Eddi Reader sings "Kiteflyer's Hill"

www.ted.com Singer/songwriter Eddi Reader performs "Kiteflyer's Hill," a tender look back at a lost love. With Thomas Dolby on piano.
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[@stevemarine8911]

Eddi Reader is my favorite vocalist of all time. Perfection. I'm glad she got to show off her talents for the TED crowd.

[@sfoster6796]

Without question one of the finest and most moving songs ever made. I buckle EVERY TIME. It means I cannot listen to it often. Pure emotion and poetry

[@olivedrah]

I have LOVED so MUCH, it was a great performance there. I discover this artist Eddi Reader these days and I love her voice and songs!!!! Fantastic!!!

[@leszektemplewicz3362]

She is!!!

[@jardinierdetournesol]

She should have been as big as Adele. I bought the CD this was on sometime in the late 1990’s. Oh she is so fabulous.

[@ms.communication8464]

I thank TEDtalks for introducing me to Eddi Reader some years ago; I'm a big fan!

[@mikehoyle3852]

great song about memory and loss

[@dundas7878]

I cant beleive some of the comments you people make if you dont like it then just dont watch instead of making rude horrible comments. She is a great singer.

[@lilianfrench9530]

She Weaves heart & glorious tones into the journey of Song!👌🏽

[@kennymaclean4430]

If this song doesn't move your emotions - bad news - you are dead ! Eddi puts so much into every song she sings - beautiful voice. Listen to her sing " Ay waulkin' o with Karen Matheson for an absolute vocal treat. Wonderful artiste.

[@imshooshy]

This is a wonderfully romantic song sung by a real talent. Love it!

[@suukon]

なんら予備知識なく購入したアルバムで頭のこの曲にどハマりしました。

[@pilgrimpoet]

It is so wonderful to see and hear one of my favorite singers singing one of my favorite songs here. Significant and wonderful ... to me. Thank you.

[@jwd2003]

@Truthiness231 I've been watching TED talks for a long time now and I can tell you this... Not all TED talks are created equal. This includes all those talks from Nobel Prize winners, Engineers, and Scientists. I've seen plenty of performances on TED that were quite amazing and inspiring. Just because this one didn't make the "cut" for you doesn't mean the performances are any less important to TED than any of the other talks.

[@panchokrono2435]

me impresiona la sinceridad de la interpretación, tremenda Eddi

[@leszektemplewicz3362]

De acuerdo. Me tambien.

[@feefers3]

This is soooooooooooooooo beautiful!!!!

[@thesecretplacerevelations]

Her expressions speak more than her words!!! 🥳 There was a time I used to be moved by her this performance. Now when I look at it, it all seems weird in a way and a little bit funny. But I still relate with the lyrics. ❤️💚💛💙💜 I see what's weird this time. Earlier years back I used to listen to it and enjoyed it with an unbiased and sort of happy mind. Now I'm looking at it through an experienced and sorta neutral mind.

[@skyswordsman]

@jackalrama As a sociologist, I try and interact with tons of different people, and one of the more memorable ones is with a large fellow whose knowledge of Corn (the crop), is quite astounding for a 21 yr old college student. He could tell you all the workings of corn farming, its genetic traits, etc etc; and I loved talking to him about it, even though I have no experience in it.

[@lillired857]

Huh?

[@karlcarpenter5528]

I somehow missed this song, amazing, it is a shame she and Nevin cannot you work with each other :-(

[@orchplayers]

Beautiful performance - and yes - this DOES belong in the TED talk arena. (Can't believe some of the comments...)

[@JaviFairground]

Beautiful :)

[@aavauxhall]

Scotland's greatest troubadour. Sing Eddi….

[@IdoloR]

@chvick I didn't have any criticisms or objections.

[@cybertooth49]

TED needs to begin having music that's as innovative and interesting as it's talks.

[@orchplayers]

They do, which is why we have Eddie Reader and Thomas Dolby...

[@Malphar]

@BaileysBeads if you dont know what TED stands for

[@chvick]

@IdoloR TED stands for : Technology Entertainment Design... so yes TED sings lol... singing falls into entertainment if you didn't know as it is music

[@clearmenser]

technology *ENTERTAINMENT* & design

[@mung1234]

@valkerian What Does it Stand For?

[@IdoloR]

TED sings?

[@organdva]

This is pure pop shit ¨!¨

[@Truthiness231]

@lockstick ??? I'm confused: are you saying the phrase "fuck off" is not said by those who refuse dogmatic law? I'm afraid I fail to see any logical corollary... perhaps you're confusing the term "freethought" from "polite"? That I'm not ^.^

[@valkerian]

@Truthiness231 I tried the same thing but he still wouldn't let me play the spoons....

[@valkerian]

Guys, figure out what TED stands for and you'll understand why there are performances like this.

[@etniko]

After seeing her biceps I lifted some weight.

[@drorjs]

N.M.C.O.T

[@Maxstate]

I love all the nerd rage about this not being 'true to TED' or some other semantics bullshit. Ninety percent of TED videos are feelgood bullshit of technology that's always '10 years away', so just take it as it comes and stop sperging out over a song thrown into the bunch. Jesus christ.

[@Truthiness231]

@jwd2003 Been a fan of TED myself since 2007.... this is only like the 3rd or 4th time they've brought in someone who clearly had to sleep with Stephen just to get on TED's stage. Notice what's wrong with this list and you'll see why this DOESN'T belong at TED: Bill Gates, Neil Turok, James Watson, some random singer that just finished touring the local pubs, Jeff Hawkins...

[@dryan2259]

Can't find entertainment that entertain's all.

[@iAMsoBEAST1]

Really, I enjoy the scientific and mathematics TEDs more than these

[@Trazynn]

I have no problems with music in TED, I even like this song. But this isn't appropriate for a TED performance.

[@Trazynn]

@valkerian If that was the case, then why don't they invite engineers who give a 30 minute boring speech on the inner workings of a waste disposal plant for 'Technology'? No, Entertainment in TED needs to be more than just a pop song.

[@CognosSquare]

Thankfully Dolby covered his bald bulbous head with a cap making a more subdued lighting of the stage area possible.

[@Truthiness231]

The TED slogan (isn't): "TED - ideas worth spreading... and songs that we thought were kinda neat and we had nothing else while Watson and Crick clear off stage and Hawkins clears his throat for his next speech." It's just wrong...

[@Truthiness231]

@chvick ROFL, the "Entertainment" in "TED" is for "The science and progression of Entertainment", not "General Entertainment". By your definition (and varying perspective), anything from MTV to BET to Fox News (the holy trinity of anti-TED world XP) could be considered "Entertainment" and thus acceptable... TED is the last bastion of free thought, skepticism, secularism, and any other domain of a true scientist. Please, take shit like this and give it to one of the 1000 fluff cable networks...

[@organdva]

@dreapster it got that irritating-all-fitting-simple-corded guitar + you-can't-escape-it-in-any-pop-music-piano. Half functional Atari computers with irregular power supply putted on random and then smashed with a hammer can produce better music.

[@imshooshy]

I thank TEDtalks for introducing me to Eddi Reader some years ago; I'm a big fan!