Beloved singer-songwriter Clare Bowditch will celebrate the life and music of legendary songbird Eva Cassidy.
The creators of Helpmann Award-winning The Man In Black, the hit stage show featuring Tex Perkins as Johnny Cash, have enlisted Bowditch for Eva – Tales From The Life Of Eva Cassidy.
US jazz, soul and blues vocalist Eva Cassidy was discovered after her tragically early death in 1996, when her version of ‘Over The Rainbow’ was played by Terry Wogan on BBC Radio 2 and became a massive hit in the UK.
A compilation album of her renditions, Songbird, was a number one hit in UK and around the world three years after its release, as people everywhere discovered an amazingly talented singer all too late.
Bowditch says in a press release, “The Eva Cassidy story is not only the tale of Eva Cassidy, but also a broader discussion-piece about the very nature of fame. Could it be that our obsession with ‘modern day celebrities’ is really just a guise for the larger search for meaning? Many of us yearn to be ‘special’. What Eva's story shows us is that ‘special’ is often found hiding in the most ‘normal’ of human beings. That’s what we hope to remind people of with this show.”
The show will feature her story and classics like ‘Fields of Gold’, ‘Somewhere Over The Rainbow’, ‘Hallelujah I Love Him So’, ‘Wade In The Water’ and more.
Tickets go on sale next Monday 6 June and Eva – Tales From The Life Of Eva Cassidy will run from Tuesday 9 to Sunday 21 August at Melbourne's Athanaeum Theatre.
VIDEO: Check out our chat with Bowditch below.
