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Last Updated: 11/16/2009

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Country: UK
Signup Date: 2/8/2007
Sunday, August 09, 2009 
Hello everyone,

I hope you're all having a good summer, despite the weather. It seems to have rained since June!

However, I'm enjoying myself, especially as I've had all the family at home - a mother's dream - and having just done both the Eisteddfod and Brampton Live, which was the biggest Folk Festival the band and I have appeared at so far.

I'd love to do more of that kind of work. It's really stimulating and I just float on the confidence of knowing how good the music is while we're playing. It's so great to have Brad, Russ, Nick, Troy and Pete with me as well, the 'big' band I use on my touring dates, although sometimes we have to appear as a foursome and not the usual six.

I love doing these Festivals in the summer. Everyone is so lovely and I get to meet other artistes - it's something that I don't get to do usually as I'm the only artist there. I also get to hear OTHER artists and what they're up to. It's great.
I'd love to do some more next summer - maybe Cambridge and Glastonbury would be good!

Coming up soon there's the concert at Linlithgow, a small festival near Edinburgh, in September and then everything hots up for the launch of my autobiography. However, before that, I'm appearing in Dunfermline (not singing) for the Fife Constabulary Unsung Heroes evening at the Glen Pavilion as their special guest. Then I'm hoping to be all over the place late October and the first two weeks of November in particular signing books and doing interviews, and I'll be starting to do magazine interviews very soon. They have a long 'lead in' period, so they need to  be done well in advance.

I'm also doing two songs in a concert at the Queens Hall in Edinburgh on 30th October with Archie Fisher, my old friend and a great influence on my early work. We're both patrons of the Traditional Music and Song Association of Scotland and so we're getting together to play a brief little set for them to raise funds. Do come if you can, to make the event successful for Scottish culture.

Also for the TMSA, I'm appearing in Dumfries on the 28th November to lead the singing of 'Auld Lang Syne'... the OLD tune is being used. I've also asked if I can sing a song and Troy is coming with me for that.

Then Troy and I will be contributing to a Royal Carol Concert at Glasgow Cathedral on 10th December in the presence of HRH Princess Alexandra. That should be great as my old friend Lady Edmonstone is organising it.

So look out for me as I'll be all over the place between now and Christmas. Please come to a book signing if there is one is near you - just to make me feel less lonely! There'll be more details on next year's tour in a short while. Individual dates will be up on the website very soon (love the new look to the site by the way, it's wonderful!)

Lastly, Troy and I are talking about the new album we are hoping to make in 2010. The project we were considering, which involved cover versions, didn't materialise in the end. I'm not too unhappy about that. I'm calling the next album 'Full Circle 3', which gives you the gist of what it will be. More on that as it evolves but nothing is certain yet. I'm just letting you in on my thoughts about the future.

There are loads of strange compilations around at the moment which have nothing to do with me, so maybe I should leave the pop songs well alone for now and just get on with what I want to do. However, Troy and I are looking at putting a couple of new pieces in the 2010 tour set list from that aborted covers CD, but we've not decided which ones yet.

The completion of the BBC Scotland Christmas radio show I did, turning it into a full CD, won't happen this year as I'm very busy with the book and Troy is very busy with the Bad Shepherds, who are taking the festival circuit by storm and will be on tour in the Autumn.

Talking of Troy, I hope you've had a chance to hear his new 'The Madness of Crowds' CD. It's really beautiful - I didn't know I could sing that high, until he made me!

Watch out for Pete Zorn with Steeleye Span as well. He's maybe doing some UK dates with them later in the year and has already fulfilled a tour's worth in 2009.

Hope you all have a great late summer and Autumn. See you somewhere soon!

Much love,

BARBARA x
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dancer 59
lynda johns

 
hiya Barbara, my you're a busy woman!!!!!
are you ever coming to Ayrshire?
i can't wait for your autobiography coming out ( are you doing any signings?)
take care Barbara, and have a break now and again !!!!
Lynda

 
Posted by dancer 59 on Sunday, August 09, 2009 - 7:01 PM
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josephine
josephine griffiths

 
Glad you're enjoying your wet summer and having the family around you Barbara....We will all look forward to your book coming out......and your new album.... Love  jo x
 
Posted by josephine on Sunday, August 09, 2009 - 8:09 PM
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Barkingmad

 
Any truth in the rumour that you're taking part in the Hyde Park "Thank You For The Music" extraveganza in Hyde Park featuring the songs of benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulveaus?
 
Posted by Barkingmad on Sunday, August 09, 2009 - 8:58 PM
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Barbara Dickson

 
I'd love to have, but I couldn't make it as I have a show in Scotland that weekend. B x

 
Posted by Barbara Dickson on Wednesday, August 12, 2009 - 9:58 PM
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Jenny
Jenny Dalton

 
Wow! You have got a busy autumn coming up. Take care Jenny 
 
Posted by Jenny on Monday, August 10, 2009 - 7:24 PM
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Bill
Bill Pearson

 
How Do from Lancashire Barbara,Mary & I were involved in the Edinburgh folk scene for a few years I was resident Rhymer in the Triangle. there were some great programs on TV in those days, The Singer & The Song I think the series was called with just about everyone including yourself on it, then Capital Folk that was what got us involved with the Triangle, we had seen Rankin File on the program so we went to the club and saw the band live, I think Jim Herd and his wife were running it at the time.
Later I was asked to help restart the club by Bob Thomas & Gordon Jones (Silly Wizard) I started doing floor spots reciting and singing. I was introduced to Willie Russell during the festival when he was doing two plays in a church hall in Broughton street.
I really enjoy hearing you sing some of the Scots ballads there's a ring in the voice that many of the female Scots singers like Cilla Tresize, Jean Redpath and others have that you can't miss. I wish they had kept the sound recordings of those TV programs.
All the best Bill (Will Scribble)

 
Posted by Bill on Sunday, August 23, 2009 - 4:18 PM
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