Spiral Dance (band)
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Spiral Dance is an Adelaide
-based folk rock
band whose musical focus is on the concepts of magic, myth and legend.
The band was formed in 1992 as a project to explore some of the more mystical elements in life and has drawn its energy from the songwriting and vocal skills of Adrienne Piggott. Adrienne's lyrics are supported by guitar
, fiddle
and button accordion
, underpinned with bass
and percussion
, all arranged to blend acoustic folk-rock with Celtic harmony.
To date, the band has released seven albums and toured extensively in Australia and the United States. Spiral Dance are currently recording their next studio album ready for release in late 2011.
Adelaide
Adelaide is the capital city of South Australia and the fifth-largest city in Australia. Adelaide has an estimated population of more than 1.2 million...
-based folk rock
Folk rock
Folk rock is a musical genre combining elements of folk music and rock music. In its earliest and narrowest sense, the term referred to a genre that arose in the United States and the UK around the mid-1960s...
band whose musical focus is on the concepts of magic, myth and legend.
The band was formed in 1992 as a project to explore some of the more mystical elements in life and has drawn its energy from the songwriting and vocal skills of Adrienne Piggott. Adrienne's lyrics are supported by guitar
Guitar
The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
, fiddle
Fiddle
The term fiddle may refer to any bowed string musical instrument, most often the violin. It is also a colloquial term for the instrument used by players in all genres, including classical music...
and button accordion
Button accordion
A button accordion is a type of accordion on which the melody-side keyboard consists of a series of buttons rather than piano-style keys. There exists a wide variation in keyboard systems, tuning, action and construction of these instruments...
, underpinned with bass
Bass guitar
The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
and percussion
Percussion instrument
A percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound when hit with an implement or when it is shaken, rubbed, scraped, or otherwise acted upon in a way that sets the object into vibration...
, all arranged to blend acoustic folk-rock with Celtic harmony.
To date, the band has released seven albums and toured extensively in Australia and the United States. Spiral Dance are currently recording their next studio album ready for release in late 2011.
Current Band Line-up
- Adrienne Piggott: vocals
- Ingrid Hapke: violin, vocals
- David Bentley: bass, vocals
- Nick Carter: guitar, vocals
- Paul Gooding: button accordion, vocals
- Rick Kearsley: drums and percussion
Discography
- Woman of the Earth (1996)
- Over the Nine Waves (1997)
- Magick (1999)
- Notes of Being (2002)
- The Quickening (2006)
- Live - Worts 'n' All (2007)
- From The Mist, A Retrospective (2010)