Eliza Carthy

Biography

23 August 1975, Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England. The daughter of Martin Carthy and Norma Waterson (the Watersons), Eliza Carthy could hardly escape the music of her parents. Her earliest memory is of falling asleep in the kitchen to the strains of a Watersons’ practice session. As she grew older she was quickly inducted into the Watersons’ ranks, but chose fiddle rather than learn from her master guitarist father - principally because he was too often absent to teach her. In... Read more

Genres

Folk

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