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  The Ectophiles' Guide to Good Music - Eliza Carthy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Eliza Carthy is very much her parents' child and shares their remarkable talents as vocalists and musicians.
Eliza Carthy and her band put on one of the best shows I've seen in a while, and it was well worth having to deal with the shortcomings of the location.
Eliza was charming and funny between songs, and proved the catalyst for a hilarious moment when they were trying to work out a technical problem with the bass.
www.ectoguide.org /artists/carthy.eliza   (1681 words)

  
  Eliza Carthy -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Eliza is an accomplished (People in general) folk musician herself, both singing and playing (Bowed stringed instrument that is the highest member of the violin family; this instrument has four strings and a hollow body and an unfretted fingerboard and is played with a bow) fiddle.
In 2003 Eliza swept the boards at the BBC (additional info and facts about Radio 2) Radio 2 (additional info and facts about Folk Awards) Folk Awards, winning Folk Singer of the Year, Best Album (for Anglicana) and Best Traditional Track (for Worcester City, on the album Anglicana).
Eliza Carthy And The Kings Of Calicutt (1997)
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/e/el/eliza_carthy.htm   (243 words)

  
 The Unofficial Eliza Carthy Homepage
Eliza mentions that there’s also a trombone player making suspicious noises on the abum (courtesty of Laura McDonald from Edinburgh) — this should be available before the tour with Sharon Shannon starts.
Eliza is to be working with the Sage, Gateshead in the next year when Womex comes to visit.
Eliza is still working every few weeks on the Mark Radcliffe show, doing occasional tunes, reviews of movies, and brewing up.
www.elizanet.org.uk   (892 words)

  
 Eliza Carthy / An Interview
Eliza notices her voice may have overtaken her use of the fiddle in the last few years, and she is scheduled to release a songwriting album at the end of next year.
Eliza also presented an award at the last Young Folk Awards, which is not surprising considering she made the decision to become a professional folk musician at the age of eighteen.
Eliza is a great believer in carrying on traditional music as it would have been done hundreds of years ago, taking a narrative and adding to it, passing it on.
www.rootsworld.com /interview/carthy.shtml   (1513 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Anglicana: Music: Eliza Carthy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Eliza is a major recording artist, recording and working with the likes of Joan Baez and picking up a Mercury Prize Nomination for her album Red Rice.
Eliza Carthy, daughter of folk singers Norma Waterson and Martin Carthy, emerged in the late nineties as Britain's leading female folk singer.
Eliza could probably coast on the reputation of her mother and father, and some might argue that in some past recordings she has.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00006JNAJ/upsideout60-20   (994 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Anglicana: Music: Eliza Carthy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Carthy's edgy singing calls to mind the older voices of Harry Cox and the early Cooper Family.
Eliza has always sought to bring a contemporary edge to her music, perhaps hoping in the process to get more people to take an interest in Britain's folk-song heritage.
Eliza Carthy boldly lays claim to a new genre with the inspired title of this beautiful album.
www.amazon.com /Anglicana-Eliza-Carthy/dp/B00006JNAJ   (1004 words)

  
 Eliza Carthy @ Dingwalls, London : gig review
Her between-songs stories are told like all the best Yorkshire stories are, in a random, endearing way and with absolutely no point to them, which on three occasions she admits to, but the audience love her anyway.
Eliza doesn't seem to mind and is instead amazed that so many people have come to see her - this reception was apparently rather larger than what she'd received on her last visit to Camden.
She plots a road between folk and pop, but overwhelmingly, despite being signed to one of the big five, Eliza Carthy seems to have done her best to "keep it real", if such a thing is possible.
www.musicomh.com /gigs/eliza-carthy.htm   (432 words)

  
 Eliza Carthy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Eliza’s new album brilliantly provides an ancient echo from our collective past with music that doesn’t conform to the metronome so much as it beats with the sound of human experience and passions.
She continues to be a regular guest on the BBC Radio 2 Mark Radcliffe Show and ‘Later with Jools’, has presented her own four part series on the history of English Folk on BBC Radio 2 and was recently the subject of an hour long ITV documentary (‘Heaven and Earth’).
Describing herself simply as a ‘modern British musician’, Eliza Carthy is only just beginning to reach the height of her musical powers.
www.alanbearmanmusic.co.uk /id44.htm   (508 words)

  
 Eliza Carthy / Anglicana / cdRoots
Back to the roots, which is not to say backwards, she goes to the old sources and comes out with as fresh a recreation of the folk tradition as she has done to date.
Eliza Carthy presents a great new traditional album re-affirming her as one of the most important artists of her generation.
It is built on the solid foundations of the traditional music of the country of her birth.
www.cdroots.com /topic-539.html   (307 words)

