Shovel Dance Collective has been played on NTS in shows including Time Is Away, featured first on 5 April 2020. Songs played include Georgie, Merrily Kissed The Quaker / Johnny's So Long At The Fair and II.

Nurturing a passion for the folk musics of the British Isles and Ireland with experimental tendencies, they explore the ways in which traditional music holds queer histories, proto-feminist narratives and the voices of working people. They are simultaneously traditional and experimental, seeing folk music as a living communal activity, inviting and generous to those it speaks to.