Martin
Carthy, one of folk's most celebrated figures, will receive a Lifetime
Achievement award at the 2014 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards.
The
72-year-old singer from Hatfield, Hertfordshire, will be honoured at a ceremony
at the Royal Albert Hall on February 19. The celebrated Celtic band Clannad will
also receive a lifetime award.
Carthy
is a master of the ballad of substance, songs that tell stories, whether they
are traditional, his own or from contemporary writers. His rich body of work
stands alongside a host of productive and often inspiring collaborations, in
bands (such as Steeleye Span and Brass Monkey), duos and trios and with his wife
Norma Waterson and their daughter Eliza
Carthy. Telegraph.
