I was reading on another thread, from last year, how Barbara Dickson, amongst others, used to be a regular guest at folk clubs many years ago. Going back a few years now, there was a thread about Barbara on the BBC folk board, which turned into one of the most argumentative, aggressive and extraordinary threads I had ever seen, with a few people doing all in their power to seemingly get it closed down, as it seemed they had a deep problem with Barbara even being mentioned in the same sentence as the word folk.

If you start out a folk singer, then change to another genre of music, although to me all music is music, do you then lose your right to be called a folk singer forever?


Barbara Dickson