Norma Christine Waterson was an English singer and songwriter, best known as one of the original members of The Watersons, a celebrated English traditional folk group. Other members of the group included her brother Mike Waterson and sister Lal Waterson, a cousin John Harrison and, in later incarnations of the group, her husband Martin Carthy.
Waterson at a Waterson:Carthy performance in Cranleigh, Surrey, in 2006
Waterson in 2016
Martin Dominic Forbes Carthy MBE 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, and later artists such as Richard Thompson, since he emerged as a young musician in the early days of the folk revival in the UK during the 1960s and 1970s.
Performing with The Imagined Village at Camp Bestival, July 2008
Martin Carthy with Maddy Prior and Norma Waterson
Martin Carthy and Norma Waterson at a Waterson–Carthy performance in Cranleigh, April 2006.