Decent review by Robin Denselow in today's Guardian of Jon's concluding concert at Cecil Sharp House.

Jon Boden's A Folk Song a Day, Cecil Sharp House, London

Robin Denselow guardian.co.uk, Monday 27 June 2011 19.30 BST
   
Jon Boden is an intriguing workaholic. He plays with two bands – the massively successful Bellowhead and the Remnant Kings – while also continuing as half of the inspiring folk duo Spiers and Boden. He clearly enjoys collaboration, yet thinks of himself "first and foremost as an unaccompanied singer". Over the last year, he has been trying to encourage social or communal singing by posting a different folk song on a website every day.

He celebrated the end of this extraordinary achievement with a special show in Cecil Sharp House. The hall was packed, but those expecting a mass singalong would have been disappointed – at least until the very end of the performance.

For the most part, Boden stuck to the traditional songs he has been singing on the web, starting with the Copper Family's rousing Hard Times of Old England. He occasionally sang unaccompanied, but for most of the show was backed by his own guitar, squeezebox or fiddle, or by the harmony vocals of the multi-instrumental Remnant Kings, whose inventive arrangements included a brave four-fiddle setting for Rigs of the Time. Then there were guest appearances from other singers, and sturdy performances from Peta Webb, Boden's partner Fay Hield, and the massed ranks of the Cecil Sharp House Community Choir.

He ended with material from his futuristic, self-written, solo album Songs from the Floodplain, and an emotional finale of Bright Phoebus in tribute to the great Mike Waterson who died last week. Now the audience were joining in at last, and Boden encouraged them to follow him to the bar for a furious late-night demonstration of what social singing is all about.