U.K. Folk Bands Use Centuries-Old Ditties to Discuss Prison Abolition, Trans Rights and the Gig Economy
Think of English folk music and maybe thoughts come to mind of villagers lamenting lost loves or sailors bellowing tales of adventure at sea. But when the rising British folk band Shovel Dance Collective performs, its members want their listeners to think of more contemporary concerns. At the band’s shows, the singer Mataio Austin Dean…