Artist's albums
Love Songs
2022 · album
My Johnny was a Shoemaker
2022 · single
The Navigator's Bride
2022 · single
Sprig of Thyme
2022 · single
Postcards & Pocketbooks: The Best of Bella Hardy
2019 · compilation
Full Moon Over Amsterdam
2019 · single
Time Wanders On
2019 · single
Tequila Moon
2019 · single
The Island
2019 · single
The Oak & The Ivy
2019 · single
Colorado
2018 · single
The Same Mistakes
2018 · single
Hey Sammy
2017 · album
Eternal Spring
2017 · album
With the Dawn
2015 · album
I Would Bring You the Moon
2013 · single
Battleplan
2013 · album
Three Pieces of My Heart
2013 · single
Bright Morning Star
2012 · album
The Dark Peak and the White
2012 · album
Songs Lost & Stolen
2011 · album
Written in Green
2011 · single
In the Shadow of Mountains
2009 · album
Night Visiting
2007 · album
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Biography
BBC Folk Singer of the Year Bella Hardy found her first home in folk music through a childhood love for ballad books. She began performing at festivals from the age of 13. Her debut album Night Visiting 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, learnt the songs of Chinese farmers as British Council Musician in Residence in Yunnan Province, and 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 and fiddle-singing in diners. With her mesmerising voice and ability to conjure stories that call straight to the heart, Bella has beguiled audiences from Canada to Japan, from folk clubs to national concert halls. With unflinching courage, Bella has explored and blurred musical boundaries. From her mastery of traditional music on her debut album Night Visiting (2007), to the self-penned humanist hymns and feminist battle cries of Hey Sammy (2017), via the Derbyshire ballads of The Dark Peak & The White and ancient Chinese poetry of Eternal Spring, an album of songs and poetry recorded in China; her themes of displacement and home, heartache and joy, are delivered with her unique, disarming honesty, and, of course, the acclaimed crystalline voice that won her BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards Singer of the Year.