Bella is from a little valley called Edale in Derbyshire's Peak District. As a child Bella 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.
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"...Bella Hardy is more than a new generation folk revivalist... Her potential is massive. Meanwhile this is an exciting, accomplished debut." fROOTS