Carty has always seen folk as reflecting social life and conditions, so has never shied away from social and political issues ...

Waterson was from the renowned English folk family The Watersons. She was married to musician Martin Carthy. Her daughter, singer and fiddler... With earthy and arresting harmonies, The Watersons from ...

Veteran British folk singers Martin Carthy and Norma Waterson built their reputations on ballads that date back a century or more. But for Carthy and Waterson, the traditional tunes remain as relevant ...

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 ...

When is a supergroup not a supergroup? When it’s the family business. Waterson:Carthy, the first family of English folk music, enjoys a spectacular surplus of talent. Norma Waterson and her ...

“Stop biting your nails,” Martin Carthy scolds his daughter, Eliza, as they and Eliza’s mother, Norma Waterson, pose for a family photo at McCabe’s Guitar Shop in Santa Monica. The daughter rolls her ...

FOR two nights this week, the Scarborough Spa Pavilion Theatre will play host to a celebration of the “grande dame” of British folk music, Norma Waterson, the extended Waterson/Carthy dynasty and ...

With earthy and arresting harmonies, The Watersons from Hull – originally Norma Waterson and her siblings, Lal and Mike Waterson and their cousin John — revived old English folk songs beginning in the ...