Pre-order Too Long Away
If you want to be first in line to get your copy then it is available to pre-order now from Amazon, Play and HMV online.

Iain Anderson’s Album of the Week
I’m delighted to let you know that ‘Too Long Away’ will be album of the week on Iain Anderson’s show on BBC Radio Scotland in a couple of weeks time.
For those who can’t tune in the old fashioned way, you can listen online at:
http://www.bbc/co.uk/radioscoltand

Home Town Album Launch
To mark the release of the new album I will be holding a launch concert in my old school  - Wallace Hall Academy, Thornhill – on Saturday 26th April.  This is the third time I have performed a Thornhill show and it’s looking to be a great night with the full band.  To start us off we have local young musicians David Kennedy on accordion and singer Emma Ackland.

Songs of Praise this Sunday
In October 2007 Jamie and I were involved in recording 2 songs for BBC One’s programme ‘Songs of Praise’.  The first song was aired last year and this coming Sunday’s episode (20th April) will feature the second song.  The episode will be presented by Sally Magnusson and will feature various landmarks in Edinburgh.  Look out for some footage of Jamie and I pretending to be tourists on The Royal Mile…..I haven’t seen it myself but I’m sure there will be plenty of cheesy smiles!
The programme will be shown on BBC One at 5.30pm.
Or you can always watch it at your leisure through the BBC’s iplayer: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/

In store Appearance
If you can’t make the launch gig then here’s some advance notice that I’ll be doing an in-store appearance in Coda Music/Mound Music in Edinburgh on Saturday 31st May.  I’ll be playing some songs live in store and generally be up for a blether with some celebratory!

Short Film
If you haven’t already, please check out the short film on my site which was made about my music, background and influences.  The film features footage of my home region in Scotland and shows the landscape on a very dreich misty day back in February.  Also now online is footage of some of the songs I performed at my Celtic Connections gig earlier this year.
To view please go to: http://www.emilysmith.org/Video.html

I have a mixture of duo gigs with Jamie McClennan as well as some full band gigs coming up over the next few weeks.  Full details are listed to the left hand side.
I’ll leave you for now with warm spring wishes.

Hope to see you all soon!
Emily x