From: jason robbins
[tofutastic_at_hotmail_dot_co_dot_uk]
Sent: 23 February 2009 08:39
Subject: MARTIN CARTHY/THE OWL SERVICE LIVE IN
CANTERBURY NOV 2009
TWILIGHT FOLK CLUB PRESENTS…
MARTIN
CARTHY
+THE OWL
SERVICE
Live at Orange Street Music Club, Canterbury, on Sat 21st November, at
7.30 pm
tickets-£12/£10 in advance
Tel: 01227
760801
MARTIN CARTHY
`Arguably the greatest English folk song performer, writer, collector
and editor of them all' Q Magazine
For more than 40 years Martin
Carthy has been one of folk music's greatest innovators, one of its best loved,
most enthusiastic and, at times, most quietly controversial of figures. His
skill, stage presence and natural charm have won him many admirers, not only
from within the folk scene, but also far beyond it. Trailblazing musical
partnerships with, amongst others, Steeleye Span, Dave Swarbrick and his
award-winning wife (Norma Waterson) and daughter Eliza Carthy have resulted in
more than 40 albums, but Martin has only recorded 10 solo albums,
of which the much anticipated Waiting for Angels (Topic
TSCD527) is the latest.
Whether in the folk clubs (which he
continues to champion), on the concert stage or making TV appearances (he was
the subject of the acclaimed `Originals' music documentary strand on BBC 2) -
there are few roles that Martin Carthy hasn't played. He's a ballad singer, a
ground-breaking acoustic & electric guitarist and an authoritative
interpreter of newly composed material. He always prefers to follow an
insatiable musical curiosity rather than cash in on his unrivalled position.
Perhaps, most significant of all, are his settings of traditional songs with
guitar, which have influenced a generation of artists, including Bob Dylan and
Paul Simon, on both sides of the Atlantic.
In June 1998 he was
appointed an MBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours. He was named Folk Singer of
the Year at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards in 2002, and again in 2005 when he
also won the award for Best Traditional Track for 'amous Flower of
Serving Men. In the 2007 Folk Awards Martin Carthy and Dave Swarbrick won
Best Duo. In 2008 he won the BBC Radio 2 Folk Award Best
Traditional Track for Cold Haily Rainy Night alongside Eliza Carthy
and Chris Wood as part of The Imagined Village
project
http://www.watersoncarthy.com
THE OWL
SERVICE
"...combines the best parts of
the British folk-rock boom with a sense of occult psychedelia that's never
overbearing" Uncut magazine
"Icy female vocals and crystalline
electric guitars thread through sinister traditional tunes, recalling Trees'
1970 classic 'On the Shore' and Fairport Convention's 'Liege & Lief'"
Stewart Lee, Sunday Times
"British spooky/avant folksters whose
muse is slightly more medieval than post-modern, but recalls Black Mountain and
Lightning Dust as well as Vashti Bunyan and Steeleye Span" Time
Out
"...we highly recommend checking out the finest “traditional folk”
album we’ve heard all year" Foxy Digitalis
"...the result
sounds like a lost album of '70s UK folk ...female singers who have that quality
to provoke a world of a cultivated sensitivity ...all tracks flow beautifully
from one perfect mood to the next" Psyche Homestead
TWILIGHT FOLK
CLUB PRESENTS
APRIL-Weds 22nd
THE SONS OF NOEL AND ADRIAN +
SHORELINE
“ acoustic music that falls loosely into the progressive folk
niche….”
May-Monday 4th
LES DERNIERS TROUVERES
“Be transported through
time by the medieval sounds of the arch viola, the mandola, the bagpipe, the
harp and beautiful voices carrying profound words..”
MAY-Weds
20th
KIM THOMPSETT BAND + Support
“drawing on Celtic, medieval and
English folk and identity.“
JUNE-Weds 24TH
THE KITTIWAKES +
Support
“delicious, intriguing and evocative music, beautifully played and
sung by this talented trio. Recommended to twitchers and lovers of folk music
alike'“-
NOVEMBER-Sat 21st
MARTIN CARTHY
+THE OWL SERVICE
“For four
decades, Martin Carthy's work has immeasurably enriched the British folk
heritage. He is regarded as one of the finest singers and interpreters of
traditional music of the British Isles, as well as a highly influential and
much-imitated guitarist. Awarded the MBE for services to English folk music in
1998, his drive and enthusiasm are undiminished and he continues to be one of
folk music's great innovators.”
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