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Hannah Leatherbury, E-services manger, Southern Arts Federation talks to singer and boogie-woogie pianist, Eden Brent. A native of Greenville, Mississippi, Eden earned a music degree from the University of North Texas, but credits most of her learning to a sixteen-year apprenticeship with the late Abbie Boogaloo Ames. After Ames passed in 2002, Eden embarked on a tour of South Africa, where several months later, her album Something Cool, was #2 on the South African Rock Digest charts. Eden was the 2006 winner of the International Blues Challenge and will begin a year-long tour in November of this year to promote her latest album Mississippi Number One. She is featured on the Southern Arts Federations adjudicated online artist registry, SouthernArtistry.org, (www.southernartistry.orgEden_Brent). This interview features Eden talking about her work, her travels and her thoughts about her apprenticeship, and is punctuated with selections from Edens musical career.