Editing Martin Carthy (section)

{{Short description|English singer and guitarist (born 1941)}}
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{{Infobox musical artist <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Musicians -->
| name              = Martin Carthy
| honorific_suffix  = [[Order of the British Empire|MBE]]
| image             = Martin Carthy.JPG
| caption           = Performing with [[The Imagined Village]]<br />at [[Camp Bestival]], July 2008
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| background        = solo_singer
| birth_name        = Martin Dominic Forbes Carthy
| alias             = 
| birth_date        = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1941|5|21}}
| birth_place       = [[Hatfield, Hertfordshire]], England
| death_place       = 
| origin            = London, England
| instrument        = {{hlist|Vocals|guitar|[[mandolin]]|[[banjo]]|[[Appalachian dulcimer|dulcimer]]|[[Organ (music)|organ]]}}
| genre             = {{hlist|[[Folk Music of England|English folk]]|[[folk baroque]]|[[British folk rock]]}}
| occupation        = {{hlist|Singer|musician|songwriter|record producer}}
| years_active      = 1960–present
| label             = {{hlist|[[Topic Records|Topic]]|[[Fontana Records|Fontana]]|[[Philips Records|Philips]]|[[Deram Records|Deram]]|[[B&C Records|B&C]]}}
| associated_acts   = [[Waterson:Carthy]]<br />[[Blue Murder (folk)|Blue Murder]]<br />[[The Watersons]]<br />[[Steeleye Span]]<br />[[Albion Country Band]]<br />[[Brass Monkey (band)|Brass Monkey]]<br />[[The Imagined Village]]<br />[[Dave Swarbrick]]
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| module            = {{Infobox person
| embed      = yes
| spouse     = {{marriage|[[Norma Waterson]]|1972|2022|reason=her death}}
| children = [[Eliza Carthy]]
| relatives  = {{unbulleted list|[[Mike Waterson]]<br />(brother-in-law)|[[Lal Waterson]]<br />(sister-in-law)}}}}
}}

'''Martin Dominic Forbes Carthy''' [[Order of the British Empire|MBE]] (born 21 May 1941) 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 (musician)|Richard Thompson]], since he emerged as a young musician in the early days of the [[British folk revival|folk revival]] in the UK during the 1960s and 1970s.