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Celtic Connections’ celebration of Robert Burns for Homecoming Scotland 2009 would hardly be complete without Eddi Reader, whose latter-day love-affair with the ploughman poet was launched right here in the Concert Hall, back in January 2003.

Later that year, the album Eddi Reader Sings the Songs of Robert Burns was hailed as another landmark in her wide-ranging career, which began with 1980s chart-toppers Fairground Attraction and has since seen her recognised as one of Scotland’s all-time great song interpreters.

Along with several friends from the folk world, Eddi is joined tonight by the Orchestra of Scottish Opera, reprising the acclaimed arrangements created for that original concert by the late Kevin McCrae.

Crafting melodies and lyrics reminiscent of classic 1970s acoustic pop, Tennessean singer-songwriter Robby Hecht has already won comparisons with early James Taylor and Paul Simon, while Hooked on Music praised his 2008 debut album, Late Last Night, as “elegant and sublime…nothing less than a timeless jewel.”

Tickets:  £22