The family of celebrated folk singer and song writer Lal Waterson will be in Hull on Sunday for the unveiling of a plaque in her honour at the address in the Avenues where they used to live. Did you ...

Like countless other '50s teens, siblings Mike, Norma and Lal Waterson's musical baptism embraced skiffle and trad jazz before, in their case, gravitating towards folk. Their unaccompanied style was ...

For around four decades a Yorkshire family - THE WATERSONS - have been leaders in the ongoing revival of English traditional song. Thirty years ago, two of them - MIKE and LAL WATERSON - made an ...

Lal (Elaine) Waterson, singer, songwriter, and artist; born Hull, February 15, 1943, died Robin Hood's Bay, September 4, 1998 Lal Waterson was good at ''blaming'' other people for her own achievements ...

Compare the column inches devoted to the death of Maurice Gibb last year to that of Lal Waterson five years ago. We all knew about the former; the fact that the latter went by virtually unreported ...

Marry Waterson and Oliver Knight are brother and sister who have grown up immersed in traditional song as part of the Waterson Family musical dynasty. See them in Mellor Brook on May 14. Marry is ...

As daughter to Lal Waterson, niece to Norma Waterson and Martin Carthy and cousin to their daughter Eliza Carthy, Marry Waterson is at the heart of British folk's first family. But although she made ...

Renowned singer Norma Waterson - matriarch of the "royal family of British folk music" - has died. Norma, brother Mike, sister Lal formed The Watersons in the 1960s, achieving critical acclaim for ...

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