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Exotic venues, sold-out concerts, and the companionship of the world’s most powerful people have given Liona Boyd a lifestyle that, like her music, is one in a million.
Exotic venues, sold-out concerts, and the companionship of the world’s most powerful people have given Liona Boyd a lifestyle that, like her music, is one in a million. The internationally acclaimed classical guitarist has crossed numerous boundaries, both musically and romantically.
In this colourful memoir covering her life up to 1998, she serves up a rich and fascinating mix: childhood with her progressive parents in England, Canada, and Mexico, exacting music studies in Toronto, down-and-out years in London and Paris, her eight-year romance with Canadian prime minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau, drug experimentation in a Mexican artists’ colony, and whirlwind trips around the globe to eminent concert stages.
It all makes for a rousing, feisty, passionate tale, as compelling and entrancing as the music of her Ramírez guitar.
Exotic venues, sold-out concerts, and the companionship of the world’s most powerful people have given Liona Boyd a lifestyle that, like her music, is one in a million. The internationally acclaimed classical guitarist has crossed numerous boundaries, both musically and romantically.
In this colourful memoir covering her life up to 1998, she serves up a rich and fascinating mix: childhood with her progressive parents in England, Canada, and Mexico, exacting music studies in Toronto, down-and-out years in London and Paris, her eight-year romance with Canadian prime minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau, drug experimentation in a Mexican artists’ colony, and whirlwind trips around the globe to eminent concert stages.
It all makes for a rousing, feisty, passionate tale, as compelling and entrancing as the music of her Ramírez guitar.
Price: $24.99
Pages: 344
Publisher: Dundurn Press
Imprint: Dundurn Press
Publication Date:
12 September 2017
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9781459739956
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Composers & Musicians, Autobiography: arts & entertainment, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs, MUSIC / Musical Instruments / Guitar, Memoirs, Guitar
In this sensitive account of her early days and the vigorous artistic years, Liona Boyd proves that dreams can become reality. In her book she gives us the candid details of her trip through the maze.
Liona Boyd's reputation in the music world as an extraordinary guitarist is well known. You only have to read this book to realize that she can write just as well.
Liona’s rarified gift is her extraordinary ability to convey the intangible essence of love through the soulful and pure sound of the classical guitar; her breadth of human emotion is unmatched.
Her music, talent, and courage have woven a magic carpet that has floated through some of the most interesting corridors of our century.
Congratulations to Liona Boyd for her spirited writing and beautiful music.
The golden girl of the guitar writes with unusual candour and taste, even about her long-term love affair with Canada’s prime minister Pierre Trudeau.
Liona Boyd's reputation in the music world as an extraordinary guitarist is well known. You only have to read this book to realize that she can write just as well.
Liona’s rarified gift is her extraordinary ability to convey the intangible essence of love through the soulful and pure sound of the classical guitar; her breadth of human emotion is unmatched.
Her music, talent, and courage have woven a magic carpet that has floated through some of the most interesting corridors of our century.
Congratulations to Liona Boyd for her spirited writing and beautiful music.
The golden girl of the guitar writes with unusual candour and taste, even about her long-term love affair with Canada’s prime minister Pierre Trudeau.
Liona Boyd, known around the world as “The First Lady of the Guitar,” has released twenty-eight albums, spanning a wide range of styles, many of which have gone gold and platinum. She has been awarded the Order of Canada, has been inducted into the Guitar Gallery of Greats, and won five Juno awards. She divides her time between Toronto and Palm Beach, Florida.
Preface
Prelude
l. The Prediction
2. Setting Sail
3. Grammar School Girl
4. A Guitar for Christmas
5. Mexican Adventure
6. The Commitment
7. Paris a la Boheme
8. Have Guitar, Will Travel
9. On Tour with Lightfoot
10. “Bond, James Bond”
11. Pierre
12. “Me and Julio”
13. “Why Do You Need Royalties?”
14. Fidel Castro
15. A Normal Existence
16. Conflicts of the Heart
17. Boyd — Not Floyd!
18. Adventures in Housekeeping
19. Pilots, Planes, and Pachyderms
20. On the Road Again
21. The Ultimate Canadian Experience
22. Birth Pangs in Costa Rica
23. The Golden State
24. Noblesse Oblige
Coda
Outro
Appendix: Liona Boyd Discography and Music Publications
Index
Prelude
l. The Prediction
2. Setting Sail
3. Grammar School Girl
4. A Guitar for Christmas
5. Mexican Adventure
6. The Commitment
7. Paris a la Boheme
8. Have Guitar, Will Travel
9. On Tour with Lightfoot
10. “Bond, James Bond”
11. Pierre
12. “Me and Julio”
13. “Why Do You Need Royalties?”
14. Fidel Castro
15. A Normal Existence
16. Conflicts of the Heart
17. Boyd — Not Floyd!
18. Adventures in Housekeeping
19. Pilots, Planes, and Pachyderms
20. On the Road Again
21. The Ultimate Canadian Experience
22. Birth Pangs in Costa Rica
23. The Golden State
24. Noblesse Oblige
Coda
Outro
Appendix: Liona Boyd Discography and Music Publications
Index