Winchester Folk Club

Bella Hardy is from Edale in Derbyshire’s Dark Peak. With an abundance of communal song and a family of singers, Hardy began singing locally at an early age. Having played the fiddle a small amount at school, she attended a Folkworks Youth Summer School in Durham age 13. Motivated by the number of young people playing folk music, she began working on folk fiddle. She also met the 11 musicians who formed The Pack. This 12 piece band toured across the summer folk scene, and they played on the Cambridge Folk Festival main stage in 2003. In 2002, The Pack’s only album 12 Little Devils was released, with fRoots calling it “… a genuine feel good album. Get yours now!”. The Pack performed for ten years before disbanding in 2007. In 2004 she was a finalist in the BBC Radio 2 Young Folk as a solo artist.
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