-tickets-1316393581639