Celf Llambed - An Evening with Martin Carthy
LAMPETER HERBS & FOLK: SUMMER PROGRAMME 2019
Parsley, Sage, Rosemary, and Thyme...
Martin Carthy was at the heart of the Folk Music Revival of the 1960’s, inspiring a generation and winning respect from immediate contemporaries such as Paul Simon and his lifelong friend and admirer, Bob Dylan. To both he taught his arrangement of ‘Scarborough Fair’ with its herbal refrain. Dylan turned it into his ‘Girl from the North Country’, and for Simon & Garfunkel it became a massive signature hit.
As well as being an engaged and engaging, haunting and edgy, virtuoso solo performer with an encyclopaedic knowledge of English folk song and a characteristic guitar style, for the last five decades, he has also been part of the most important line-ups in folk.
In the sixties and seventies he was partnered by the great fiddler, Dave Swarbrick. He also played in the Albion Country Band, Steeleye Span, Brass Monkey, Blue Murder, and with members of Fairport Convention. In later years more accolades followed as he performed with his wife, Norma Waterson, and his daughter, Eliza Carthy, More recently he provided guitar and vocals in the fusion folk group, The Imagined Village: a visionary celebration of contemporary multicultural Britain in which traditional folk themes were taken up and embellished by musicians from a wide variety of ethnic and cultural backgrounds.
Over 50 years he has received countless folk awards, and was awarded an MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours for his services to Folk Music.
Supported by Transition Town Lampeter
Saturday 29th June 2019 - 8pm (hall open for food & drink at 6pm)
Tickets £14.00
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Parsley, Sage, Rosemary, and Thyme...
Martin Carthy was at the heart of the Folk Music Revival of the 1960’s, inspiring a generation and winning respect from immediate contemporaries such as Paul Simon and his lifelong friend and admirer, Bob Dylan. To both he taught his arrangement of ‘Scarborough Fair’ with its herbal refrain. Dylan turned it into his ‘Girl from the North Country’, and for Simon & Garfunkel it became a massive signature hit.
As well as being an engaged and engaging, haunting and edgy, virtuoso solo performer with an encyclopaedic knowledge of English folk song and a characteristic guitar style, for the last five decades, he has also been part of the most important line-ups in folk.
In the sixties and seventies he was partnered by the great fiddler, Dave Swarbrick. He also played in the Albion Country Band, Steeleye Span, Brass Monkey, Blue Murder, and with members of Fairport Convention. In later years more accolades followed as he performed with his wife, Norma Waterson, and his daughter, Eliza Carthy, More recently he provided guitar and vocals in the fusion folk group, The Imagined Village: a visionary celebration of contemporary multicultural Britain in which traditional folk themes were taken up and embellished by musicians from a wide variety of ethnic and cultural backgrounds.
Over 50 years he has received countless folk awards, and was awarded an MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours for his services to Folk Music.
Supported by Transition Town Lampeter
Saturday 29th June 2019 - 8pm (hall open for food & drink at 6pm)
Tickets £14.00
Venue
Victoria Hall
Bryn Road
Lampeter
Ceredigion
SA48 7EE
Bryn Road
Lampeter
Ceredigion
SA48 7EE