Light the Season with Song - join award-winning local singer Bella Hardy for an evening of joyful harmony singing and festive celebration. Learn folk songs and rounds the traditional way, by ear; all abilities welcome, and no music reading skills are needed.
About this event:
Date - 7-8.30pm on Thursday, 19th December.
Price:
£9 - Accessible.
£12 - Standard.
£15 - Supporter.
Location - Upstairs @ Open House
Booking - Limited to 20 spots, to book your spot please click below.
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Edale’s Bella Hardy found her first home in folk music through a childhood love for ballad books. A self-taught ‘fiddle singer’, she began performing at Cambridge and Sidmouth festivals from the age of 13. Her debut album Night Visiting (2007) established her reputation as a talented songwriter when her first original composition Three Black Feathers earned a BBC Folk Award nomination.
Since then, Bella has sung unaccompanied ballads at a sold-out Royal Albert Hall, taken her band to the National Concert Hall of Budapest, and learnt the songs of Chinese farmers during her time as British Council Musician in Residence in Yunnan Province. She’s sat on the moors of her beloved Peak District with only her fiddle for company. She spent a year in Tennessee as a ranch hand, looking after horses, fiddle-singing in the diners, and immersing herself in the music culture of Nashville. She won Singer of the Year at the BBC Folk Awards 2014.
With her mesmerising voice and ability to conjure and twist stories that call straight to the heart, Bella has beguiled audiences from Canada to Japan, from Spanish bars, to Castles, to Concert Halls, releasing eleven studio albums along the way.
On her latest, Love Songs (2022) Old and new stories of shoemakers sent to sea; sweethearts waved off to war; penniless lovers scorned by parents; spouses digging deep railway tunnels… all told with precision, sensitivity, wisdom and the deft musicianship for which she’s renowned, now honed by 16-years of experience at the forefront of English folk music.
“Brit folk's finest” Mojo Magazine • “A fine, no-nonsense interpreter of traditional music and an excellent songwriter” The Guardian • “An aura of sophistication that will win over listeners who never set foot in a folk club” The Sunday Times •
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Accessible.
This ticketing is aimed to make our programme available and more accessible to everyone.
Standard.
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Supporter.
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