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Ribbon Road have been performing the songs of Brenda Heslop for over 17 years. Over this time five albums have been recorded - The Music of My Heart, The Mortgaged Heart, The Moving Cloud, The Tender Coming and Golden Bells containing 59 of Brenda's songs.

Just recently they have been joined by Jill, adding a third harmony, which means that the beautifully produced recorded sound on their albums can be realised live.

Brenda 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.

"Ribbon Road is songwriter Brenda Heslop and her husband Geoff (famed producer of many classic 70's releases). They sing in perfect balance and gentle close harmony on their fourth set of Brenda's acutely personal songs. Tender, intimate and haunting, these songs are genuinely moving and all the better for using absolutely minimal instrumental settings". - fRoots

"Songwriter Brenda Heslop has a secret, and she will whisper it in your ear: but it's a shocking secret, and its effect on you is much greater than you expect from a whisper. True, Brenda's secrets are in song, but the effect of her quiet vocals and harmonies with husband Geoff whacks you in the lughole and makes you pay attention. - The Living Tradition

"Brenda is one classy writer and vocalist - her albums are slow burners that reveal their charms on repeated exposure..." - Rock and Reel