Editing Hebden Bridge (section)

===Music===
[[File:Trades Club - Holme Street - geograph.org.uk - 482527.jpg|thumb|Trades Club]]

The Trades Club<ref name="The Trades">{{cite web |url=http://thetradesclub.com/ |title=Home |website=The Trades Club |access-date=2 April 2012}}</ref> is a nationally recognised music venue and socialist members' club. In the 1980s and 90s, the club became a renowned World Music destination for touring bands from Africa and elsewhere, including [[Thomas Mapfumo]], [[Ali Farka Touré]], and [[John Chibadura]]. [[Heavenly Recordings]] have a close association with the Trades Club and celebrated their 25th birthday with 'A Heavenly Weekend In Hebden', a four-day festival at the Trades Club, featuring performances from many of the artists on their roster and film screenings from Heavenly Films. The event was given its own catalogue number: HVN300.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://thequietus.com/articles/16621-heavenly-recordings-announce-hebden-bridge-event |title=Heavenly For Hebden Bridge Weekend |first=Laurie |last=Tuffrey |date=3 November 2014 |website=[[The Quietus]] |access-date=11 September 2016}}</ref>

Until 2014, the town hosted the Hebden Bridge Blues Festival<ref>{{cite web |url=http://yorkshirebluesfestival.co.uk/ |title=Hebden Bridge Blues Festival, May 23rd to 25th 2014 |website=Yorkshire Blues Festival |access-date=26 May 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141228081611/http://yorkshirebluesfestival.co.uk/ |archive-date=28 December 2014}}</ref> during the [[Spring Bank Holiday]] at the end of May. Established in 2011, the festival was voted the Best British Blues Festival in the 2012 and 2013 [[British Blues Awards]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.britishbluesawards.com/winners-2012/4581377358 |title=Winners of The British Blues Awards 2012 |website=British Blues Awards |access-date=21 October 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.britishbluesawards.com/winners-2013/4581356415 |title=Winners of The British Blues Awards 2013 |website=British Blues Awards |access-date=21 October 2019}}</ref>

The [[indie rock|indie]] band [[Bogshed]] were formed in Hebden Bridge in 1984, originally as the 'Amazing Roy North Penis Band'.<ref name="Strong">{{cite book |last=Strong |first=Martin&nbsp;C. |title=The Great Alternative & Indie Discography |url=https://archive.org/details/greatalternative0000stro |url-access=registration |year=1999 |location=Edinburgh |publisher=[[Canongate Books]] |isbn=0-86241-913-1}}</ref>

In 2017, the Hebden Bridge Community Association received The [[Queen's Award for Voluntary Service]], the MBE for voluntary groups.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/queen-s-awards-highest-honour-for-volunteers-1-8575098 |title=Queen's Awards 'highest honour' for volunteers |date=2 June 2017 |work=The Yorkshire Post |access-date=4 September 2017}}</ref>