  
 Eliza Carthy - Topic Records
Eliza Carthy, daughter of Martin Carthy and Norma Waterson, is the most impressive and engaging performer of her generation.
The title notwithstanding, there is nothing rough about the quality of the music – Eliza has taken the name of the album from an age-old custom and she explains it…..
Eliza Carthy's return to Topic Records, with a great new traditional album re-affirming her as one of the most important artists of her generation.
www.topicrecords.co.uk /acatalog/eliza_carthy.html   (1933 words)

  
 Waterson : Carthy :: Keeping it in the Family ...
Eliza's had a frenzy of taking pictures on her mobile - here's a collection of some of the bestest ones!
On the 12th May 2007, the Waterson family are having a VERY special one-off gig at the Albert Hall in London.
Eliza and Saul hit the road in November.
www.watersoncarthy.com   (954 words)

  
 Eliza Carthy, Red
The cover photo of Carthy -- with dark roots, multiple piercings and a well-worn fiddle under her chin -- didn't provide many clues, but since she's the daughter of British folk powerhouse Martin Carthy, I had high expectations.
Ah well, I guess we'll be satisfied with the music alone, which in this case features Carthy on vocals and the one-row accordion, Martin Green on piano keyboard, Barnaby Stradling on electric bass and Sam Thomas on drums.
On Red, Carthy shows herself to be an alternative pop girl with a traditional heart, who (on this album, at least) resists the temptation to let too much of that heart show through.
www.rambles.net /carthy_red.html   (681 words)

  
 Eliza Carthy: GlobalVillageIdiot
But the Eliza Carthy of 2001 is showing a new side.
Older and wiser at 25, her new record, Angels & Cigarettes, is Eliza the singer-songwriter, and she's very happy to add the new skill to her resume.
While Carthy made her name as a champion of English music, these days her performances with her own band rarely feature anything traditional, although "we want to work on incorporating traditional material into the songs.
www.globalvillageidiot.net /Carthy.html   (831 words)

  
 Eliza Carthy Anglicana CD United Kingdom
Tim Van Eyken (guitar, harmonica, melodian); Donald MacDougal (guitar); Jon Bodin (fiddle).Anglicana is Eliza's first solo recording for several years and re-focuses on her love of traditional and acoustic music.
Parents Martin Carthy and Norma Waterson's influence is there, but molded through Eliza's own style.
The end result is closer in feel to the English Duo Show of Hands than to her previous solo work or her work in Waterson/Carthy.
www.cduniverse.com /search/xx/music/pid/5326887/a/Anglicana.htm   (321 words)

  
 Eliza Carthy Tour Dates & Tickets
The daughter of Martin Carthy and Norma Waterson - and the new star of British folk - playing traditional English folk music at its best.
Eliza breathes new life into England's traditional folk music with her witty and energetic repertoire.
Eliza Carthy + Ratcatchers + Nancy Kerr and James Fagan
www.ents24.com /web/artist/14/Eliza_Carthy.html   (193 words)

  
 Eliza Carthy -- the most beautiful voice in Britain
Eliza Carthy -- the most beautiful voice in Britain by wildrice
Some of the things people have said about Eliza in their blogs: delightful, down-to-earth, demanding, or just down right daft...
And no doubt Catherine is feeling smug, for Anglicana by Eliza Carthy is hers, not mine.
www.squidoo.com /redrice/?x=1&adult=false&ufg=false   (735 words)

  
 Eliza Carthy - Eliza Carthy's Biography
Daughter of Norma Waterson and Martin Carthy, Eliza has been born into & raised in the world of folk music.
Although the family has stressed in a number of interviews that Eliza wasn't raised to be a 'folk prodigy', something seemed to rub off as she's English folk music incarnate!
Incredibly talented on the fiddle & with a very emotive voice, 'Liza has toyed with other musical styles to make folk music a more accesible medium for the general public.
www.elizanet.org.uk /artist.php?artist=1   (212 words)

  
 CANOE -- JAM! Music - Artists - Carthy, Eliza
She's just waiting to spring on hapless hacks asking her about a particularly provocative lyric on her new album, Angels & Cigarettes.
If you listen carefully during English violinist-vocalist Eliza Carthy's latest CD, Angels & Cigarettes, you might be able to hear someone shout "Judas."
OK, maybe not, but when the album was released earlier this year some of her longtime fans may have thought it, because the album marks a drastic shift in the artist's musical direction -- from traditional folk to contemporary pop.
jam.canoe.ca /Music/Artists/C/Carthy_Eliza   (157 words)

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