Eliza Carthy and The Wayward Band, who are set to release their new album “Big Machine”, will play a gig at Whitby Pavilion this weekend.

This is a hometown gig for the band who have taken many a festival by storm over the summer. 

Musicport presents: 

ELIZA CARTHY & THE WAYWARD BAND plus Marry Waterson & David A Jaycock

Venue: Whitby Pavilion, Sunday 20th November, 7.30pm.

Tickets £20: Tel. 01947 603475 or purchase via Whitby Pavilion website: 

https://tickets.whitbypavilion.co.uk/online/seatSelect.asp?BOset::WSmap::seatmap::performance_ids=72EAA918-2272-4DCE-AD47-188D592AC5C7

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Eliza Carthy and The Wayward Band to release new album “Big Machine” & play a hometown gig at Whitby Pavilion in November.

Robin Hood’s Bay folk pioneer Eliza Carthy will release her new album with The Wayward Band, Big Machine, on February 3rd 2017 on Topic Records.

Eliza first assembled the 12-piece band in 2013 to explore and celebrate her long and varied career in folk music: "the last truly underground music scene".

Together they set out on the road to promote Eliza's 2012 album Wayward Daughter, The Best of Eliza Carthy, a retrospective that coincided with an official biography of the same name by Sophie Parkes.

Since then, The Wayward Band have become a festival favourite, while Eliza has been awarded the MBE for services to English folk music. They so enjoyed playing together, it seemed natural, inevitable and characteristically ambitious that they would make an album. Early in 2016 they did just that, recording Big Machine at Real World and Rockfield Studios.

The diverse material includes a trio of contemporary songs, led by Eliza's own You Know Me, where she addresses the migrant crisis and notions of hospitality, in the company of MC Dizraeli. She then covers Ewan MacColl's radio ballad The Fitter's Song and reworks Rory MacLeod's Hug You Like A Mountain, re-imagined here as a duet with Teddy Thompson.

Several examples of the Broadside ballad collections housed in Chetham's Library in Manchester are given a new twist with music by Eliza and the band, in the wake of Eliza's programme for BBC Radio 4 about the Manchester Ballads last year. This led to her recording songs about such subjects as domestic abuse in Devil In The Woman and Fade And Fall (Love Not) and the seafaring life in The Sea.

Then add a couple of searing instrumentals, a song about dying from custard poisoning and a heart-breaking traditional ballad, I Wish That The Wars Were All Over, recorded with Irish singer Damien Dempsey.

Eliza Carthy & The Wayward Band will bring their infectious joy and irreverence to Whitby as they did to the finale of Musicport 2015 where they had a capacity crowd enthralled last October.

Support comes from Marry Waterson & David A Jaycock who are known for their stunning, atmospheric and lyrical song writing and performance particularly in the wake of their acclaimed TWO WOLVES album. For Marry too this is a hometown gig as she too is from RHB and is part of the legendary Waterson/Carthy musical dynasty so we expect a lot of the family to be in attendance too.

‘..the lady who kick-started the still remarkably healthy contemporary British folk scene is celebrating in style’

***** The Guardian, Live Review

"… The audience don’t want it to end. And it shouldn’t end.

This should be a show we can always have – ripping the roof off a marquee at the end of festivals. Because when Eliza Carthy is at her best there’s no one better. And this is Eliza Carthy at her best.”

FRoots, Live Review

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