Shovel Dance Collective

Nurturing a passion for the folk musics of the British Isles and Ireland with experimental tendencies, London's Shovel Dance Collective explore the ways in which traditional music holds queer histories, proto-feminist narratives and the voices of working people.

The nine-piece Collective explore how folk song can transition between “the particular and the general,” offering meaning to both individuals and their personal circumstances, and the wider human condition.

They are simultaneously traditional and experimental, seeing folk music not as an archaeological artefact to be unearthed, but as a living communal activity, inviting and generous to those it speaks to.

Their album ‘The Water is the Shovel of the Shore’ was described by Tradfolk as “one of the most impressive traditional folk albums we’ve heard all year. An awe-inspiring mix of history, ballads, found sounds and musique concrète.”

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