Martin Carthy

For more than 40 years Martin Carthy has been one of folk music's greatest and best loved innovators. His skill, stage presence and natural charm have won him many admirers, not only from within the folk scene, but also from far beyond it. He's a ballad singer, a ground-breaking acoustic and electric-guitarist and an authoritative interpreter of newly composed material. And perhaps his most significant achievements are his settings of traditional songs to guitar, which have influenced a generation of artists, including Bob Dylan and Paul Simon, on both sides of the Atlantic. 'Arguably the greatest English folk song performer, writer, collector and editor of them all.' Q Magazine.