7:29Folk History Lesson - Martin Carthy - When US Artists come to Europe for ripping of folk-song-ideas
Martin Carthy
Rare lesson footage of Martin Carthy, curated from across the internet. Browse 2 clips below.
Lesson footage captures musicians teaching their craft — explaining technique, demonstrating exercises, breaking down songs, and sharing the knowledge accumulated over careers spent mastering their instrument. These clips are both educational and revealing, showing how great musicians think about music.
Martin Dominic Forbes Carthy MBE is an English singer and guitarist who has remained one of the most influential figures in English folk music, inspiring contemporaries such as Bob Dylan and Paul Simon, as well as later artists such as Richard Thompson, since he emerged as a young musician in the early days of the folk revival in the UK during the 1960s and 1970s.
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