Edwina Hayes numbers Michael Parkinson and Perez Hilton among her fans. Her beautifully written songs and charming stage presence have won her a reputation as a true natural talent of gentle folk-americana. She has opened numerous shows for Jools Holland and Van Morrison and the title song of her album Pour Me A Drink was covered by Nanci Griffith who calls her 'the sweetest voice in England'. Her cover of the Randy Newman song 'Feels Like Home' was featured in the Cameron Diaz film My Sister's Keeper and has since had over two million plays on You Tube.
Michael Parkinson - 'A very talented young lady'
Nanci Griffith - 'The sweetest voice in England. A wonderful young woman, so gifted and full of song, with a voice as sweet as the angels'
Perez Hilton - 'Like a soft blanket'
The Guardian - 'Haunting honeyed solo songwriter'
Latest News...
Edwina joined Martin Pierson and Rab Noakes in the BBC Radio Humberside Studio today for an interview about Folk Music with the lovely David Burns on his morning show. You can listen to the interview on the BBC i-player until Tuesday 14th February by Clicking Here and the segment starts around 2.32 hours into the show.
My wonderful cousin Georgina Hayes rasied a total of £2,153.32 at her charity fundraiser on January 20th and will set off later this month to climb Mount Kilimanjaro. For more info and details of her amazing expedition please Click Here.
Love Edwina xx
Edwina did an interview for BBC Radio Guernsey live from Guernsey Airport last Friday, before that evening's charity concert at The Captain's organised by Edwina's cousin Georgie Hayes. Click Here to hear the interview on BBC i-player 'listen again' till 31st January, the interview starts around 2.39 minutes into the programme, just after 'Working My Way Back To You Babe' by the Detroit Spinners. :o)
Tickets are now on sale for Edwina's London gig on Saturday March 24th at The Virtually Acoustic Club, Kiss The Sky, Hampstead. Full details of the gig can be found over on the Gigs page and to order tickets please click the following link:
Lots more gigs have been added to the Gigs page including Scotland, Milton Keynes, Oxford, Kent, London, Darlington, Merseyside and many more! Please see Gigs page for details...
This is a video taken by the lovely Kenny Mach at the equally lovely Ian James's Birthday Party in Rugby a few months ago.
The lovely Janice Long played Feels Like Home on her BBC Radio 2 show last night after hearing Edwina sing at Alex and Kerry's lovely wedding on Saturday. You can listen again to the show on Janice's Radio 2 Page and you can hear Janice chatting about the wedding and playing Feels Like Home from around 15 minutes in and the link will be active till Sunday 11th December.
Edwina's Good Thing Happen Over Coffee album is digitally released worldwide today. Please feel free to have a listen below.
The lovely Steve Rudd has reviewed Good Things Happen Over Coffee. You can read Steve's review over on the Press page.
Edwina's first album Out On My Own, which has been out of print for quite a while now, is still available to order from CPR Entertainment who have a few copies left in stock. CPR Entertainment is a Nashville based company owned by Tommy Emmanuel's lovely manager Gina Mendello and you can order a copy by Clicking Here.
(Many Thanks to the lovely chap at The Lights in Andover and to Brian in Colne for the reminders to share this link!)
In some very exciting news just in, the Black Swan Folk Club Bob Dylan tribute album 'Younger Than That Now' is now available to buy x It features 31 artists all doing a song by His Bobness and Edwina does It Aint Me Babe x All the proceeds from album sales will go to Oxfam. You can have a look and listen to the songs on Amazon by Clicking Here.
A lovely lady called Noelle has made a You Tube page and popped the songs from Edwina's three CDs up on there. You can have a look and listen by Clicking Here .
Good Things Happen Over Coffee is now availble to buy from Amazon x You can see the listing by Clicking Here .
The wonderful Iain Anderson played 'Nobody's Coming Around' last night on his BBC Radio Scotland Radio Show. You can listen again to the show until teatime on Tuesday the 26th April by Clicking Here .
Edwina has been invited to support the brilliant Martin Simpson at The Red Lion Folk Club in Birmingham on September 28th. Please see Gigs page for details.
Lots more Gigs have been added to the Gigs page! Edwina has also been confirmed to play at The Grassington Festival in June, Stainsby Folk Festival in July, Greenbelt Festival in August and The Mendip Folk Festival in September, and more dates are being added weekly. Please see the Gigs page for details.
The lovely Iain Anderson has been playing songs from Good Things Happen Over Coffee on his BBC Radio Scotland Radio Show. For info about Iain's show and to listen online please Click Here .
Edwina has been invited to perform Feels Like Home at the Royal Albert Hall on Thursday December 9th at a Charity Concert called 'Christmas Carols with the Stars'. The event is sold out sadly but you can read about it on the Albert Hall website.
Edwina's new album Good Things Happen Over Coffee is now available to order!
The official release date will be 11th February 2011 when it will be available to buy on i-tunes, amazon mp3, and many other retailers worldwide. Till then it is available to buy here on the website by clicking the link below.
As always, worldwide shipping is available when ordering here on the website.
