The “Indoor Festival of Folk” is a collaboration between folk/rock band The Magpie Arc and EFDSS and features a stellar lineup of award-winning UK folk artists performing at Cecil Sharp House on Saturday the 3rd of September 2022.
A singular talent in the contemporary folk world, Bella Hardy returns with a terrific blend of traditional and original songs for her 10th solo album ‘Love Songs’.
Postcards & Pocketbooks is a fully comprehensive Bella Hardy retrospective and a well-rounded overview of one of the finest folk singer-songwriters of her generation and a useful staging post from which to launch the next chapter.
Bella Hardy showed her folk roots were well-watered during her performance at Cecil Sharp House as part of her Hey Sammy acoustic tour. A broad and diverse set blended both her traditional and contemporary influences. A wonderful concert.
Bella Hardy fans now have the opportunity hear her performing her latest album ‘Hey Sammy’ with stripped back instrumentation as she heads out on tour this autumn with only her two fiddles and harmonium for company.
Created with the aid of a successful Kickstarter campaign, Bella Hardy’s new album is filled with a new-found freedom. If this gets anywhere the amount of airplay it deserves it could well win Hardy a host of new fans.
‘Hey Sammy’ is the long-awaited ninth solo album by Edale-born singer songwriter Bella Hardy, a record that bears the stamps of extensive musical expeditions far from home. Listen to ‘Learning to Let Go’ exclusively on Folk Radio UK.
While no means a typical Bella Hardy album, many will adore the fusion of cultures, traditions and musical styles that populate Eternal Springs, it is a beautiful recording.
Bella Hardy has successfully completed a Kickstarter campaign to begin recording her new album in January 2017 and we have a Christmas Song of the Day with Blue Christmas.
Part Two – Best Folk Music Albums of 2015 including: Bella Hardy, Damien O’Kane, Fabian Holland, Jackie Oates, Karen Matheson, False Lights, O’Hooley & Tidow, Martyn Joseph, Richard Thompson, Rachel Taylor-Beales, Eliza Carthy, John Jones and more.
Bella Hardy has unveiled a wonderful new live video performing ‘Time Wanders On’ with her band. Don’t miss her With The Dawn Finale Tour which kicks off in March 2016.
This year’s MG ALBA Scots Trad Music Awards shortlist is announced and voting is now open to the public. We’ve put together a preview of many of the nominations which you can listen to here.
