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If life had turned out differently, and Barbara Dickson hadn’t become one of Scotland’s most successful performers, she might have considered teaching.
Growing up in Dunfermline, Dickson had a love of history and thought she could one day become a history teacher. Instead, her love of the past fed into her early breakthrough as a folk musician, before her chameleon-like career took her into musical theatre, pop, and serious acting roles.
Today, she remains one of the country’s most prolific artists, but last year, lockdown also gave her the chance to finally try her hand at teaching – in the subject of music rather than history – and it turns out she rather enjoyed it.
“I have an inquiring, curious mind, and I did some teaching for Goldster, which was formed by a Scot and is a bit like the University of the Third Age, a place for older people to involve themselves in classes, doing anything from calligraphy to line dancing,” she explained
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