ACCLAIMED folk musician Bella Hardy is taking to the road with her band The Midnight Watch and descending on Bridport’s Electric Palace on May 15.
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.
She won BBC Radio 2 Folk Singer of the Year 2014 and was also winner of Best Original Song in 2012 for The Herring Girl, her own songs range in subject matter from fairytale to working class history, via childhood nostalgia, myth, murder and the human condition.
Her latest album Battleplan won universal critical acclaim.
Doors open at 6.30pm.
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