Martin Carthy + Special Guest

Fri 3 Apr 2026 7:30pm

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Fri 3 Apr 2026 7:30pm

£28

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Wiltshire Music Centre
Wiltshire Music Centre Ashley Road Bradford-on-Avon UK

01225 860 100

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Mercury Prize nominee 2025 & BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards Lifetime Achievement Award winner performs new album

Legendary ballad singer and guitarist, Martin Carthy has influenced generations of artists, including Bob Dylan and Paul Simon. So it’s no surprise that he’s recently been shortlisted for a Mercury Music Prize – one of the most prestigious honours in the industry.

In Spring 2026 he returns to touring not only with a Special Guest (TBC), but also with a new solo album, Transform Me Then Into A Fish, in which he revisits material from his first eponymous solo record released in 1965. This show also draws from an eclectic range of songs and tunes from his vast repertoire, drawing from the traditional canon as well as some new work.

More about Martin Carthy

For almost 60 years, Martin 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.

Trailblazing musical partnerships with, amongst others, Steeleye Span, Dave Swarbrick and his award-winning wife (Norma Waterson) and daughter Eliza Carthy have resulted in more than 40 albums, as well as eleven solo albums. Whether in the folk clubs, on the concert stage or making TV appearances, there are few roles that Martin Carthy hasn’t played. 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.