Martin Carthy

Where: The Great Hall, Dartington Hall Estate, TQ9 6EN
When: Sunday 6th August, 7.45pm
Price: Central Rake (Downstairs) £18.50 | Students and U16 £9.25 Bench Seat (Balcony or Downstairs Sides) £14.00 | Students and U16 £7.00

Folk royalty comes to Dartington - prepare to be amazed.

Martin Carthy remains one of the most influential, towering figures in traditional music, inspiring Bob Dylan and Paul Simon.

Carthy has been one of folk music’s greatest innovators, one of its best loved, most enthusiastic and, at times, most quietly controversial of figures. His skill, stage presence and natural charm have won him many admirers, not only from within the folk scene, but also far beyond it.

He’s a ballad singer, a ground-breaking acoustic and electric-guitarist and an authoritative interpreter of newly composed material. He always prefers to follow an insatiable musical curiosity rather than cash in on his unrivalled position. Perhaps, most significant of all, are his settings of traditional songs with guitar, which have influenced a generation of artists, including Bob Dylan and Paul Simon, on both sides of the Atlantic.

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