The spark to seek out this masterful record was a grainy black-and-white film about The Watersons called Travelling for a Living, directed by Derrick Knight. The 1966 film made a lasting and deep ...

Forty years ago, Norma, Lal and Mike Waterson spent evenings in their parlor in Yorkshire, England, singing along with their grandmother-reprising ballads, hunting songs, hymns and carols that their ...

With earthy and arresting harmonies, The Watersons from Hull – originally Norma Waterson and her siblings, Lal and Mike Waterson and their cousin John — revived old English folk songs beginning in the ...

For forty years - so far - two adjectives could always be applied, safely, to one of England's seminal groups: "vocal" & "English". The Watersons are a family band: members are Watersons, their ...

When I think of seasonal songs, I don’t think about The Watersons’ Frost And Fire straightaway. I think of ‘The Scarecrow’, a song from the extraordinary album they released seven years later, Bright ...

Folk singer Norma Waterson has died at the age of 82. The Hull-born musician was one of the founders of seminal folk group The Watersons in the 1960s, alongside her sister Lal, brother Mike, and ...

Mike Waterson, a founding member of influential English folk act the Watersons, died June 21 at a hospice in Scarborough, England, after a protracted battle with cancer. He was 70. The Watersons — ...

UNITED KINGDOM - DECEMBER 01: Photo of Lal WATERSON and Mike WATERSON and Norma WATERSON and WATERSONS; Group portrait - L-R Lal Waterson, cousin John Harrison, Mike and Norma Waterson in Hull (Photo ...

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With her familial singing group, the Watersons, and later as a solo performer, she helped revitalize traditional music from the north of England. By Jim Farber Norma Waterson, a vaunted fixture in ...

Waterson was from the renowned English folk family The Watersons. She was married to musician Martin Carthy. Her daughter, singer and fiddler... With earthy and arresting harmonies, The Watersons from ...