Bella Hardy

Bella is one of the finest young folk acts around, singing unaccompanied ballads, or entwining her hypnotic voice with her own fiddle accompaniment to breathtaking effect. Three times nominated in the BBC Folk Awards, she has a voice marked as '...mesmerising' and '...faultless'. Her songs touch on both the fantastical, storytelling elements of Kate Bush and the lovelorn songwriting craft of Carole King, ranging in subject matter from fairytales to English working class history via childhood nostalgia, myths, murder and the human condition. 'Stunning... there is an aura of sophistication that will win over listeners who never set foot in a folk club' (The Sunday Times).

Chris Leary is undoubtedly one of the most promising young talents of the British electronic scene of today, after propagating his music via the Internet for some years, he has, in the last couple of years, started to gain a steady following of electronic admirers. His work has appeared on countless compilations, and his first album, A Midsummer Nice Dream, was released on Toytronc at the end of 2004. Ochre's second Album, 'Lemodie' is released on Becbecula records later this year.