One of the great things about the Cambridge Folk Festival is that, confident as they have long been in testing the boundaries of “folk” music, it’s perfectly possible to chart any number of different paths through the weekend’s festivities. You […]
With Anglicana, young English folk artist Eliza Carthy waves the flag for old Blighty and coins a term to answer the popular ideal of Americana. Rather than a separate movement, or any movement at all really, Carthy presents the now […]
Twenty-four-year-old vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Eliza Carthy usually performs traditional fare with her parents, English folk music icons Martin Carthy and Norma Waterson, as a member of the trio Waterson/Carthy. On Angels And Cigarettes, the daughter goes her own way and […]
