Eddi Reader News

THE new nine Honorary Members of Irvine Burns Club were announced at a lunch in the town on Friday.

The Homecoming Scotland Tartan Clef Awards kicked off tonight at The SECC in Glasgow as Scotland's great and good gathered to enjoy a fantastic evening of entertainment in aid of Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy in Scotland.

As Neil Oliver gives misconceptions about Battle of Culloden a whiff of revisionist grapeshot on his History of Scotland on television, singer Eddi Reader takes the Jacobite trail on Radio Scotland.

The wondrous Western Isles singer stays loyal to the yearning beauty of her Scots Gaelic heritage but, surrounded by virtuoso instrumentalists who recall some of the great Celtic bands of old, this is her most complete album, highlighted by stirring duets with Mary Smith and an Anglo-Gaelic masterclass with former Fairground Attraction singer Eddi ...

Organisers of the musical finale of the Homecoming celebration have defended the event's 1980s flavour amid fears of poor ticket sales.

Her latest album was the soundtrack to her marriage break-up, yet Eliza Carthy and her music emerge from the pain triumphant, she tells Chitra Ramaswamy 'I KNOW I'm an English singer-songwriter but this really is a love letter to Edinburgh," says Eliza Carthy of her new album, Dreams Of Breathing Underwater.

From Fairground Attraction to the Levellers to Boo Hewerdine, Eddi Reader has a knack for picking good partners.

SHE'S ONLY 21, BUT GLASWEGIAN singer-songwriter Maeve O'Boyle has already spent nearly a decade learning her craft, a head start now paying handsome dividends.

IT'S got to be... Perfect. Those were Eddie Reader's words after performing at the seventh annual Innerleithen Music Festival at the weekend.

IRVINE singer Eddi Reader has penned a new song to show her backing for the "Keep Johnnie Walker in Kilmarnock" campaign.

PRESSURE is mounting on Diageo in the fight to save jobs in Kilmarnock as celebrities join the many thousands lending their support to the Keep Johnnie Walker in Kilmarnock campaign.

IRVINE'S biggest community celebration, Marymass, is to host its second annual two-day music festival this year.

This week we review the latest albums from Eddi Reader, Motocade, Melanie Pain, Patrick Watson, and Fat Freddy's Drop.