Norma Waterson and Eliza Carthy - review

Union Chapel, London"It's hard to stick to just one kind of music," explained Norma Waterson, as she switched from a soulful gospel song to a grand, brooding ballad by Richard Thompson about the 1940s heart-throb Josef Locke, linking the two with a lengthy story about the songs she heard in her childhood. Now in her early 70s, the lady who heads the most extraordinary folk music dynasty in England was still in magnificent voice.Brought up in Hull by her part-Gypsy grandmother, she began singing ...

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