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New tour dates Friday 25th November 2011 Eddi is performing at Hogmanay at Stirling Castle. She also joins a host of international musicians in the Transatlantic Sessions gigs in Glasgow and on tour. Her annual Irish tour and bi-annual Australian tour dates have all just been added to the 'One the Road' section of the website. Ian Carr will be joining Eddi, Alan and Boo for the Australian dates.

Alan Kelly Gang with Eddi Reader and John Douglas - additional date! Wednesday 28th September 2011 After a hugely successful 10 date tour of Ireland, Eddi and John Douglas will again join the Alan Kelly Gang on 18th October at the Grand Social, Dublin, for this very special concert. Tickets are now available from www.entertainment.ie, Claddagh Records, and The Grand Social, Liffey Street, Dublin.

Alan Kelly Gang with Eddi Reader in Ireland Wednesday 3rd August 2011 Eddi Reader and, Trashcan Sinatra guitarist, John Douglas will join the Alan Kelly Gang on a very special Irish/Scottish 2011 collaboration tour of Ireland. The tour will mark the release of The Alan Kelly Gangs first official band album, Small Towns & Famous Nights (due out Sept 1st 2011), which features a beautiful evocative song from Eddi Reader called Connemara. Since 2005 Alan has toured the world as part of the Eddi Reader Band and recorded on her last four albums. His friendship with Eddi first resulted in a beautiful collaboration on a song penned by John Douglas. The collaborative work I Hung My Harp Upon The Willows appears on Alan's 2009 album, After The Morning which was named as one of the top ten musical highs of 2009 by the Irish Times who described it as a humdinger of a collection.

Eddi's Scottish tour dates announced Thursday 7th April 2011 Eddi's winter Scottish tour dates have been announced and can be found in the 'on the road' page. The tickets go on sale on Friday 8th April from 10am. Tickets can be purchased by telephone on 0871 220 0260 or online from See Tickets. Related links SeeTickets

Eddi portrait by broad daylight now in the National Portrait Gallery in London Thursday 7th April 2011 A portrait of Eddi by Edinburgh based broad daylight photographers Tricia Malley and Ross Gillespie has been purchased by the National Portrait Gallery in London. It is to be part of their permanent collection. The portrait was taken as part of the 'as others see us' project produced for the Burns Anniversary Homecoming year. The book  of the exhibition is available from broad daylight. Related links broad daylight

2011 tour dates Wednesday 15th December 2010 Eddi’s 2011 Irish tour in February and her Spring English tour dates are now on the tour dates page.

New live CD for sale - Live in Japan Wednesday 15th December 2010 Live in Japan – new live CD - available to purchase now from the merch page. Recorded from the sound desk at Eddi's successful Japan shows in September of last year, and mastered and mixed by Mark Freegard in Glasgow, "Live in Japan" covers a broad spectrum of Eddi’s career highs, from Fairground Attraction all the way to the recent Love is the Way. The album closes with a Japanese children's song, Usagi, sung a cappella with the audience. Eddi is joined by regular band members Roy Dodds, John Douglas, Boo Hewerdine, Alan Kelly and Kevin McGuire.

Thomas Dolby Oceanea's EP Wednesday 15th December 2010 Eddi dueted with Thomas on this EP. She worked with him on his song Cruel in the 90s, and enjoyed revisiting that working relationship.  For more details go to Thomas's website. Related links Thomas Dolby

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