Martin Carthy 70th Birthday Concert – review

Queen Elizabeth Hall, LondonMartin Carthy may have influenced Bob Dylan and Paul Simon and become a British folk legend, but he has always been an easy-going, modest performer, and that wasn't going to change just because he is about to turn 70. He started solo, showing off his no-nonsense vocals and acoustic guitar playing with a song about transportation to Australia, followed by an unaccompanied story of female revenge written by Mike Waterson, and continued by switching between murder ballad...

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