Barbara Dickson
Liverpool Philharmonic
Tour: To Each and Everyone
Barbara Dickson first came to prominence after debuting in John Paul George Ringo and Bert at the Liverpool Playhouse in 1974. Before that she was a well known songster on the folk circuit, but singing the music in the Willy Russell play sent her into the stratosphere, resulting in her first hit record Answer Me in 1976.
She went on to score many other hits such as I Know Him So Well from Chess, Another Suitcase in Another Hall from Evita, as well as a wonderful performance in Willy Russell’s Blood Brothers as Mrs Johnstone.
So, Barbara has many links to Liverpool and Liverpool is always glad when she returns. None so much as last night when she brought her tour To Each & Everyone to the Liverpool Philharmonic, celebrating the life and songs of her good friend Gerry Rafferty, the Scottish singer/songwriter who died in 2011 aged 63.
Barbara, 66, included Rafferty songs such as a moody Baker Street, rearranged by her lead guitarist Troy Donockley, and the less well known to Dickson fans, the more folksy Waters of Forgetfulness, Steamboat Row and As Wise as a Serpent.
Of course no concert for intrepid fans would be complete without her hits, and she gave us the atmospheric Caravans, an up-tempo version of Answer Me, as well as Easy Terms/Tell me Its Not True from Blood Brothers, her dulcet tones, still clear and true, as of old, pulling at our heartstrings.
But it seems that she is returning more and more to her roots as a folk singer. Barbara has been lauded in the folk world for her interpretations of traditional music, particularly Scottish folk, from whence she began. An exquisite rendering of the Eriskay Love Song echoed round the hall with the haunting euillean pipes played by Donockley.
Liverpool Philharmonic
Tour: To Each and Everyone
Barbara Dickson first came to prominence after debuting in John Paul George Ringo and Bert at the Liverpool Playhouse in 1974. Before that she was a well known songster on the folk circuit, but singing the music in the Willy Russell play sent her into the stratosphere, resulting in her first hit record Answer Me in 1976.
She went on to score many other hits such as I Know Him So Well from Chess, Another Suitcase in Another Hall from Evita, as well as a wonderful performance in Willy Russell’s Blood Brothers as Mrs Johnstone.
So, Barbara has many links to Liverpool and Liverpool is always glad when she returns. None so much as last night when she brought her tour To Each & Everyone to the Liverpool Philharmonic, celebrating the life and songs of her good friend Gerry Rafferty, the Scottish singer/songwriter who died in 2011 aged 63.
Barbara, 66, included Rafferty songs such as a moody Baker Street, rearranged by her lead guitarist Troy Donockley, and the less well known to Dickson fans, the more folksy Waters of Forgetfulness, Steamboat Row and As Wise as a Serpent.
Of course no concert for intrepid fans would be complete without her hits, and she gave us the atmospheric Caravans, an up-tempo version of Answer Me, as well as Easy Terms/Tell me Its Not True from Blood Brothers, her dulcet tones, still clear and true, as of old, pulling at our heartstrings.
But it seems that she is returning more and more to her roots as a folk singer. Barbara has been lauded in the folk world for her interpretations of traditional music, particularly Scottish folk, from whence she began. An exquisite rendering of the Eriskay Love Song echoed round the hall with the haunting euillean pipes played by Donockley.
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