Eliza Carthy
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Eliza Carthy (born August 23, 1975) is the daughter of legendary English folk musicians singer/guitarist Martin Carthy and singer Norma Waterson and is an accomplished folk musician herself, both singing and playing fiddle.
At the age of thirteen she formed the Waterdaughters with her mother, aunt (Lal Waterson) and cousin Maria Knight. She has subsequently worked with Nancy Kerr, and also with her parents as Waterson:Carthy, in addition to her own solo work.
She has twice been nominated for the Mercury Music Prize for UK album of the year: in 1998 for Red Rice, and again in 2003 for Anglicana.
In 2003 Eliza swept the boards at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, winning Folk Singer of the Year, Best Album (for Anglicana) and Best Traditional Track (for Worcester City, on the album Anglicana).
In 2004 she was part of Oysterband Big Session, a collaboration with numerous folk artists brought together by Oysterband. They produced an album The Big Session Volume One, and the group as a whole were awarded Best Group at the Folk Awards in 2005.
In 2006 she contributed one song to Rogue's Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs, and Chanteys, produced by Hal Willner. Performing as a duo with Richard Thompson, she contibuted "The Coo Coo Bird" to a boxed set called "The Harry Smith Project" (2006) also by Hal Willner. As a duo with Bob Neuwirth, she sang "I Wish I Was A Mole In The Ground" by Bascom Lamar Lunsford on the same boxed set.
[edit] Solo Discography
- Heat, Light & Sound (1996)
- Eliza Carthy And The Kings Of Calicutt (1997)
- Red Rice (1998)
- Red Rice is a double album, it is also available separately as 'Red' and 'Rice'. The original double album came in a boxed set.
- Angels & Cigarettes (2000)
- Anglicana (2002)
- Rough Music (2005)
