Glow Arts: Bella Hardy CANCELLED

Unfortunately due to unforeseen circumstances this performance has been postponed. We apologise for any inconvenience caused.

May 2014 marks acclaimed folk songstress Bella Hardy's 30th birthday. To honour the occasion, Bella and her band The Midnight Watch are taking the party on the road, embarking on an adventure around thirty of her favourite venues and celebrating her six solo albums to date.

One of the most creative, prolific and original singers in the UK, Bella Hardy's captivating voice inhabits her characters and spins her stories with an equal balance of strength and sensitivity. With fiddle in hand, she presents folk songs in the best tradition; not as antiquated museum pieces, but as relevant and very human artworks. Four-time nominee at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, and winner of Best Original Song in 2012 for ‘The Herring Girl’, her songs range in subject matter from fairytales to working class history, via childhood nostalgia, myth, murder and the human condition, touching on both the story-telling of Kate Bush, and the songwriting craft of Carole King. Her latest album battleplan (2013) won universal critical acclaim, with The Sunday Times writing “Stunning... there is an aura of sophistication that will win over listeners who never set foot in a folk club” (Clive Davis).

"Bella Hardy is a fine, no-nonsense interpreter of traditional music and an excellent songwriter, and on battleplan the two modes collide... a powerful set" – The Guardian, Robin Denselow

“The continuing rise of one of Brit folk's finest. Among those who've had such an impact on Brit folk in recent years, Bella Hardy has perhaps been the most determinedly individual... Rare class and exceptional emotional depth.” - MOJO Magazine