Eleanor McEvoy starting tour at Birmingham Glee club

Irish singer-songwriter Eleanor McEvoy is starting a tour to promote her new album Alone at Birmingham's Glee Club in September.

McEvoy will play Birmingham Glee on Wednesday, September 21, 2011 in a 16-date UK tour which also takes in Oswestry Ironworks on Thursday, October 6, 2011.

Alone, which is released on September 12, 2011, is McEvoy's ninth studio album, a collection of 12 stripped-down solo tracks, including the new single You'll Hear Better Songs (Than This), A Woman's Heart and a unique take on PF Sloan's Eve Of Destruction.

One of Ireland's most accomplished singer/songwriters, McEvoy's life as a musician began at the age of four. To date, she has released albums on the Geffen and Columbia record labels and continues to tour the world over to her ever increasing legion of fans.

McEvoy wrote and recorded the worldwide hit single A Woman's Heart which was the title track on the album Only A Woman's Heart, the best-selling Irish album in Irish chart history.

She says of Alone: "There was a time when I was stranded in a long gap between tour dates and, with time to kill, I headed for the peace of The Grange; a small studio tucked away in the Norfolk countryside.

"In the converted barn, alone except for Dave the engineer, I stepped up to the microphone and sang my songs.

"My state of mind wasn't the brightest, but there was a certain something about being in the studio with no agenda, no deadline, no pressure, it just came out."

• Eleanor McEvoy plays Birmingham Glee, The Arcadian, Birmingham B5 4TD, on Wednesday, September 21, 2011. Tickets are £10 from 0871 472 0400 / www.glee.co.uk

• McEvoy also plays Oswestry Ironworks, Church Street, Oswestry SY11 2SP, on Thursday, October 6, 2011. Tickets are £10 from 01691 679123 / www.the-ironworks.co.uk

• Official Website: www.eleanormcevoy.com