RE-ISSUE. This documentary series explores the musical influences of four of the most successful artists in contemporary English folk music. This film focuses on Eliza Carthy， a singer-songwriter who is bringing traditional music to a new audience. Unsurprisingly Eliza (who was born in 1975) spent her younger years playing music and recording with various members of her über-talented family. As she got older she began instigating more and more projects herself， and over the years has become one of the most important British artists of modern times. Early on her music began to transcend the rigid confines of British traditional music， and as she grew and developed as an artist， she began to assimilate more and more seemingly incongruent influences into her music， until her art became a multicultural synergy of sources that really defies categorisation. It seems that Eliza has given up trying to categorise herself， and just describes herself simply as a ‘Modern British Musician’， which says it all really.