Soundwalk Collective

A London concert at Queen Elizabeth Hall bringing together Soundwalk Collective, Shovel Dance Collective and Patti Smith, with music that spans blues, country and folk.

Soundwalk Collective plays blues, country and folk. Alongside them, the bill includes Shovel Dance Collective, a group of nine members who draw on traditional music.

Shovel Dance Collective take an interest in folk material for its beauty, its force and its political dimension. Their pieces combine old tunes with improvisations developed by the whole group, field recordings and tape manipulation in the manner of musique concrète. Dense orchestration sits alongside passages of great delicacy, and the material is used to give voice to people whose labour created the wealth of the world, including those who were oppressed.

Patti Smith is an American singer and poet, born in Chicago in 1946, who works across rock, proto-punk and art rock. Active since 1971, the artist released the album Horses on Columbia Records in 1975. The concert takes place at Queen Elizabeth Hall, a London venue for concerts and shows.