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bella hardy

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About Me

Bella is from a little valley called Edale in Derbyshire's Peak District. As a child she was always singing. She couldn't help it. Edale was the ideal place to nurture this natural ability, with an abundance of communal song. It was her mum who made her play the fiddle. She put up a lot of resistance, until she went to a Folkworks Youth Summer School aged 13 and realised that there were lots of very cool people her age playing folk music. They all made an effort to meet up again and on New Year's Day a year later, The Pack was formed. In 2003 the only Pack album '12 Little Devils' was released.At 18 she followed her love of stories and moved to York to study English Lit. She spent 3 years singing with trio 'Ola' and in 2004 she entered the BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Awards as a solo artist. She got through the semis as an unaccompanied singer and went into the finals as a fiddle singer.Bella is now an acclaimed singer; her voice has been marked as '...mesmerising' and '...faultless'. As well as singing unaccompanied ballads, Bella entwines her voice with her own fiddle accompaniment to breathtaking effect.Bella also teaches song, plays fiddle in ceilidh bands and works as a musical odd-jobs woman. You should create your own MySpace Layouts like me by using nUCLEArcENTURy .COM's MySpace Profile Editor !

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Member Since: 7/5/2007
Band Website: bellahardy.com
Sounds Like: a village girl who likes a song
Record Label: Noe Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

NEW BLOG! http://bellahardy.blogspot.com/

I've got a new blog!  See http://bellahardy.blogspot.com/  Hoorah!*
Posted by bella hardy on Mon, 22 Oct 2007 11:57:00 PST

News News News!

Late Junction Special! night visiting will be a feature on BBC Radio 3's Late Junction with tracks from the album being played between Tuesday 6th and Friday 9th November!  Listen in to Verity Sh...
Posted by bella hardy on Mon, 22 Oct 2007 11:56:00 PST

bellahardy.com now launched

bellahardy.com now launched
Posted by bella hardy on Wed, 18 Jul 2007 06:10:00 PST

Night Visiting - Album Launch 27th September

To celebrate the release of Night Visiting, we're having an album launch at Northern Stage in Newcastle upon Tyne on Thursday 27th September. We'll be down at stage three, an intimate space with its o...
Posted by bella hardy on Wed, 11 Jul 2007 12:55:00 PST

Night Visiting - Debut Solo Album

Bella Hardy: Night Visiting. Noe Records (NOE01)Release Date: Thursday 27th September 2007 Bella is finally releasing her long awaited debut solo album, Night Visiting. Night Visiting features a sele...
Posted by bella hardy on Wed, 11 Jul 2007 01:02:00 PST