BELLA HARDY

Since reaching the finals of the BBC Young Folk Awards in 2004, Bella Hardy has become a leading light of the folk scene, nominated four times in the Radio 2 Folk Awards, and releasing three solo albums. All have been received to great critical acclaim, with the most recent, ‘Songs Lost & Stolen’, becoming MOJO magazine’s number 2 Folk album of the Year 2011, and 'The Herring Girl' from the same album voted Best Original Song at this years Folk Awards. 

 'The Dark Peak and The White', released in May this year, is Bella's first collection of music specifically from her Peak District home, with adaptations and new tunes to works from ‘The Ballads and Songs of Derbyshire’ published 1867, and original songs written for the history, folklore and legends of the area.