At the age of 84, legendary folk icon Martin Carthy is still a trailblazer. The icon who inspired the likes of Bob Dylan and Paul Simon was recently honored with a nomination for the iconic Mercury ...

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When Paul Simon first came to Britain in the mid-1960s, he was still in the early stages of his music career as a songwriter and was in search of inspiration. That’s when he bumped into Martin Carthy, ...

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Martin Carthy is a legendary ballad singer and guitarist who famously influenced artists including Bob Dylan and Paul Simon, while his daughter Eliza Carthy is a Mercury Music Prize award nominee and ...

Not many artists receive a standing ovation before playing a single note - but when Martin Carthy, the 84 year-old hero of English folk music, graced the stage of EartH, Hackney on Saturday, 27th ...

THE news from Stockholm this week ought to make all folk singers walk a little taller, now one of their kind has netted the Nobel Prize for Literature. Martin Carthy in particular. a near contemporary ...

Eliza Carthy once said that she was brought up to treat songs "as part of a continuum" and that her mother Norma Waterson and father Martin Carthy "are very, very passionate about a certain way of ...

Martin Carthy, one of folk's most celebrated figures, will receive a Lifetime Achievement award at the 2014 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards. The 72-year-old singer from Hatfield, Hertfordshire, will be ...

Forty years on, Martin Carthy is showing signs of mellowing. His commitment to the revivalist cause is undiminished. But here his singing is quietly passionate, beautifully offset by sparse modern ...

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