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1 Sylvia Tyson
In the mid-1960s an assortment of young Canadians and Americans with acoustic guitars were doing for traditional
folk music what a bunch of skinny Brits with electric guitars were doing for traditional black American
blues: they were reviving it. Sylvia Tyson's pure alto voice, harmonizing with Ian Tyson's powerful tenor, was a defining and influential sound
of that movement. Together, as Ian and Sylvia, they created enduring classics like Four Strong Winds, Someday Soon and You Were on my Mind.
Sylvia Tyson still performs and records with the group Quartette.
Sylvia's new book is the novel Joyner's Dream. It concerns one family with a love of music and a knack for thieving. It begins in England in
1780, continues in Halifax at the time of the Great Explosion, and concludes in present-day Toronto. All the generations of the family are connected by
music, a secret journal and one long-lived violin. A CD of 11 new songs by Sylvia Tyson, inspired by Joyner's Dream, is also available.
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