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Colvin promises an intimate setting for tonight's show
By Steve Gillespie / managing editor

Shawn Colvin is looking forward to playing the MSU Riley Center tonight.

In a telephone interview Thursday the multiple Grammy winner and singer/songwriter, best known for her 1996 top 10 hit "Sonny Came Home," said she's never been to Meridian before but that she's heard the MSU Riley Center is a nice venue.

The audience can look forward to an all-acoustic show tonight, a foreshadowing of Colvin's live, solo, all-acoustic album scheduled for release in the spring.

"I'll do selections from all of my records and there will be some surprise covers," she said. "It will be a pretty intimate show."

Penny Kemp, marketing director for the MSU Riley Center, said the renovated theater is the perfect environment for Colvin's show.

A video clip of Colvin is available on the MSU Meridian Web site at www.msurileycenter.com.

Tonight's show starts at 8 p.m. Ticket-holders may attend a pre-show social at the MSU Riley Center that starts at 6:30 p.m. with complementary hors d'oeuvres and a cash bar. Tickets are $35 and $41.

Colvin and writer/producer David Mirkin are now collaborating on a one-woman theatrical show. She plans to go back on the road in the summer both headlining shows and opening for Stevie Nicks and Lyle Lovett. The “Three Girls and Their Buddy” group, which features Colvin, Emmylou Harris, Patty Griffin, and Buddy Miller, will tour again later this year and early 2009.

Colvin also is creating material for her next studio project.

"Currently I'm writing, getting ready to do another record. I'm not sure who will produce it," she said.

Most of what she's been listening to lately has been herself, as the live album has been put together. Other than that she's listening to The Be Good Tanyas, Rufus Wainwright, Leonard Cohen and Stevie Wonder.

"Steady On" was Colvin's debut album, released in 1989, which brought her the first of three Grammy wins for "Best Contemporary Folk Album." In 1998 her song "Sunny Came Home" won Record of the Year and Song of the Year at the Grammys.

Colvin also has received six other Grammy nominations ranging in the categories of Best Contemporary Folk Recording, Best Contemporary Folk Album, Best Pop Album, and three nominations for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance.

Combined sales of her eight albums total more than 2.5 million copies in the United States. She continues to perform 50 to 60 shows a year at venues that range from 500-3,000 seats. She has shared the stage and toured with Jackson Browne, Bonnie Raitt, Bruce Hornsby, Emmylou Harris, and Lyle Lovett.

For more information on Shawn Colvin visit her Web site at www.shawncolvin.com.