Eliza Carthy News

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FOR more than 30 years, Norma Waterson and Martin Carthy have been at the forefront of the English folk scene.

FOUR generations of Britain's first family of folk have been playing together for years, but on their current tour there's a new member sharing the dressing room.

THE biggest "social occasion" on the Derbyshire folk scene will boast its best ever line-up this year.

Spiers and Boden have been inspired by traditional English music but have not been content to simply perform it in traditional style but to firmly imprint their own identity on it while still retaining its original character.

CLASS programme of events, with highlights including folk legend Eliza Carthy and comedian Jason Manford, has ensured that The Met is widely throught of as one of the best arts venues in the country.

Her latest album was the soundtrack to her marriage break-up, yet Eliza Carthy and her music emerge from the pain triumphant, she tells Chitra Ramaswamy 'I KNOW I'm an English singer-songwriter but this really is a love letter to Edinburgh," says Eliza Carthy of her new album, Dreams Of Breathing Underwater.

ELIZA Carthy a ' one of the most dazzling and recognised folk musicians of this generation a ' will appear on stage in Middlesbrough Town Hall's Crypt.

THE reigning "Queen of Folk" is set to do her bit for charity with a benefit gig in Leeds this month.

FOLK babe Eliza Carthy tops the bill at a charity gig in Glasgow tonight. The twice-Mercury nominated singer and fiddle player plays the Old Fruitmarket in the Merchant City to raise funds for Glasgow-based community station Celtic Music Radio.

Eliza Carthy is one of the most dazzling and recognised folk musicians of her generation and will perform at Buxton Opera House on Tuesday, September 8 at 7.30pm. Tickets will be priced at A 14 and A 16 and discounts are available.

ELIZA Carthy, one of the most dazzling and recognised folk musicians of her generation, will perform at Buxton Opera House on Tuesday, September 8 at 7.30pm. Yorkshire-born and now Nottingham-shire-based, Eliza grew up immersed in the world of traditional music.

Topic is the oldest independent label in Britain, if not the world. Not bad for a Marxist party offshoot that was started in a basement Tony Engle is not a man much given to hyperbole, which is unusual in a record label boss.

THE final line up has been announced for this year's Acoustic Gathering at Peasholm Park, Scarborough.

You've got to love a festival that pipes in the omnibus edition of The Archers as the warm-up act on Sunday morning.

DUST off your dancing shoes - a seaside town in Devon is about to leap into life as Sidmouth FolkWeek kicks off for its annual bash of singing, dancing, multi-instrumental and everything in between.

THOUSANDS of people from as far afield as Austria and France got into the festival spirit at the weekend- but the venue wasn't Glastonbury.

After his last album, the 2007 glam-rock epic Magic Position , Patrick Wolf had a horrific revelation: He wasn't being pretentious enough.

Wolf: Coming to a family-oriented venue near you. Patrick Wolf has already been compared to David Bowie, Roxy Music's Bryan Ferry and, if I might add one more name to the pantheon, ABC's Martin Fry.

CRAWLEY Folk Festival has confirmed a string of top acts for this year's event from Friday to Sunday June 26-28 at the Hawth.