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01. The Driving of the Deer
02. Emmots Song
03. The Elegy
04. Fin Cop
05. The Drunken Butcher of Tideswell
06. Lament for Derwent Village
07. The Derbyshire Miller
08. The Ilam Lullaby
09. Bradwell's Lost Daughter
10. Castleton Gypsies
11. Dain's Mill
12. Henry and Clara
13. Peak Rhapsody

BBC Radio 2 Folk Award winner Bella Hardy will releases her new album. This is her first collection of music specifically from her Peak District home, with adaptations and new tunes to works from 'The Ballads and Songs of Derbyshire' published 1867, and original songs written for the history, folklore and legends of the area.

 

Two folk celebrities collaborate on a low-key project with help from the Peak District National Park's Sustainable Development Fund. Bella Hardy lives and was brought up in the Peak District, and this is a collection of new settings for songs that appeared in Songs and Ballads of Derbyshire back in the 19th century, and new material based on the history and legends of the area. Unlike her last release, Songs Lost & Stolen (which included her award-winning The Herring Girl), this is a stripped-back affair, with backing provided by her own fiddle, piano and harmonium, and the guitar, bass and mandolin work of producer Kris Drever. Her singing is as fine, cool and no-nonsense as ever, and the songs range from her stark, effective new setting for the 1815 murder story Henry and Clara: the Winnats Pass Murders, to the grand Peak Rhapsody and her own, piano-backed Lament for Derwent Village, the story of those forced to move to make way for a reservoir.

Robin Denselow ‘ The Guardian’

 

Hardy Bella - The Dark Peak and the White

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