ELIZA AND MARTIN CARTHY: EAST Brighton Dome, May 29
THREE days prior to the global hosannas for Bob Dylan’s birthday, May 21 saw another folk icon turn 80 more quietly. Though less protean than Bob, Martin Carthy’s pursuit of the truths of traditional song has been broad-minded and modestly majestic, whether in his prolific solo output, with Dave Swarbrick, Steeleye Span, The Albion Band, Waterson: Carthy or, as tonight, with daughter Eliza.
Eliza Carthy has meanwhile pushed at folk’s boundaries anew, considering Englishness in a multicultural, pop-minded country. Whereas Martin’s 70th birthday was
