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Musician: Eliza Carthy
Location: Edinburgh
Instruments: voice, fiddle
Music: English folk
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HOW I CAME TO THIS MUSICÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýWHERE I PLAYÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýA FAVOURITE SONG |
  
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 ÌýÌýListen (6'45) to an audio feature recorded at Eliza Carthy's house in Edinburgh. Presented by Max Reinhardt. (Broadcast on Radio 3: 29/1/02)
ÌýÌýListen (4'01) to 'Adieu Adieu' played by Eliza Carthy with Ben Ivitsky (guitar), Heather McCleod (harmony vocals) and Martin Green (accordion).
Where I Play:
I moved here to Edinburgh because I knew that I wouldn't feel like I felt in the village (in Yorkshire) - the person who was leaving all the time and when she comes back, everybody's lives have moved on. There were so many people who tour and come back here: musicians, theatre people, crew people….people with similar lifestyles to mine, so I could fit back into a circle of friends each time I returned.
 Up here I've learned to make music for my own pleasure again, which I hadn't done for a very long time. Ben has music 24 hours a day in this house, which you can see is just overflowing with music. Right now we're sitting under his bed, which is on a platform high above us and underneath you can see a forest of mixing desks, recording equipment, instruments …and musicians. Different people come in to play and to record: bands that exist not to gig but to make good music together.
It took me a long time to get my head round that. It was always the next gig, the next tour, the next album for me as a professional musician, and never any breaks. My skill stopped developing because it didn't have that space to grow in. But many of the musicians round here are like Ben and they just play at home all the time. So the relaxed community attitude towards music is one of the main reasons I live here --its really given me a lot. It's a really supportive communal scene.
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