 March 2005, at the Junction, Cambridge Eliza Carthy (born August 23, 1975) is an English folk musician known for both singing and playing fiddle. She is the daughter of legendary English folk musicians singer/guitarist Martin Carthy and singer Norma Waterson. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (500x700, 49 KB)Eliza Carthy at the Junction, Cambridge, 2005/03. ...
Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (500x700, 49 KB)Eliza Carthy at the Junction, Cambridge, 2005/03. ...
August 23 is the 235th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (236th in leap years), with 130 days remaining. ...
1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday. ...
Motto: (French for God and my right) Anthem: God Save the King/Queen Capital London (de facto) Largest city London Official language(s) English (de facto) Unification - by Athelstan AD 927 Area - Total 130,395 km² (1st in UK) 50,346 sq mi Population - 2006 est. ...
Folk music, in the original sense of the term, is music by and for the common people. ...
The term fiddle refers to a violin when used in folk music. ...
Motto: (French for God and my right) Anthem: God Save the King/Queen Capital London (de facto) Largest city London Official language(s) English (de facto) Unification - by Athelstan AD 927 Area - Total 130,395 km² (1st in UK) 50,346 sq mi Population - 2006 est. ...
Folk music, in the original sense of the term, is music by and for the common people. ...
It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Parts of the guitar. ...
Martin Carthy (born May 21, 1941) is an English folk singer and guitarist who has remained one of the most influential figures in British traditional music, inspiring later artists such as Bob Dylan and Richard Thompson since he emerged as a young musician in the early days of the folk...
Norma Waterson is a British musician, best-known as one of the original members of The Watersons, a premier British traditional group. ...
At the age of thirteen she formed the Waterdaughters with her mother, aunt (Lal Waterson) and cousin Maria Knight. She has subsequently worked with Nancy Kerr, with her parents as Waterson:Carthy, and as part of the "supergroup" Blue Murder, in addition to her own solo work. Lal Waterson (1943 - 1998) was an English folksinger and songwriter. ...
Waterson:Carthy are Norma Waterson, Martin Carthy and their daughter Eliza Carthy Their eponymous CD was released in 1994 followed by Common Tongue in 1996, Broken Ground 1999, A Dark Light 2002 and Fishes And Fine Yellow Sand 2004 Categories: Stub ...
Blue Murder is an occasional English folk supergroup, consisting at various times of various members of Swan Arcade, Coope Boyes and Simpson, Waterson:Carthy and The Watersons. ...
She has twice been nominated for the Mercury Music Prize for UK album of the year: in 1998 for Red Rice, and again in 2003 for Anglicana. The Mercury Music Prize, now officially known as the Nationwide Mercury Prize, is a music award given annually for the best British or Irish album of the previous 12 months. ...
1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ...
2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
In 2003 Eliza swept the boards at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, winning Folk Singer of the Year, Best Album (for Anglicana) and Best Traditional Track (for Worcester City, on the album Anglicana). The British Broadcasting Corporation, usually known as the BBC (and also informally known as the Beeb or Auntie) is one of the largest broadcasting corporations in the world in terms of audience numbers, employing 26,000 staff in the UK alone and with a budget of more than £4 billion. ...
The BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards celebrate outstanding achievement during the previous year within the field of folk music. ...
In 2004 she was part of Oysterband Big Session, a collaboration with numerous folk artists brought together by Oysterband. They produced an album The Big Session Volume One, and the group as a whole were awarded Best Group at the Folk Awards in 2005. Oysterband is a British folk-rock band formed in Canterbury in the mid-1980s. ...
In 2006 she contributed one song to Rogue's Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs, and Chanteys, produced by Hal Willner. Performing as a duo with Richard Thompson, she contibuted "The Coo Coo Bird" to a boxed set called "The Harry Smith Project" (2006) also by Hal Willner. As a duo with Bob Neuwirth, she sang "I Wish I Was A Mole In The Ground" by Bascom Lamar Lunsford on the same boxed set. Hal Willner (born 1957, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is a music producer working in recording, Films, TV and live events. ...
Bob Neuwirth is an American singer, songwriter, record producer and visual artist. ...
Bascom Lamar Lunsford (March 21, 1882 - September 4, 1972) was a lawyer, folklorist, and performer of traditional (folk and country) music from western North Carolina. ...
Eliza Carthy leads the vocals as a member of Blue Murder on the song "I Bid You Goodnight" found on the cd tribute to the music of Joseph Spence & the Pinder family called "Out On the Rolling Sea". Along with Eliza are Lal Waterson, Norma Waterson, Jim Goyes, Martin Carthy, Barry Coope, Lester Simpson and Mike Waterson. Green Linnet Records
In 2007, Eliza Carthy will be performing exclusively at the Wychwood Festival at Cheltenham Racecourse from the 1st to 3rd June.
Solo Discography
- Heat, Light & Sound (1996)
- Eliza Carthy And The Kings Of Calicutt (1997)
- Red Rice (1998)
- Red Rice is a double album, it is also available separately as 'Red' and 'Rice'. The original double album came in a boxed set.
- Angels & Cigarettes (2000)
- Anglicana (2002)
- Rough Music (2005)
1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ...
1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ...
This article is about the year 2000. ...
For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ...
2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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