(from
eddireader.com)
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
EDDI
READER
CELTIC
CONNECTIONS
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