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Musician: Eliza Carthy
Location: Edinburgh
Instruments: voice, fiddle
Music: English folk
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HOW I CAME TO THIS MUSIC听听听听听听听听听听WHERE I PLAY听听听听听听听听听听A FAVOURITE SONG |
  
Listen to Eliza performing with refugees musicians at
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 听听Listen (6'45) to an audio feature recorded at Eliza Carthy's house in Edinburgh. Presented by Max Reinhardt. (Broadcast on Radio 3: 29/1/02)
听听Listen (4'01) to 'Adieu Adieu' played by Eliza Carthy with Ben Ivitsky (guitar), Heather McCleod (harmony vocals) and Martin Green (accordion).
Find out all about Eliza's recent success at the
'For lullabies they'd sing me songs about prostitutes, about monsters breaking in the window... and they expected me to sleep soundly after that.'
How I came to this music:
I lived on a farm on the North Yorkshire moors with my parents (English traditional singers Norma Waterson and Martin Carthy), my mum's sister's family and my mum's brother's family. They used to sing me all kinds of strange stuff. For lullabies they'd sing me songs about prostitutes, about monsters breaking in the window, coming in and killing the baby - and they expected me to sleep soundly after that.
I always sung with my parents: we sang in the car, we sang going to the shops and coming back. But I started singing with my mum and my aunt, Lal Waterson, and her daughter Marie, as the Waterdaughters, when I was thirteen. Our first gig was at the Vancouver Folk Music Festival in front of 35,000 people which funnily enough convinced me that I wanted to be a professional musician!
I took up the fiddle seriously when I met Nancy Kerr at a Folkworks Ceilidh. She was playing in a ceilidh band and she was just this amazing library of tunes. She'd been playing for twelve years already at that point, although we were the same age, fifteen. It was funny, I'd been playing the fiddle for four years and never gotten anywhere, then I met her and within eighteen months we'd recorded an album together and I was touring professionally.
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