Steve Bonham
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"Imagine Bill Bryson meets Woody Guthrie meets Don Quixote!"​ 
Steve Bonham is a storyteller, a published author, an inveterate traveller, for decades a songwriter, performer and musician, and an award-winning psychologist. Born in Derbyshire, England, Steve studied psychology and philosophy at university. He has recorded more than 10 albums; written two musicals; and several books including his latest: A Beautiful Broken Dream. He is the author of the Vagabond Philosopher blog and proud member of  The Long Road
Creating the music that ​delivers your story.
Artisan music for your film, TV, advert, other sync or visual media production, or theatre production.

Coming Soon !
The Long Road
Order your American Wilderness Odyssey: The Companion today.
Find out the story of the songs, the band, and the characters we met on the road.
Companion includes a FREE download code for 15-song digital album.
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Moonshine? Take a few simple ingredients and conjure up some raw spirit... Take Americana, folk, country blues, the spirit of the trail, the hobo and the outlaw. Take three guys with a 100 years of performing all over the world between them and a mad passion to renew this beautiful dirt music.

Interview with the legendary DJ Lee Williams click here

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Going Live! at the Festival of The Artisan
www.festivaloftheartisan.co.uk/boxoffice.html
​The festival, supported by Arts Council England, will feature two evening Headline Concerts and an afternoon concert that will showcase some of the very best talent in UK acoustic music and represent the broad spectrum of what makes this music ‘artisan’ –notably inspiration, authenticity, skills and a deep love of the sources from which it is drawn. It will be streamed live from the beautiful Venture Theatre in Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire.
 
Leading the line-up is Steve Bonham and The Long Road, the band behind the ‘Artisan Music’ concept who have story-telling and the spirit of adventure at their heart. They will be accompanied by other exciting talents including: past BBC Radio 2 Folk Award winners Blair Dunlop and Bella Hardy, founder of the legendary R Cajun Chris Hall and the Lil’ Roosters, and highly regarded English folk singer Elaine Davidson. 
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Steve Bonham and The Long Road  have gone back to the source to make music born of rediscovery, reinvention and reimagining. The outcome? A year-long mission exploring the moonshine, myth and madness of America through a collection of songs to be progressively released as 4 EPs   And now comes the 3rd: Out of The Darkness
Out of The Darkness 
released late October2020. The tracks which were recorded in an intense 8 day session at Woodworm Studios in Oxfordshire in January. All the songs are written by Steve or in partnership with Kev and Chris. All the instruments were played by the band creating what we feel is an incredible sense of togetherness and vibe on each song.
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Arts Council England support for Steve Bonham and The Long Road !
We are truly honoured and delighted to receive Arts Council England support  to enable us to explore further the myth and moonshine of America through writing, and recording  new material based upon our commitment to Artisan music and to make a short documentary about the same
Renegade Americana for the outlaw in us all

Steve Bonham performances

Look for solo, duo and whole band performances from Steve Bonham with his great compadres; Chris 'the Bishop' Lydon and the 'Big Man' Kev Moore.

Also Steve appears a book and arts festivals combining his poetry, songs and stories 
Latest Podcast
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STOP PRESS  - A Beautiful Broken Dream available with two free downloads HERE
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The Girl With The Rattlesnake Heart
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Reliance
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A Beautiful Broken Dream
Two new collections of songs.
​Renegade Americana! Raw and gutsy, plaintive and gentle, it’s singular music, part Americana, part roots, and something that speaks to us all. ​
A unique and personal exploration in words and music of the myth of America, and a universal journey of self-discovery.​​
​Wide brimmed hat. Long dark coat. Guitar slung on back. 21 years on the road. A 100,000 miles and half a thousand hotel rooms. From the Berlin Wall to Atlas Mountains, from Sahara Desert to the streets of Hong Kong: a memory brewed in the long simmering soup of people and place. A man who has learned to watch and to listen, to walk and talk in the ebb and flow of meeting and parting. He is a chronicler of the human spirit in words and music.