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Eddi connects with Robbie Burns
Eddi will be putting on a special performance as part of Glasgow's Celtic
Connections Festival on January 24, 2003. Accompanied by performers from
the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and special guests, and performing
on Burns Night Eve at Glasgow's Royal Concert Hall, Eddi will be singing
material from the collection of Robert Burns songs she has been compiling
throughout 2002.
Eddi has discovered in Burns something that she believes has been overlooked in the approach to his work and she believes that her interpretations of his poetry will reach more ears than have previously heard him.
She explains: "I sang My Love's Like a Red, Red Rose to a bunch of 'worse for the drink' people in a bar in Glasgow one cold January night and I felt something happening between me and the words and the people listening, something profoundly moving. After all my travels singing songs to people, I recognised this as being a vein of emotional gold as yet unmined ... I began to be spooked by him and started on a journey to find him, Robert, the guy from Ayrshire that I would have drunk with, walked with and probably got into trouble with. I wanted to show him off to everyone, sit folk down and say 'no! no! listen, listen, really listen, listen to this...'"
Following the concert Eddi will be going into the studio with the RSNO
performers, to record an album of the material due for release in May/June
2003.
January 24, 2003
Eddi Reader Sings Robert Burns
The Glasgow Royal Concert Hall
2 Sauchiehall Street
Glasgow
G2 3NY
Scotland
Telephone: +44 (0)141 353 8000
http://www.celticconnections.co.uk
November 29, 2002
Cabot Hall webcast
If you missed the webcast of Eddi's show at Cabot Hall, London, in
February 2001, and have had trouble finding the archived version, the
location of the video streams has been moved to www.virtuetv.com/music/concerts/eddireader/eddireader2.asp.
You will need either the RealPlayer or Windows Media Player to view the
video, which is available for low, medium or high bandwidth internet connections.
November 22, 2002
Glasgow show set for Christmas
Eddi is to play King Tut's Wah Wah Hut in Glasgow on December
23. Please see the On The Road section
for details.
November 22, 2002
Omagh Festival confirmed
Eddi, Boo and Colin will play the Omagh Festival on October 31. Please
see the On The Road section for details.
September 10, 2002
Boo's charity show
The HUGS charity which works on behalf of children with autism will host
a Boo Hewerdine performance of his own work, in Norwich, England, in October.
The venue is the Norwich Assembly House, Theatre St. Telephone 01603 626402. Date: Friday, 11 October, 2002.
Tickets are £6.50 from the Assembly House and Jokat Management 01603 452850. Doors open 7.30 pm for 8 pm.
September 10, 2002
Eddi live on webcast The Mike Harding Show
Eddi Reader, accompanied by Boo Hewerdine and Colin Reid, is confirmed
to perform three songs live on The Mike Harding Show on BBC Radio 2 between
8pm and 9pm on Wednesday, 25 September.
The show will be transmitted in front of a live audience from The Ulster Hall, Bedford Street, Belfast, Co. Antrim in Northern Ireland.
Tickets for the show are FREE and are available by calling (UK) 08700 100 150. Tickets are limited to two tickets per caller. Also performing on the same show are Cara Dillon and Dervish.
The show will be webcast on BBC Online before the end of the week of the performance. Check out www.bbc.co.uk/radio2
September 04, 2002
Eddi at Cropredy
Eddi is top of the crops, at Cropredy Festival in August.
Photo by: Mark Hadley. www.thephotoagency.co.uk
September 04, 2002
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