Shropshire Star

Barbara Dickinson bringing show to Shrewsbury

A a multi-million selling recording artist with an impressive Olivier Award-winning acting career will be coming to Shrewsbury early next year.

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Barbara Dickson. Photo by Brian Aris

Barbara Dickson is one of the UK’s best-loved performers and has just announced an extensive UK tour for 2019.

Starting on February 1, she will be performing with her band, and covering classic material from her music across both pop and folk and will be at Theatre Severn on February 26.

Emerging from the Scottish Folk Revival of the 1960s, Barbara Dickson became the biggest selling Scottish female album artist of all time, earning six platinum, 11 gold and seven silver albums.

Known to a wider audience in the 1970s and 1980s with hits including Answer Me, Another Suitcase in Another Hall, The Caravan Song and I Know Him So Well, she enjoyed 10 years of chart success as a pop star. She was awarded an OBE from the Queen in 2002 for services to music and drama.

As an actress, she has appeared in the award winning theatre productions, John, Paul, George, Ringo and Bert, Blood Brothers and Spend, Spend, Spend. She was the original Mrs Johnstone and Willy Russell’s muse.