Shovel Dance Collective

Shovel Dance Collective is a nine-piece group from London that doesn’t want to treat English, Scottish and Irish folk as a fossil on display in a museum, but as an important practice of bringing groups of people with similar world views together. Their music overlaps established and experimental practices, improvisation and field recordings. Appearing on many album of the year lists, last year’s The Shovel Dance finds hidden queer history and emancipation in traditional songs, and the power of defiance that connects people across time. Rewriting the perspectives of the rich and powerful who have written history gives Shovel Dance Collective’s work a power that comes through in concert.

The concert will take place in collaboration with Heartnoize promotion.