Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. British folk legends, Martin and Eliza Carthy, will grace the Town Hall Theater ...

Eliza Carthy holds history in her voice, born of equal parts culture and genes. She’s a student of traditional Celtic music, but also an heir to some of the greatest modern expressions of it. As child ...

Arguably the reigning queen of folk in England, Eliza has inspired a generation (including a friend of mine whose imaginary friend she was), simultaneously reinventing the form and honouring her roots ...

There are big choruses, big songs and plenty of freewheeling brass, spiky guitars, strings and sharp contrasts in these bold settings of Broadside Ballads from Manchester’s Chetham Library, songs such ...

Before there was carolling, there was wassailing, where seasonal songs were exchanged for money, food and ale.

Martin Carthy & Eliza Carthy Nominated 'Best Album' BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards 2015 Lifetime Achievement Award BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards 2014 The good Doctor Martin Carthy and his twice Mercury nominated ...

This enchanting evening features seasonal material performed against a backdrop of illuminated Christmas trees.

Martin Carthy began the English folk quartet Waterson:Carthy’s show at McCabe’s with an old, comical caution against marriage and family titled “Bald Headed End of the Broom.” Of course, the ...

December, Warwick Arts Centre, University Of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7FD. Doors: 19:45. Tickets: £28.00. Box Office: 024 7649 ...

I have too much time on my hands. I daydream of assembling tribute bands for the truly deranged. I’d like to make one for AC/DC comprising octogenarian housewives, because only they could reproduce ...