Ewan MacColl’s radio ballad “The Fitter’s Song” is the source of the album’s title, while the self-penned “You Know Me” (“the door is always open and the fires are blazing, no one ever turned away, ...

Just a few days after Martin Carthy concludes the U.S. tour that will bring him and daughter Eliza Carthy to the Birchmere, the singer-guitarist will turn 84. But this isn’t a farewell visit, says the ...

Eliza Carthy, the child of a folk dynasty (her father is Martin Carthy and her mother Norma Waterson) is twice Merury Music Prize-nominated and has an MBE for services to folk. For at least a decade ...

British folk legends, Martin and Eliza Carthy, will grace the Town Hall Theater Rothrock mainstage on Saturday, May 3 at 7:30pm. The Carthys will perform songs from their first duo album ever -- THE ...

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And the event is coming to Whitby Pavilion on Saturday November 29. Before there was carolling, there was wassailing, where seasonal songs were exchanged for money, food and ale. In the countryside, ...