BBC Radio 2 Folk Award winner Bella Hardy is to support New Jersey singer-songwriter Mary Chapin Carpenter at Pocklington Arts Centre's Platform Festival of Music and Comedy at The Old Station, Pocklington, on July 16.

Bella, who was educated at York St John University, released her seventh solo album, With The Dawn, in late-March as her first record since winning the award in 2014.

Rather than merely the latest collection of songs from this prolific Derbyshire singer and songwriter, who now lives in Edinburgh, the album is an account of one year of her life.

Where previously Bella has adapted and explored traditional ballads and fables to tell her contemporary folk tales, the stories that inspired these songs are her own experiences: good and bad, happy or sad.

Elements of the initial demos, sometimes recorded into a phone as the thoughts occurred, have been kept. Whatever instrument was nearest to hand was grabbed and deployed whenever and wherever, even on one occasion in the bath, giving With The Dawn its immediacy.

Songs were written on the road at a time of longing and contemplation as Bella turned 30 and nothing felt stable. Documenting that flux as an album was a way to make sense of it all, Bella marrying her voice to lyrics that poetically question everything she has seen and done; letting go of expectations, both those of others and her own.

Tickets are on sale on 01759 301547 or at platformfestival.net