Bella Hardy

& The Midnight Watch

Wed 18 Jun 2014

Location: Guildhall Theatre

Running Time: 1 hour 50 minutes - approximate, including any interval(s).

About the event

Bella is taking the party on the road with her band The Midnight Watch, and embarking on an epic adventure to visit thirty of her favourite venues, 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 own songs range in subject matter from fairytales to working class history, via childhood nostalgia, myth, murder and the human condition, touching on both the fantastical, story telling elements of Kate Bush, and the lovelorn 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 clubClive Davis.

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Prices & Offers

£11.75

Concessions: £9.75

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Reviews

Reviews of Bella's recent album 'Battle Plan'

The Guardian ★★★★

The Telegraph ★★★★

The Times ★★★★

Maverick Magazine ★★★★★

MOJO ★★★★

R2 ★★★★

Songlines ★★★★

 

"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" Robin Denselow, The Guardian

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

A winning stratagem from the folk princess.  Is there anything not to like on Bella Hardy’s latest studio album?Maverick Magazine, Peter Palmer 

There are many levels on which to admire Bella Hardy. That voice, of course – so vulnerable, exposed and unadorned... but, as we first discovered with Three Black Feathers over five years ago, she’s also one of the best songwriters of her generationColin Irwin, Roots