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MUSIC
Mon 8 February 2010 at 8pm
Eddi Reader
Tickets: €20
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Scottish folk music legend and former Fairground Attraction singer makes her debut An Grianán appearance.
She is the recipient of three Brit Awards and has topped both the album and singles charts. In 2003 she showcased the works of Scotland's national poet, Robert Burns.
Since the early 1980s, Eddi has helped to define the landscape in which folk artists and singer-songwriters navigate. Her incomparable voice and positive outlook have been a much loved fixture in the British music scene since her band, Fairground Attraction, hit the charts with the song "Perfect" in 1988.
After Fairground Attraction's breakup, Reader ventured onto a solo career, to the delight of both fans and critics, including her internationally acclaimed release ‘The Songs Of Robert Burns’.
"I was asked to sing with the Scottish National Orchestra who were doing a Burns festival. So I maybe had four Burns songs, then I thought well if I had eight I could do a gig, then there were ten... The songs just landed in my lap really, and I got the idea that I could do a record."
Not only was the record rapturously received, it kept selling. "I think possibly I got a good reaction 'cos I was just trying to do something beautiful. I'm not really interested in anything else other than it's beautiful, cos if it's not, I'm hiding under the bed, I can't listen to it. I've got to try and do that. And I had fun with it as well."
Eddi was born in Glasgow, the daughter of a welder, and the eldest of seven children (her brother, Francis, is vocalist with the band Trashcan Sinatras). She began playing the guitar at the age of ten, and started her musical career busking, first in Glasgow’s Sauchiehall Street, then in the early 1980s around Europe (where she also worked with circus and performance artists).
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