Alex Garden is a fiddle player, guitarist, composer and producer with a unique approach as a result of 10 years experience performing folk, classical and improvised music around the UK. Alongside working with The Drystones, Sheelanagig, Tarren, Harriet Riley & Alex Garden, The Terra Collective and The Longest Johns, Alex is a recording artist who produces a variety of collaborative work. Alex studied music at University of Southampton, graduated in 2017 and moved to Bristol shortly after, where they are now fully immersed in the city’s thriving music scene. Their longest running project The Drystones has been nominated for the BBC Young Folk Award and received an Arts Council England project grant in 2021 for a new tour in partnership with EFDSS, English Folk Expo and Halsway Manor - with a mission to involve more younger audiences in UK Folk music.

Alex uses they/them pronouns. In 2022 they wrote an article about their gender identity and being a non-binary musician for Trans Portraits UK which can be accessed here https://www.transportraitsuk.org/bristol-trans-portraits . In February 2024 they wrote an extended article for the Cambridge Journal of Law, Politics & Art which can be accessed here https://www.cjlpa.org/post/neither-maid-nor-man-in-conversation-with-alex-garden