Biography
Shovel Dance Collective is a group of nine musicians based in London, UK. Brought together by a communal passion for the folk music of the British Isles, Ireland and beyond, the collective is simultaneously traditional and experimental, seeing folk music as a living communal activity.
Band members include Jacken Elswyth, Mataio Austin Dean, and Nick Granata. Three other members, Tom Hardwick-Allan, Alex McKenzie and Josh Barfoot, also record as Gentle Stranger.
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Their first gig as Shovel Dance Collective was in December 2019.
In 2020, the band released their debut "Offcuts and Oddities".
The band released the album, "The Water is the Shovel of the Shore" in December 2022.
In 2026, the band released "Everything in Readiness".
Biography text from Last.fm, available under CC BY-SA.