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Ireland, Australia and New Zealand dates

Sunday 24th January 2010

Details of forthcoming tours in Ireland (February), Australia and New Zealand (March/April) can be found on Eddi's MySpace site - www.myspace.com/eddireader. The Ireland dates follow on from the Transatlantic Sessions UK Tour, which starts in Glasgow on 29th January - full details on MySpace.

Eddi and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Tuesday 24th November 2009

Ahead of her gig with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra at the Usher Hall in Edinburgh on Sunday 29 November, Eddi was interviewed by the BBC.

In the short clip below, Eddi shares her experiences of singing with an orchestra and how although she'd always dreamt of singing with an orchestra she never imagined singing folk songs would lead her down that path.

On the night, the BBC SSO play music from the recent TV series, A History of Scotland, accompanied by some of its stunning visuals.

As well as joining Eddi, the award winning orchestra, conducted by Robert Zeigler, will accompany, from Deacon Blue, Ricky Ross and Lorraine McIntosh aka McIntosh Ross and Belle & Sebastian's latest project God Help The Girl.

It will be a night of top quality Scottish music which spans traditional, contemporary, classical and indie.

Tickets cost £15, or £10 with concessions, and can be booked by calling the Usher Hall box office on 0131 228 1155.

Live Video Footage from Perthshire Amber Festival

Tuesday 3rd November 2009

Eddi recently performed at Dougie MacLeans' Perthshire Amber Festival. Video footage of all the performances including Eddi's can be watched online by subscribing at the following link:

www.live.perthshireamber.com/

Unfortunately there were some technical problems during Eddi's recording, so the sound quality is not 100% and distorting a bit during some of Eddi's songs - just to let you know in advance!

Me and Orson Welles Film

Tuesday 3rd November 2009

Eddi will be appearing in the film "Me And Orson Welles", which is out in cinemas nationwide on December 4th.

Jools Holland and his Rhythm & Blues Orchestra are to be seen on the silver screen this month. Set mostly in the legendary Mercury Theatre on New York's 41st Street, the story centres on Orson Welles' daring 1937 production of Shakespeare's 'Julius Caesar' and the involvement of a young aspiring actor in the show. Me and Orson Welles includes a stellar cast: teen sensation Zac Efron (High School Musical), Claire Danes (Romeo + Juliet), Ben Chaplin (Dorian Gray), and cinema screen debutant Christian McKay as an extraordinary, young Orson Welles at the peak of his creativity – and power.

Jools and the Rhythm & Blues Orchestra accompany chanteuse Eddi Reader in a swinging ballroom scene with Zac Efron and Claire Danes, vividly re-creating the tone and style of Manhattan's thrilling entertainment world. The Isle of Man's historic (and beautifully restored) Gaiety Theatre was the venue for the show-within-a-show's performances and backstage scenes, standing in for Welles' Mercury Theatre. A New York street was constructed at Pinewood Studios, while other scenes were shot around London including the British Museum, (representing the interior of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art), Bloomsbury Square and Crystal Palace Park. The film is directed by Richard Linklater, of School of Rock fame.

The soundtrack album is released in December on Universal Records and features some of the classic artists of the era including Fred Astaire, Tommy Dorsey, Count Basie, Benny Goodman, and Louis Armstrong. In such venerable company sits the musical collaboration between Jools, the Orchestra and Eddi Reader, immortalised on three tracks: Let's Pretend That There's a Moon; I Surrender Dear; and You Made Me Love You (I Didn't Want To Do It).

Eddi on STV's "The Greatest Scot" programme

Tuesday 3rd November 2009

STV is gearing up to find out who the nation thinks is, or was, our biggest hero.
30 names have been chosen by a panel of experts, led by the Right Honourable Sir Menzies Campbell CBE QC MP. The full list of names, complete with details of each finalist will be revealed on November 9th in the first of a 5 programme series. The programmes will run every day that week at 9pm on STV and will also be available to catch up with on the STV player. The public can then vote until November 22nd and the winner will be revealed on St. Andrew's Day, November 30th.

Eddi will feature on the first programme on November 9th.

More information on the series is available at scotland.stv.tv/greatest-scot/

Vote for Eddi in Ireland's Music Awards

Wednesday 17th June 2009

Eddi has been nominated for Best Female Vocalist in this year's Ireland’s Music Awards (IMA).

The IMAs are the Irish Traditional, Folk & Celtic Music Awards which honours the best loved musicians, vocalists, acts, producers, composers and life time achievers at a gala ceremony held in Ireland annually.

But it's you who will decide who wins!

Please head over to www.irelandsmusicawards.com/vote_now.php and give Eddi your vote.

Your vote won't register until you reply to the email so don't forget this part. You've got until 15 July 2009 to get your votes in.

The awards take place on Saturday August 1 2009 at the Royal Theatre Castlebar as part of the World Fleadh festival.

So what are you waiting for... get voting!

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