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<body topmargin="0" leftmargin="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0"> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0"><tr> <td valign="top" colspan="2" height="90" bgcolor="#000000" text="#F7F7FF" bgproperties="fixed" background="0ad005a0dvldtc.jpg"> <div> <font size="5" color="#CCFFCC" face="Tahoma"><b>Waterson:Carthy</b></font><font size="1" color="#CCFFCC" face="Tahoma"><b> </b></font><b>    |     </b><a href="index_htm.html" target="_top" title="Waterson:Carthy"><u><b>home</b></u></a></div> <div> <a href="gigs.html" target="_top" title="Gigs"><u>Gigs</u></a>   |   <a href="albums.html" target="_top" title="Albums"><u>Albums</u></a>   |   <a href="bookings_pr.html" target="_top" title="Bookings/PR"><u>Bookings/PR</u></a>   |   <a href="id21.html" target="_top" title="Links"><u>Links</u></a>   |   <a href="id22.html" target="_top" title="Martins page"><u>Martin's page</u></a>   |   <a href="id23.html" target="_top" title="Normas page"><u>Norma's page</u></a>   |   <b>Eliza's page</b>   |   <a href="id25.html" target="_top" title="Sauls page"><u>Saul's page</u></a>   |   <a href="id27.html" target="_top" title="Fans Feedback"><u>Fan's Feedback</u></a>   |   <a href="id26.html" target="_top" title="Contact Us"><u>Contact Us</u></a>                                                                                                                                        <font size="2" color="#CCFFCC" face="Arial"><b>  </b></font></div> <div align="LEFT"></div> <div> <b>  </b></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width="210" bgcolor="#330000" text="#F7F7FF" bgproperties="fixed" background="0aed2c00dvldvb.jpg"> <br> <br> <br> <div> <b>For all booking enquiries</b></div> <div> <b>please contact</b></div> <div> <a href="http://www.alanbearmanmusic.co.uk/" target="_top" title="http://www.alanbearmanmusic.co.uk"><u><b>Alan Bearman Music</b></u></a></div> <br> <div> <b>Website by </b><a href="mailto:ps@heypressco.com" target="_top" title="mailto:ps@heypressco.com"><u><b>heypressco</b></u></a></div> <div> <b>Powered by </b><a href="http://www.bluesock.com/" target="_top" title="http://www.bluesock.com"><u><b>bluesock.com</b></u></a></div> <div> <b>Copyright Waterson:Carthy</b></div> <div> <b>Updated 3 February 2009</b></div> <br> </td> <td valign="top" height="390" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#080000"> <br> <div>  <a href="HTMLobj-177/Two_Tears.mp3"><u>Listen to Two Tears</u> </a>  </div> <br> <div> <b>Eliza Carthy</b></div> <br> <br> <div> <img src="0b010b60.jpg" border="0" width="272" height="182" alt="dreams CD cover" align="BOTTOM" hspace="4" vspace="0"></div> <br> <div> Eliza Carthy  released her new album, 'Dreams of Breathing Underwater' </div> <div> in June to rave reviews and an entry in the UK album charts.</div> <br> <div> <i>...her most sophisticated album yet and one destined to win her a whole new set of admirers." </i><i><b>Observer Music Magazine</b></i></div> <br> <div> <i>'...this album shows just why she is one of music's, and not just folk's, most important and innovative artists.'</i> <b>BBC Online</b> </div> <br> <br> <div> <i><b>'Eliza Carthy is one of the figureheads of the English folk revival … compelling' - Evening Standard.</b></i></div> <br> <div> <i><b>`A gloriously natural singer' - Q magazine</b></i></div> <div> Eliza Carthy is  winner of 2 Mercury Prize nominations and innumerable other accolades over a 15 year career during which she has performed and recorded with a diverse array of artists from Paul Weller to The Wainwrights, Nick Cave to Joan Baez. </div> <br> <div> Accompanied by Willie Molleson on drums, Emma Smith on double bass and  Phil Alexander on keyboards / piano accordion  Eliza new album 'Dreams of Breathing Underwater'  was released on Topic Records in June 2008. Powerful, vital and exuberant rhythms, absorbed from her travels around the globe, characterize this highly original, self-penned music.</div> <br> <div> 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. Eliza is also 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<i> Anglicana).</i></div> <div> Yorkshire-born and now Edinburgh-based, Eliza 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.<font size="3" color="#000000" face="Arial"> </font></div> <br> <div> Describing herself simply as a ‘modern British musician’, Eliza Carthy is only just beginning to reach the height of her musical powers. Though she’s just turned 30, during a 14-year career she has become one of the most dazzling and recognised folk musicians of a generation. She has revitalised and made folk music relevant to new audiences and has captured the most hardened of dissenters with intelligent, charismatic and boundary-crossing performance.</div> <br> <div align="LEFT"></div> <div> <i><b>‘Seriously impressive’ – Telegraph</b></i></div> <br> <div> In March 2005, Eliza co-presented the BBC Radio 3 World Music Awards with Benjamin Zephaniah – an event that was also broadcast on BBC Four. She continues to be a regular guest on the BBC Radio 2 Mark Radcliffe Show and ‘Later with Jools’, has presented her own four part series on the history of English Folk on BBC Radio 2 and was recently the subject of an hour long ITV documentary (‘Heaven & Earth’). </div> <br> <div align="LEFT"></div> <div> <u>Visit Eliza Carthy's new  website</u> </div> <br> <div> In 2008 Eliza won the BBC Radio 2 Folk Award <b>Best Traditional Track</b> for <i>Cold Haily Rainy Night </i>alongside Martin Carthy and Chris Wood as part of <u>The Imagined Village</u> project.  This is The Imagined Village performing <i>Cold Haily Rainy Night</i> on  <i>Later with Jools.</i></div> <br> <div align="LEFT"></div> <div>  <object width="300" height="250"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/3QC2av7-_Ik&rel=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/3QC2av7-_Ik&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="300" height="250"></embed></object>  </div> <br> <br> </td> </tr></table></body>