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#REDIRECT [[Sydney Carter]]
'''Sydney Bertram Carter''', [[United Kingdom|British]] [[poet]], [[songwriter]] and [[Folk music|folk]] [[musician]], a [[Christian]], was born at [[Camden Town]], [[London]], on [[6 May]] [[1915]], and died [[13 March]] [[2004]].
Sydney Carter is best known for two songs:
*''[[One More Step (song)|One More Step]] along the road I go...''
*''[[Lord Of The Dance (song)|Lord Of The Dance]]'' (1963), an adaptation of the [[Shaker]] hymn ''Simple Gifts'' featured in [[Aaron Copland]]'s [[ballet]] [[Appalachian Spring]].
==Education==
*[[Islington]]
*[[Christ's Hospital]] school in [[Horsham]], West [[Sussex]]
*University: read [[history]] at [[Balliol College]], [[Oxford]] (1930s)
==Work==
*teaching at Frensham Heights school, in [[Farnham]], [[Surrey]] (1940s);
*service in [[World War II]] with the [[Friends' Ambulance Unit]] in the [[Middle East]] and [[Greece]];
*lyricist for [[Donald Swann]]'s reviews and musicals (1950s);
*[[1962]] album ''Putting Out The Dustbin'' with Sheila Hancock, with the song ''Last Cigarette'' on failing to give up smoking that became a minor hit;
*[[1964]] composed six songs for the Donald Swann EP, ''Songs Of Faith And Doubt'';
*[[critic]] for Gramophone magazine;
*[[1965]] wrote the six-song EP album ''Lord Of The Dance'' with Martin Carthy on guitar, the Johnny Scott Trio and the Mike Sammes singers;
==Personal==
*1999 - [[Alzheimer's disease]]
*Family:
**second wife: Leela Carter
***son: Michael Carter - [[neurosurgeon]]
[[Category:1915 births|Carter, Sydney Bertram]]
[[Category:2004 deaths|Carter, Sydney Bertram]]
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