Paddie Bell

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Paddie Bell (8 April 1931 - 3 August 2005) was an Irish folk singer and musician. She was married to Sandy Bell, who owns a well known folk pub and haunt of Hamish Henderson in Edinburgh named after him.

She was born in Belfast, but was resident in Edinburgh, Scotland much of her life. She sang with The Corries Folk Trio from 1962 and was a founder member. Although she featured prominently on the covers of two Corries albums as a banjo-player, it was as a singer that her talent shone. They would later become The Corries after she left in 1965 due to pregnancy. They would appear on tv on numerous occasions. She pursued a solo career after this, releasing an album called Herself.

She returned to the Scottish folk scene in the 1990s, and recorded two CDs, was a regular at Edinburgh Folk Club and had her own celebrated show in the Edinburgh Festival, as well as appearing at Festival Folk at the Oak.

Her cause of death is not clear, but it appears to have been a series of strokes.