Alex Garden is a fiddle player, guitarist, composer and producer with over 15 years experience performing folk, electronic, classical and improvised music around the UK. Alongside working with Tarren, Sheelanagig, The Drystones, 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, was nominated for the BBC Young Folk Award in 2018.

In 2025 they launched the Greenbank Folk Club, a new organisation in Bristol, bringing world class folk music performances, workshops and ceilidhs to the community. They received Arts Council England funding in 2024 and work with project partners EFDSS, Halsway Manor, Bristol Beacon, Ear Trumpet Music, Cuculi Records and English Folk Expo to research and deliver better accessibility in this sector whilst establishing a new folk club for Bristol run by younger people. Alex has been running a regular, twice-monthly, folk session at The Greenbank Pub since 2022.

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 on the same subject 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