Why being Streisand is Evergreen for Alyson
Rannoch Moor in its picturesque emptiness is one of the landscapes featured in a new photography exhibition in Pitlochry.
Double award-winning photographer Lewis Golbourn has his first solo exhibition at the John Muir Trust’s Wild Space Visitor Centre on the main street.
‘Walk in the Wild’ is now on display and the exhibition reveals views of some of Scotland’s most rugged and remote landscapes in all seasons, including ‘Three Minutes’ – a snowclad Rannoch Moor at sunrise.
Lewis presents two prize-winning shots ‘Epic’ (Coigach-Assynt) and Evening Skye (Trotternish).
The exhibition runs until August 30 and includes ‘Sentinel’, Glencoe’s Buchaille Etive Mor rising out of a cloud inversion; and ‘Playground’, taken at Plodda Falls near Tomich in Strathglass.
Seasoned hill walker Lewis regularly camps out in the mountains waiting for the right moment.
He said: “Many people have lost touch with the wild places around them in the modern world.
“I feel blessed that I am able to bring a little of it to them, whether it’s looking at one of my photographs online, in print or on the walls of the Wild Space.” Singer and actress Alyson Orr has a date at Pitlochry Festival Theatre when she will step into the shoes of the legendary entertainer, Barbra Streisand.
The Pitlochry theatre will host Evergreen, A Tribute to Barbra Streisand on September 2. And it promises to be a night when her legions of fans will come out and relive the magic of songs like ‘Evergreen’, ‘Don’t Rain On My Parade’ ‘Woman In Love’ and ‘The Way We Were’ - the releases that helped Streisand become the highest selling female recording artist in history.
Glaswegian actress Alyson Orr has the job of emulating this key performer and has the background to pull it off admirably. She told the PA: “I’ve been a professional singer for 30 years. I’ve done some acting, musical theatre and TV work.
“Like everyone else from Glasgow it seems, I’ve been in River City and had a part in Take the High Road.
“But what I really enjoy is singing, and for some time I’ve been lead vocalist with the harmony group, The Swingcats.
“I’ve also had a ball touring with the Glenn Miller Orchestra.
“Now I’m doing the Barbra Streisland Evergreen show, and with the help of a four-piece band, I’m really going for it.
“I appeared in the tribute show, The Andrews Sisters in Glasgow for five years and spent a lot of time at the Pavilion Theatre.
“Now I’m really looking forward to doing these eight new shows with the Streisand material.
“This is actually the first time we’ve put it all together in one show, but I feel tingles every time I sing one of Barbra’s soulful songs.”
The role as this celebrated vocalist is a natural one for Alyson, who has happy memories of her mum playing the music: “I heard Evergreen from A Star Is Born back in 1976, when I must have been nine.
“My mum had it on an LP, she played it lots, but I was too young to go and see the film.
“Of course I saw it later and I kept on playing the music, the theme to the movie was Evergreen.”
The evening journey through Barbra Streisand’s vast songbook is on Sunday, September 2 at 8pm, Pitlochry Festival Theatre.
Tickets cost £16.50 from the box office on 01796 484626 or www. PitlochryFestivalTheatre.com
Plodda Falls in Strathglass, by Lewis Golbourn Alyson Orr