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About Me

Eve Williams is a singer and songwriter from County Down in Northern Ireland. Her music is greatly influenced by a jazz, blues and rock, with a hint of the Celtic music of her home.After being classically trained and performing for 5 years with Belfast Philharmonic Society, Eve received a prestigious Arts Council Grant to study voice at Oxenfoord Summer School. Eve then began to perform jazz with Lucy's Jazz Band in the North Coast and Limavady Alternative Jazz Festival. She was also a member of the Symbolics. Eve has also appeared in filmscore and in folk ensembles. She often collaborates with the blues pianist, Darren Matthews. Eve, Darren and band headlined the 'Deep River' concert in Ards Arts Centre in August 2004.Eve is noted for her technical virtuosity and the diversity of material she has performed, being as at home with opera or oratorio as disco, jazz and folk. Her voice spans an impressive range of nearly four octaves, which gives her much melodic scope as a singer-songwriter. She currently teaches voice.Eve's skills as a songwriter are currently displayed in her self-titled EP being sold in aid of Jigsaw Northern Ireland, an organisation founded by Eve's late father to benefit isolated people with disabilities and their carers. In 2007, Eve received an Honorable Mention in the 14th Annual Billboard Songwriting Contest.To join Eve's mailing list email [email protected] .
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Eve's CDs can be purchased at http://cdbaby.com/cd/evewilliams and on iTunes.

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Member Since: 3/10/2006
Band Website: eve-williams.com
Band Members: Darren Matthews - keyboards, plus a bit of co-writing Steven McKnight, Victor Henriquez,Ian McNeill - guitar Dave Robinson, Darren matthews - bass Jason Gordon, Paul Westwood - drums and percussion Trevor Donaghy- drums Paula Williams - backing vocals
Influences: Many and varied !!! My inspirations would be God, and my late father (who introduced me to Cream) and grandfather (who taught me self-expression through music).Musically speaking, I own around 3000 CDs of every imaginable genre. The first music I ever encountered was traditional Irish music which I would have been made to sing from my infancy at family gatherings, the soundtrack to 'Grease'and Abba. I'm a passionate jazz devotee, a singer of the blues and some-one who has a compartment in her soul especially for opera.My favourite bands include Cream, the Divine Comedy, Muse, Radiohead and much much more. My favourite composers include Mendelsohn, Mahler, Verdi, Beethoven and Vaughan Williams. Oh, and Tchaikovsky. I love Ella Fitgerald, Peggy Lee, Chet Baker, Miles Davis and Nat King Cole. Listening to Etta James sing gospel is another of my life's pleasures.Some of my favourite albums include Kosheen's 'Kokopelli', Robert Randolph and the Family Band's 'Live at the Wetlands', Radiohead's 'The Bends' and at the moment Fiona Apple's'Extraordinary Machine'.Ofcourse, ask me on another day and I'll give you completely different lists.
Sounds Like: Nobody else you can think of, really.
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Youtube

I've posted 3 videos up on youtube. My channel is here: http://uk.youtube.com/profile?user=SongofEve It's nearly as addictive as myspace.......
Posted by Eve Williams on Sun, 23 Sep 2007 05:12:00 PST

Phantom of the Opera

Ok, I've gone back to my school days and started singing Andrew Lloyd Webber in my spare time! you can hera me do a song from Phantom of the Opera at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xO_3yl2PpU ....
Posted by Eve Williams on Fri, 21 Sep 2007 06:22:00 PST

I am most disgruntled

...because a very loud choir played for an hour and a half this eveing OUTSIDE MY HOUSE. C'mon, folks, people have to live here! I couldn't even hear my iPod. No moatter how musically brilliant y...
Posted by Eve Williams on Sat, 25 Aug 2007 02:40:00 PST

Billboard International Song Contest

I got an honourable mention in the Billboard Contest, which is a bit of an achievement. Yay!
Posted by Eve Williams on Mon, 07 May 2007 07:45:00 PST

Walking in Crawfordsburn

I went to you grave yesterday, or maybe it was last week or a month ago. I saw the few meagre words that we could fit onto a piece of stone which are meant to be a memorial to you, a testimony n...
Posted by Eve Williams on Sat, 27 Jan 2007 04:30:00 PST

The Gospel According to You

According to Channem 4 , Hitler 'is said to have viewed' a Passion play in the week leading up to Easter, hence the Holocaust. If any-one made a reference like this in an academic environment, they wo...
Posted by Eve Williams on Sat, 23 Dec 2006 01:25:00 PST

Insulin is for life, not just for parties

I received a complaint from a job I did recently because I injected myself with insulin and somebody saw me. Get a life! I really needed the injection - passing out or vomitting is much more antisocia...
Posted by Eve Williams on Tue, 19 Dec 2006 02:32:00 PST

Belfast Rape Crisis Centre

I'd much rather people gave a couple of quid to Belfast Rape Crisis and Sexual Abuse Centre than gave me a Christmas present. Not that I don't appreciate all the presents I've gotten over the years!
Posted by Eve Williams on Tue, 12 Dec 2006 08:25:00 PST

Laura's new song

Click on Laura Stevenson's page and listen to 'Coming Home'. You know you want to.
Posted by Eve Williams on Sun, 12 Nov 2006 02:37:00 PST

Attention all nutters

There are many reasons why people sign up for myspace. Personally, I signed up for musical reasons, so to those of you who signed up because it's cheaper than a dating site, please go sell your wares ...
Posted by Eve Williams on Thu, 02 Nov 2006 02:21:00 PST