Editing Eliza Carthy (section)

{{Short description|English folk musician and singer}}
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{{BLP sources|date=August 2011}}
{{Infobox musical artist  <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject Musicians -->
| name              = Eliza Carthy<br><small>[[Member of the British Empire|MBE]]</small>
| image             = Eliza Carthy Wychwood 2011.jpg
| caption           = Carthy on stage at the 2011 [[Wychwood Festival]]
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| background        = solo_singer
| birth_name        = 
| alias             = 
| birth_date        = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1975|8|23}}
| birth_place       = [[Scarborough, North Yorkshire]], England
| instrument        = Vocals, violin, [[viola]], [[diatonic button accordion|melodeon]], piano, guitar, [[tenor guitar]], [[ukulele]]
| genre             = [[Folk music of England|English folk]]
| occupation        = Musician, singer-songwriter
| years_active      = 1987–present
| label             = {{ubl| [[Mrs Casey Records]] | [[Topic Records]] | [[Warner Bros. Records]] | [[Heroes of Edible Music]] }}
| associated_acts   = {{ubl| [[The Watersons]] | [[The Waterdaughters]] | [[Nancy Kerr]] | [[Waterson–Carthy]] | [[Blue Murder (folk)|Blue Murder]] | [[Salsa Celtica]] | [[The Imagined Village]] }}
| website           = {{URL|http://www.eliza-carthy.com/}}
| current_members   = 
| past_members      = 
}}

'''Eliza Amy Forbes Carthy''', [[Member of the British Empire|MBE]] (born 23 August 1975)<ref>{{cite book|last=Denselow |first=Robin|date=2001|title=Carthy, Eliza|publisher=Grove Music Online|doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.51916 |isbn=978-1-56159-263-0 |access-date=17 December 2018|url=http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000051916}}</ref> is an English [[folk music|folk]] musician known for both singing and playing the [[fiddle]]. She is the daughter of English folk musicians [[Martin Carthy]] and [[Norma Waterson]].<ref name="Larkin">{{cite book|title=[[Encyclopedia of Popular Music|The Virgin Encyclopedia of Popular Music]]|editor=Colin Larkin|editor-link=Colin Larkin (writer)|publisher=[[Virgin Books]]|date=1997|edition=Concise|isbn=1-85227-745-9|page=236}}</ref>