Eliza Carthy is probably the biggest star to have emerged from the British folk scene in the last decade. Daughter of folk icons Martin Carthy and Norma Waterson and a member of the famed folk group Waterson:Carthy, she has made a solo career which has won her many prestigious awards and placed her firmly as a personality as well as a performer of supreme vocal and instrumental skills. Her new CD "Rough Music" is a powerful, vital, multi-layered album full of dark rhythms in her vision of English traditional music. As the BBC says: "What's brilliant about Eliza is that she's totally dedicated to the tradition and simultaneously full of innovation."