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Trio confirmed for Cropredy
Eddi Reader will be performing with Boo Hewerdine and Colin Reid at Fairport Convention's Cropredy Festival, near Banbury in Oxfordshire, on Saturday, August 10. They will be on stage at 3.30pm.
Ticket information from http://www.folkcorp.co.uk/woodworm/
crop2002.htm

July 12, 2002

Eddi confirms Irish shows
Eddi Reader will be making her first extended visit to Ireland in July with a four-date tour starting at Whelan's in Dublin and including the Galway Arts Festival. Eddi will be accompanied throughout by Boo Hewerdine and Colin Reid.

Following the tour of Ireland, Eddi will be off to Trowbridge in England, for the Trowbridge Festival. Please check out our On The Road section for full dates and box office numbers, or chat about the upcoming tour with fellow enthusiasts in our Guestbook.

June 25, 2002

More dates announced
Eddi will be playing dates in Scotland, Spain and England in the summer, including the Shetland Festival on April 27 and 28, Burns And A' That at Culzean Castle on May 3, Ayr on May 4, Cuenca, San Sebastian, Onate, and Bilbao in Spain on May 28-June 1, and the Newark on Water Festival in England on June 9. See our On The Road section.

April 2, 2002

Eddi features on 1 Giant Leap
The voice of Eddi Reader features on two tracks on a new collaborative album, 1 Giant Leap (PalmCD 2077-2), a fusion of words, music, rhythms and images from around the globe with the theme Unity in Diversity. Eddi appears on Daphne (with the Mahotella Queens and Revetti Sakalar), and Ghosts. To find out more about the 1 Giant Leap multimedia project, please visit http://www.1giantleap.tv and http://www.palmpictures.com

Already out in the UK, the CD is released in the USA on April 9. A DVD follows two weeks later.
As well as Eddi, more than 50 musicians, authors, storytellers and spiritual leaders participated in 1 Giant Leap, including Michael Stipe, Kurt Vonnegut, Robbie Williams, Tom Robbins, Anita Roddick, Speech (Arrested Development), Dennis Hopper, Brian Eno, Stewart Copeland, and Asha Bhosle.

Streaming audio/video from the album
Braided Hair (Speech and Neneh Cherry):

RealPlayer
for 28k connections:
rtsp://real01.bluetape.com/1glbS20.rm
for 56k connections:
rtsp://real01.bluetape.com/1glbS40.rm
for ISDN connections:
rtsp://real01.bluetape.com/1glbS80.rm
for Broadband (i.e., DSL/T1) connections:
rtsp://real01.bluetape.com/1glbS200.rm

Braided Hair MP3:
Visit http://www.girlieaction.com/1%20giant%20leap/leap-index-new.html

April 2 , 2002

Online interview
An interview with Eddi was broadcast on lunchtime Scotland Today this afternoon. It is now available to watch (in RealVideo) and read on the Scotland Today website at http://scotlandtoday.scottishtv.co.uk/digging/dd8-2-2002-16-13-2.shtml

February 8, 2002

February in the City of Love
Glasgow, Scotland, seeks to show another side to its tough image by staging the City of Love Festival on February 13 (see Tour Dates). As part of the celebrations Eddi, Boo and Colin will be performing in St Andrews in the Square around 8pm (20:00hrs). Box office details added.

January 31, 2002

Burns Night TV appearance
Eddi joins Michael Marra and Friends Sing Robert Burns on BBC Scotland television on Friday, February 25. The show goes out at 11.05pm (23:05hrs), so if you're in Scotland, tune in!

January 18, 2002

March 2002 tour dates announced
Australia and Japan are the next ports of call for Eddi Reader. She'll be performing there in March with Boo Hewerdine and Colin Reid in support of the release of Simple Soul (see Albums) in Australia, and Driftwood in Japan. Melbourne, Port Fairy, Sydney and Canberra in Australia are confirmed, as are shows in Osaka and Tokyo in Japan. See On The Road.

January 2002

Eddi ponders next albums...
Eddi Reader is considering several possible album projects for 2002. "I am thinking about recording a traditional Scottish album and an album of torch songs," she said in December. "Both of these albums would be songs I have collected and sung for years."

Other possible projects might include another album of original material, and perhaps even a collaboration with other artists. Keep checking this web site for updates in the New Year.

December 2001

More UK dates for the autumn
Eddi Reader continues her live dates in the UK with an autumn schedule taking in Bristol, Portsmouth, Wolverhampton, Brighton, Colchester, Liverpool, Newcastle, Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Glasgow, Dunfermline, Inverness, Northampton, York and London.

The dates follow on from her hugely successful appearance at the Edmonton Folk Music Festival in Canada in August, with Boo Hewerdine and Colin Reid. For all the latest dates, and an idea of how many performances Eddi and the guys have played already this year, see the On The Road section. Wherever possible this section includes box office phone numbers and/or links to web sites for information and ticket-buying.

The tours follow the recent release of Eddi's beautiful new album, Simple Soul - see Albums for track listing and background - and successful short tours of the USA in February (and again in May) and Japan in early March. It's been a busy year.

If you missed her earlier appearance at Cabot Hall in London on February 1 you can still see an archived webcast of the show. Visit www.virtuetv.com/music/concerts/eddireader/index.asp. Performing with Eddi were Boo Hewerdine, Roy Dodds, Tim Harries, Johnny Scott and Graham Hendersen. You'll need the free RealPlayer installed on your computer to see the video, but the VirtueTV site includes a link to the download page.

September 2001