Our popular series of free lunchtime foyer concerts returns this year with dates throughout the summer. Enjoy lunch in Touchstones Café Bar whilst experiencing some of the most exciting artists in the North West.

Acclaimed singer Bella Hardy, three times nominated in the BBC Folk Awards, has a voice marked as '...mesmerising'and '...faultless'.

Having spent ten years playing some of folk's biggest stages with festival regulars The Pack and Ola, she launched her debut solo album Night Visiting in Autumn 2007 to overwhelming critical support. Bella has now established herself as one of the finest young folk acts around, singing unaccompanied ballads, or entwining her hypnotic voice with her own fiddle accompaniment to breathtaking effect.