Brenda Heslop is a songwriter from Northumberland. She has been writing songs for 20 years, her husband Geoff arranges and records them as well as often playing the instruments and providing the harmonies. The arrangements have an original quality, often using folk tunes as a secondary melody to the main tune. The sound is very much based on their harmony singing, accentuating the words of these beautifully crafted and haunting songs. The background of the hills of Northumberland, where she has lived and worked all her life provides her with the imagery and subject matter - whether a comment on the changes in rural life, the habit that love has of fading away, or just the things she loves the best - her home and the peace she finds there, This is authentic songwriting by someone who knows what she's talking about. Over a period of 13 years five albums have been recorded - The Music of My Heart, The Mortgaged Heart, The Moving Cloud and The Tender Coming containing 48 of Brenda's songs and Golden Bells, the new album. All albums are available from her website and from iTunes.If you would like to book Brenda and Ribbon Road please get in touch.