British folk legends, Martin and Eliza Carthy, will grace the Town Hall Theater Rothrock mainstage on Saturday, May 3 at 7:30pm. The Carthys will perform songs from their first duo album ever -- THE ...

I have too much time on my hands. I daydream of assembling tribute bands for the truly deranged. I’d like to make one for AC/DC comprising octogenarian housewives, because only they could reproduce ...

Just a few days after Martin Carthy concludes the U.S. tour that will bring him and daughter Eliza Carthy to the Birchmere, the singer-guitarist will turn 84. But this isn’t a farewell visit, says the ...

In 2023 The Wassail hit the road for its first full tour, supported by the release of the seasonal album, Glad Christmas Comes. In the countryside trees were blessed, while in the towns wassaillers ...

John Wilson continues with the second series of Mastertapes, in which he talks to leading performers and songwriters about the album that made them or changed them. Recorded in front of a live ...

There are big choruses, big songs and plenty of freewheeling brass, spiky guitars, strings and sharp contrasts in these bold settings of Broadside Ballads from Manchester’s Chetham Library, songs such ...

Eliza Carthy, the child of a folk dynasty (her father is Martin Carthy and her mother Norma Waterson) is twice Merury Music Prize-nominated and has an MBE for services to folk. For at least a decade ...