All eyes are on Eliza
By Bill Francis, getbracknell, 15/ 9/2008
Eliza Carthy, the winner of two Mercury prize nominations and innumerable other accolades in her 15-year career, returns to the Concert Hall, Reading on Friday.
Eliza has performed and recorded with a diverse array of artists including Paul Weller, the Wainwrights, Billy Bragg, Nick Cave and Joan Baez.
She also featured on vocals of this year’s BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards’ winning track Cold Haily Rainy Night by the Imagined Village, which picked up the award for Best Traditional Track.
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 and the winner of an unrivalled seven BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards.
In 2003 she became the first traditional English musician to be nominated a BBC Radio 3 Award for World Music, for Anglicana. For her new album and the current tour, Eliza is accompanied by Willie Molleson on drums, Emma Smith on double bass and Phil Alexander (Salsa Celtica) on keyboards/piano accordion.
Eliza will showcase original material from her forthcoming album Dreams of Breathing Underwater, due for release via Topic Records in 2008. Powerful, vital and exuberant rhythms, absorbed from her travels around the globe, characterize this highly original, self-penned music.
Yorkshire-born and now Edinburgh-based, Carthy 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.
Describing herself simply as a ‘modern British musician’, Eliza Carthy is only just beginning to reach the height of her musical powers. She has become one of the most dazzling and recognised folk musicians of a generation, having revitalised and made folk music relevant to new audiences, capturing the most hardened of dissenters with intelligent, charismatic and boundary-crossing performances.
- Tickets cost from £12 and the performance starts at 7.30pm.
For more information, call the box office on (0118) 960 6060 or log on to www.readingarts.com
Eliza has performed and recorded with a diverse array of artists including Paul Weller, the Wainwrights, Billy Bragg, Nick Cave and Joan Baez.
She also featured on vocals of this year’s BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards’ winning track Cold Haily Rainy Night by the Imagined Village, which picked up the award for Best Traditional Track.
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 and the winner of an unrivalled seven BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards.
In 2003 she became the first traditional English musician to be nominated a BBC Radio 3 Award for World Music, for Anglicana. For her new album and the current tour, Eliza is accompanied by Willie Molleson on drums, Emma Smith on double bass and Phil Alexander (Salsa Celtica) on keyboards/piano accordion.
Eliza will showcase original material from her forthcoming album Dreams of Breathing Underwater, due for release via Topic Records in 2008. Powerful, vital and exuberant rhythms, absorbed from her travels around the globe, characterize this highly original, self-penned music.
Yorkshire-born and now Edinburgh-based, Carthy 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.
Describing herself simply as a ‘modern British musician’, Eliza Carthy is only just beginning to reach the height of her musical powers. She has become one of the most dazzling and recognised folk musicians of a generation, having revitalised and made folk music relevant to new audiences, capturing the most hardened of dissenters with intelligent, charismatic and boundary-crossing performances.
- Tickets cost from £12 and the performance starts at 7.30pm.
For more information, call the box office on (0118) 960 6060 or log on to www.readingarts.com
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