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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Eliza Carthy and Moreno Veloso are children of somewhat well known musicians. Eliza is the daughter of Martin Carthy and Norma Waterson, two British folk greats, and Moreno is the son of Caetano ...

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 ...

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If there is one musician who embodies the dynamism and vitality of the current English folk revival, it’s Eliza Carthy MBE. As the daughter of folk legends Martin Carthy & Norma Waterson, Eliza grew ...

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 ...