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Mrs. Belle Fennelly IPAc-en (/ˈfɛnəli/) was a musician and businesswoman of Catholic rural Newfoundland. An accomplished fiddler and accordionist and cultural icon of the Southern Shore, her large repertoire included at least 150 works of mostly traditional dance music.

Her music has been recorded and performed by many contemporary musicians, and has been collected and published in a recent book by Christina Smith.

Music
Belle learnt and performed music almost her entire life. She started playing the accordion at age five, and was playing for dances by the time she was eight. She learnt from her family and neighbours, other players, visitors, the radio and 78 rpm recordings, and was able to play a tune after hearing it once or twice. Her large repertoire (at least 150 melodies) was mainly dance music, but also included popular standards such as "Peggy O'Neill", "The Lass of Glenshee", "Larry O'Gaff", "Over the Waves" and "The Mummer's Song". "There was dances mostly all the time in Aquaforte. It was the real place for it. Every night for however long the caplin's be in, the vessels'd used to be baitin' up"

Life
Clarabelle Ryan was born in the community of Aquaforte on the Southern Shore of Newfoundland's Avalon Peninsula. With the exception of a brief period in St.John's, she spent her entire life in various communities in the Southern Shore.

At age 28 she married lighthouse keeper Raymond Fennelly. They had six children: Catherine, Tom, Janet, Dot, Sharon and Ray. In the early '60s they moved to Port Kirwan in order for the children to attend a one-room school. Here she opened a shop in a building constructed by her husband, affectionally known as "Mr. Raymond".

The family later moved to Renews to allow the children to attend high school.

Recognition
The Newfoundland & Labrador Folk Arts Society honoured Belle with their 2014 Lifetime Achievement Award. The citation reads "For a lifetime of outstanding service and dedication to the traditional folk arts of the province of Newfoundland and Labrador".