Posts tagged "British folk music"
Norma Waterson, British Folksinger, 1939-2022

Norma Waterson, British Folksinger, 1939-2022

Norma Waterson, a leading voice in British folk music, died January 30, 2022 at age 82. Waterson -- who performed and recorded with her siblings Mike and Lal, her husband Martin Carthy, and their daughter Eliza Carthy -- had recently been hospitalized with pneumonia. [Click on the headline to continue reading this article.]

Tim Hart, Steeleye Span Founder, 1948-2009

Tim Hart, who founded the seminal British folk-rock group Steeleye Span with Maddy Prior forty years ago, died on December 24. He was 61 and had been diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer a year ago. [To read the entire article, click on the headline.]