The nine members of Shovel Dance Collective are united by a passion for the beauty, force and political charge of traditional music. Together their practice has emerged as a patchwork of fragments, traditional material sewn together and embroidered with their own ever deepening group improvisations, explorations of field recordings, and concrète style tape manipulation.
Their arrangements emphasise the inviting, hopeful and human qualities of folk, and they channel the joy and sadness held in these collaboratively-shaped words and melodies. Balancing dense orchestration with intense fragility, the patchwork is threaded with a deep sense of the way in which traditional music carries the voices of all those who have gone before, the oppressed and those who, through their labour, create the wealth of the world.
Bus: From Leeds City Centre, we would advise to take the number 56 bus, from opposite the St.Johns Centre (opposite McDonalds), or on the Headrow outside of Snappy Snaps (opposite Argos).
The 56 stops on Queens Road, opposite the Royal Park pub. Follow directions as below from Royal Park pub.
By road
Head out of town towards Headingley/ Universities on Woodhouse Lane.
After you pass Leeds University on the left, turn left at the traffic lights onto Clarendon Road (the Library pub is on this junction).
Turn right at the next traffic lights (Leeds Business School is opposite) onto Moorland Road.
Hyde Park is on your right as you drive along Moorland Road. At the next crossroads, continue straight on (Royal Park Road) and down the hill.
Take the left at the Royal Park pub at the bottom of the hill.
The Brudenell is on your right, opposite the playground.
There is free car parking space at the venue.
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