Folk singer and fiddle player. She is daughter of folk singer/guitarist
Martin Carthy and former singer with
The Watersons Norma Waterson, a folk group which also contained her uncle
Michael Waterson, aunt
Elaine Waterson (Lal Waterson) and second cousin
John Harrison. She, her parents and her sister Lucy's husband Saul Rose went on to form
Waterson Carthy in 1994.