Joyner's Dream: One on One with Sylvia Tyson

Hosted by Arthur McGregor

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Christ Church Cathedral

414 Sparks St. • Ottawa

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Joyner's Dream: One on One with Sylvia Tyson

We always knew Sylvia Tyson was a wonderful storyteller in song. Turns out that's true for the page, too. Joyner's Dream is a square-dance of family history. The partners change, but music courses through it all like blood. I was swept away by Sylviaâ€™s sweeping saga. This is one good read!

Shelagh Rogers, O.C.

Join us for an unforgettable evening of storytelling and song. For eighteen years, Sylvia Tyson was one half of the internationally renowned folk duo Ian and Sylvia. A member of the Order of Canada and the Canadian Music Hall of Fame, she has recorded ten Solo albums since the duo split in 1975, and since 2000 has been recording and performing with the group Quartette.

Her acclaimed novel, Joyner’s Dream, is the sweeping story of a family and its dubious legacy: an abiding love of music coupled with a persistent knack for thieving. Beginning in England in the 1780s, continuing in Halifax at the time of the Great Explosion, and ending in Toronto in the present, eight larcenous generations from all walks of life—craftsmen and highwaymen, aristocrats and servants, lawyers and B-movie actors—are connected by music, a secret family journal and one long-lived violin.

The Authors

Sylvia Tyson

For eighteen years, Sylvia Tyson was one half of the internationally renowned folk duo Ian and Sylvia, who shared a manager with such luminaries as Bob Dylan, Peter, Paul and Mary, The Band and Janis Joplin. Their hits included “Four Strong Winds,” written by Ian, and (for the group We Five) “You Were on My Mind,” written by Sylvia. Sylvia has recorded ten solo albums since the duo split in 1975, and since 2000 has been recording and performing with the group Quartette. She has also had a distinguished radio and television career, both in music and in documentaries. Sylvia Tyson is a member of the Order of Canada and the Canadian Music Hall of Fame. She lives in Toronto. Joyner's Dream is her first book.