City Newspaper Archives - 3/2007
FOLK: Waterson/Carthy (3/8)
Published by Rev. Corey Keyes on Mar 07, 2007
Even if you haven't heard of Martin Carthy, you still know his influence. As the leading British champion of traditional folk music in the early 1960 he taught Paul Simon his arrangement of "Scarborough Fair." He also made an indelible impression on a young Bob Dylan, who turned Carthy's treatment of "Lord Franklin" into "Bob Dylan's Dream." After joining Steeleye Span in 1970 and the Albion Country Band in 1973, he teamed up with his wife, Norma Waterson, and her brother and sister in another great folk group, The Watersons. The latest incarnation, Waterson/Carthy, also showcases the talents of their daughter Eliza Carthy on fiddle and their son-in-law Saul Rose on melodeon. When the group visits Rochester's German House Thursday it will bring not only decades of performing experience, but centuries of folk tradition. It doesn't get any more authentic than this.
Waterson/Carthy plays Thursday, March 8, ay The German House Theater, 315 Gregory Street, 303-2234, 8 p.m., $18-$22.
