Carol Kidd at The Queens Hall

Launching her new album "Dreamsville", Carol Kidd returned to the live stage with a concert at The Queens Hall, Edinburgh. An audience of around 400 enthusiatic fans enjoyed almost two hours of a singer at the top of her form with her quartet. Her popularity was shown at the end of the perfomance as audience members queued for signed copies of the album.

The concert was reviewed in The Herald by Rob Adams:

"Carol Kidd has always been a bit of an enigma. There are those - and you can count your reviewer among them - who believe that, with her talent, Kidd could have gone to the top of the world's jazz singing tree. If she'd wanted to. Singing to promote her new album, "Dreamsville", her first after a lengthy lull following her partner's death, Kidd showed all the old magic - clear diction, telling phrasing, great pitch - and more.

Fine though "Dreamsville" is, Kidd singing to people as opposed to a studio wall produces an extra edge, a deeper human touch and some daring variations and elastic breathing. She was so good to begin with, and so at ease with her quartet, that one slightly skewed syllable stood out like a swearword on Songs of Praise. Her duet with bassist Tom Lyne on Bye Bye Blackbird was equal parts typically gallus fun and high art, and Stars Fell on Alabama was simply sublime."

Carol Kidd will perform at Glasgow Royal Concert Hall on Wednesday 12 November, 2008.