Please note that the last guaranteed posting dates for Christmas this year are:
UK - 21st December
Europe - 11th December
USA - 10th December
Worldwide - 8th December
To order a copy of Good Things Happen Over Coffee please click here:
Good Things Happen Over Coffee Track Listing:
1. Nobody's Coming Around
2. Famous Blue Raincoat
3. Tell Me So
4. Speed of the Sound of Loneliness
5. What Happens Now
6. Long Highway
7. Baught and Sold
8. Bend in the Road
9. Love Unknown
10. Go Crazy
11. I Can't Stop Loving You
'Nobody's Coming Around', the first song from Edwina's new album, is now available to listen to on the music page. Please feel free to pop and have a listen!
Following several requests, the instrumental version of Feels Like Home is now available to download from i-tunes, Amazon mp3 and many other download retailers.
Here is a link to the page on Amazon mp3: Instrumental Feels Like Home
The lovely filmaker Lydia Esler has made a video for Edwina's song 'Want You To Stay'.
Edwina will be supporting the lovely Cara Dillon at the Liverpool and Leamington Spa concerts of her forthcoming UK Tour in June and July. For all details please see the Gigs page!
Edwina's Tomintoul Gig was sadly cancelled today due to the heavy snow around Aviemore and has been rescheduled to Saturday May 29th. All tickets holders have been contacted and hope to see you all in May for a lovely evening x
Edwina will be one of many local artists performing on Wednesday January 20th at The Evil Eye Bar in York to raise money for the Haiti Earthquake Appeal. Please come along if you can:
The Evil Eye
42 Stonegate
York
YO1 8AS
Tel: 01904 640 002
Lots of new dates for 2010 have been added to the Gigs page including Maidstone and Howden in March... Wakefield and Nottingham in April... Basingstoke in June... and Sedgefield Folk Festival and Helmsley Arts Folk Weekend in September...
More Gigs to follow!
Edwina has been invited to support the brilliant and lovely Nanci Griffith on her UK January/February 2010 Tour. The Gigs page has been updated with all the details of all the shows!
Ryedale Live have just released a double Compilation Christmas CD made up of songs donated by artists who've performed at the club over the past 18 months. Its been put together by Rob Davies and the Ryedale Live Team to raise money for Ryedale Special Families.
The CD is £7.99 and is available to buy from Borders and Banks Music in York and from Hoppers Newsagents in Malton or by simply emailing mail@ryedalelive.co.uk or phoning 01653 690503 to order via the internet or by telephone.
Edwina chose Joni Mitchell's The River for her contribution and on a personal note is thrilled to be included in a CD featuring so many fantastic friends and artists including David Ward Maclean, Holly Taymar, Paul Liddell, Andy Stones, Val Marshall, Stan Graham, Anna Shannon, Dave Swann, Eoghan Colgan, Katriona Gilmore & Jamie Roberts to name but a few!
Rob was a guest on BBC Radio York last night and you can hear him being interviewed and chatting about it all by clicking the 'listen again' link below and going to 1.09 minutes into the show. You can also hear Edwina's version of The River a little later on in the interview and you can tune in to listen again to the show till next Monday teatime, 23rd November.
Please do get a CD if you can! Its a bargain at £7.99 and its for such a good cause!
To listen again please Click Here.
My Sister's Keeper, the film featuring Edwina's version of Feels Like Home, will be released on DVD in the UK on November 23rd and in the USA on November 17th and will be available to order from Amazon and most online retailers.
Edwina will be playing a gig in Austin Texas on Wednesday November 4th at Sam's Town Point. See Gigs page for details!
Edwina will be in America for all of October catching up with friends in Nashville and doing one or two shows around the country. Stayed tuned to the Gigs page for last minute roadhouse and coffeeshop shows!
Tickets for Moonbeams Acoustic on November 13th, the first show of Edwina's Winter Tour are now available to order by clicking here:
Tickets for the London show on November 28th are also still available from the Gigs page but there are only 16 left!
Edwina will be supporting the lovely Texan singer/songwriter Sam Baker for the third time at the Musician in Leicester on September 3rd as he tours the UK with his new album Cotton. See Gigs page for details.
Edwina's version of Feels Like Home reached Number 2 in the UK i-tunes Singer/Songwriter Chart and Number 3 in the US i-tunes Folk Chart.
Here is a clip from My Sister's Keeper featuring Feels Like Home. The film opens in cinemas on Friday June 26th.
Nanci Griffith's new album The Loving Kind is released today featuring Nanci's version of Edwina's song Pour Me A Drink. You can listen to a snippet on Amazon.com by clicking here.
The Motion Picture Soundtrack for My Sister's Keeper is now available to order from Amazon.com by clicking here.
Edwina played a couple of songs on this weeks BBC Radio Humberside's Raw Talent show, in the last 20 minutes of the programme and you can listen again until Sunday 23rd May by clicking here.
Pour Me A Drink is now available to download from i-tunes by clicking here.
Pour Me A Drink is now available to download from Amazon mp3 by clicking here.
Edwina has been confirmed as tour support for Roger McGuinn on his June UK Tour. For details of the tourdates please see the Gigs page.
The trailer for the upcoming film My Sister's Keeper has now been released and the film will be in UK and US cinemas on 26th June, and Australian cinemas on 30th July. The film features Edwina's version of Randy Newman's 'Feels Like Home' from her Pour Me A Drink CD.
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