Biography & Autobiography, Composers & Musicians
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Music Saved My Life
How I Survived My Parents, A Difficult Marriage, Crazy Religion, and Being Gay by Grant H. Reynolds
Coming from a painful childhood steeped in the teachings of Christian Science, Grant Reynolds struggled throughout his life with anxiety and self-esteem issues. In his memoir, Music Saved My Life, he recounts how his music helped him overcome his...
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Music for the Soul
Experiencing Classical Music through Informed Listening by Lorraine Kneier
"Informed listening demands knowledge, context, and meditative practice. Even in ideal circumstances, imparting the musical knowledge required for engaged listening is a challenge not easily met. It is refreshing to encounter a well-reasoned and...
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Music for Other Reasons
Conversations with Music Therapists by Bob Cowin
Music therapists use music to achieve non-musical goals. Their clients range from children with autism or developmental disabilities, through adults recovering from brain injuries or addiction, to seniors with Parkinson’s disease, depression, or...
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Domenic Troiano
His Life and Music by Mark Doble and Frank Troiano
Rock guitarist, composer, producer, and musical mentor: Domenic Troiano was one of the greatest Canadian musicians of his generation. Starting out in the 1960s Toronto club scene with Robbie Lane & the Disciples and Rompin’ Ronnie Hawkins,...
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Wheatfield Empire
The Listener's Guide to The Guess Who by Robert Lawson
Winnipeg’s The Guess Who are Canada’s original international rock n’ roll superstars. But despite the band’s enduring popularity, no one has assembled a comprehensive history of their recording career… until now. In exquisite detail that serious...
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Musically Yours
A Duet’s Memoir of Life, Love, and Music by Monique Tremblay and Rick Tremblay
It began with a singer in need of accompaniment and a guitar player who obliged. When a high school teacher introduced Rick Tremblay to play guitar for Monique Dinel at a talent show, they could not have imagined then that this would develop into...
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Memories of Chuck
by James (Jimmy) Marsala
This book is the author's desire to share with Chuck's fans, some of the experiences he had on the road that his fans may want to hear about. Unless you were there, you missed some very interesting shows. This book also tries to show the loyalty...
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OHMS
by Michael Scholfield
Michael Scholfield tells his life journey as a junior salesman, bandsman, Bandmaster, teacher, church organist, choirmaster and Adjudicator, travelling across the globe, from the seaside town of Brighton, to the Tower of London, Malta, Tripoli,...
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There Are No Strangers
by Jean Price Claridge
Do you have questions about Death and Dying? Why Are We Here? What is Time? Are there Angels? If so, I feel this book may help you find some of those answers. After an amazing healing when I was young, I began my quest to answer these and all of...
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Turn the Other Cheek
by Dorothy Annette Grant
Years after having made a name for herself as a consumer reporter for CBC Television in Halifax, Dorothy Grant, now working for the Nova Scotia Medical Society, received an unexpected call. It was from an elderly woman named Charlotte, who hoped...
