Eliza Carthy - 2008-05-15

Plus special guests Lisa Fitzgibbon and the Power Folk Trio

Eliza Carthy is the winner of two Mercury Music Prize nominations and innumerable other accolades. Over a 15 year career she has performed and recorded with a diverse array of artists from Paul Weller to The Wainwrights, Nick Cave to Joan Baez. Accompanied by Willie Molleson on drums, Emma Smith on double bass and Phil Alexander on keyboards/piano accordion, Eliza will showcase original material from her forthcoming album ‘Dreams of Breathing Underwater’. Powerful, vital and exuberant rhythms, absorbed from her travels around the globe, characterize this highly original, self-penned music.

A truly inventive and innovative singer and fiddle-player, Eliza is a gifted musical conceptualist confirming her position as, arguably, the most impressive and engaging performer of a generation. She is also the winner of an unrivalled seven BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards. Eliza grew up immersed in the world of traditional music. She divides her time between touring and recording with her legendary parents, Martin Carthy and Norma Waterson and numerous pioneering solo and band projects.

‘A gloriously natural singer’. Q Magazine

http://www.eliza-carthy.com



Thursday 15th May. Tickets £14. Doors open 8pm. Over 14's only. This is a standing event.

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