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Infobox musical artist | Name = Martin Carthy| Img = Martin Carthy.JPG| Img_capt = Performing with The Imagined Village at Camp Bestival ; 20 July 2008| Img_size =| Landscape =| Background = solo_singer| Birth_name = Martin Dominic Forbes Carthy| Alias =| Born = Birth date and age|1941|5|21|df=y Hatfield, Hertfordshire | Died =| Origin = London , England | Instrument = acoustic guitar electric guitar mandolin banjo Appalachian dulcimer|dulcimer | Voice_type =| Genre = Folk Music of England|English Folk | Occupation = Singer musician songwriter record producer actor | Years_active = 1960–present| Label = Topic Records|Topic , Fontana Records|Fontana , Philips Records|Philips | Associated_acts = Waterson:Carthy Blue Murder (folk)|Blue Murder The Watersons Steeleye Span Albion Country Band Brass Monkey (band)|Brass Monkey The Imagined Village | URL = http://www.watersoncarthy.com/| Notable_instruments = http://www.martinguitar.com/artists/display_artist.php? d=127 000-18MC Martin Carthy signature edition guitar by The Martin Guitar Company Martin Carthy Order of the British Empire|MBE (born 21 May 1941) is an England|English folk music|folk singer and guitarist who has remained one of the most influential figures in British traditional music, inspiring contemporaries such as Bob Dylan and Paul Simon cite news |url= http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/sandiego/access/49630255.html? dids=49630255:49630255& FMT=ABS& FMTS=ABS:FT& type=current& date=Feb+10%2C+2000& author=GEORGE+VARGA& pub=The+San+Diego+Union+-+Tribune& desc=The+unknown+folkie+& #124;+Despite+his+small+following%2C+Martin+Carthy+has+left+an+indelible+mark+on+the+genre& pqatl=google |title=SignOnSanDiego.com & #124; The San Diego Union-Tribune & #124; San Diego Green Guide |format= |work= The San Diego Union|accessdate=2010-11-01 |first=George |last=Varga |date=10 February 2000 and later artists such as Richard Thompson (musician)|Richard Thompson since he emerged as a young musician in the early days of the folk revival .
He was born in Hatfield, Hertfordshire|Hatfield and grew up in Hampstead , North London . After leaving school, he worked behind the scenes at the open air theatre at Regent's Park as a prompter, then an assistant stage manager (ASM) on a tour of The Merry Widow , and then at Stephen Joseph Theatre|Theatre in the Round in Scarborough, North Yorkshire|Scarborough Citation needed|date=July 2010. He then sang in coffeehouse|coffee bars . He became a resident at The Troubadour (London)|The Troubadour folk club in Earls Court in the early 1960s. He joined Redd Sullivan's Thameside Four in 1961. He is a renowned solo performer of traditional songs in a very distinctive style, accompanying himself on acoustic guitar; his style is marked by the use of alternative tunings, and a strongly percussive picking style that emphasizes the melody. His debut album, Martin Carthy (album)|Martin Carthy , was released in 1965, and also featured Dave Swarbrick playing fiddle on some tracks, although he was not mentioned in the album's sleeve notes. Carthy's arrangement of the traditional ballad " Scarborough Fair (ballad)|Scarborough Fair " was adapted, without acknowledgment, by Paul Simon on the Simon and Garfunkel album recording Parsley Sage Rosemary and Thyme in 1966.
He has also been involved with many musical collaborations. He has sung with The Watersons since 1972, was twice a member of the UK electric folk group Steeleye Span , was a member of the Albion Country Band 1973 line-up, with members from the Fairport Convention family and John Kirkpatrick (musician)|John Kirkpatrick , that recorded the Battle of the Field album, and was part of the innovative Brass Monkey (band)|Brass Monkey ensemble, which mixed a range of brass instruments with Carthy's guitar and mandolin and John Kirkpatrick (musician)|John Kirkpatrick 's accordion , diatonic button accordion|melodeon and concertina .
For many years Carthy has enjoyed a creative partnership with fiddle player Dave Swarbrick and, more recently, Waterson:Carthy has provided the forum for a successful musical partnership with wife Norma Waterson together with their daughter Eliza Carthy .
In June 1998 he was appointed an Order of the British Empire|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 ' Famous Flower of Serving Men '. In the 2007 Folk Awards Martin Carthy and Dave Swarbrick won "Best duo".
Discography
; Original / Studio albums (solo or with Dave Swarbrick )
Martin Carthy (album)|Martin Carthy (1965) with Dave Swarbrick
http://www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/~zierke/martin.carthy/records/rigsofthetime.html#notes John Crosby's 1993 Martin Carthy biography on Reinhard Zierke's website
http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/artist/b5jw/ BBC Folk database
http://www.btinternet.com/~stephen.yarwood/carthy.htm Stephen Yarwood's music pages
http://www.slipcue.com/music/international/celtic/artists/carthy.html discography on Slipcue e-zine
Steeleye SpanAlbion Band Persondata | NAME = Carthy, Martin | ALTERNATIVE NAMES = | SHORT DESCRIPTION = | DATE OF BIRTH = 21 May 1941 | PLACE OF BIRTH = | DATE OF DEATH = | PLACE OF DEATH = DEFAULTSORT:Carthy, Martin Category:1941 births Category:English folk guitarists Category:English folk singers Category:Living people Category:Members of the Order of the British Empire Category:Electric folk musicians Category:People from Hampstead Category:People from Hatfield, Hertfordshire Category:Steeleye Span members Category:People from Scarborough, North Yorkshire (district) Category:British folk rock musicians
