Freida Lives Book Launch
Summary
There’s a sense of truth that pervades through the lyrics that’s incredibly powerful, and I tried to convey that feeling, that realness, in Freida Lives.” Appropriately enough, Luisa will be launching her book at Waterfront Blues, a music festival happening at Woodbine Park in Toronto’s Beaches neighbourhood.And as the youngest daughter of Italian immigrants, she heard way more accordions in tarantellas growing up than guitars or harmonicas by musicians such as Robert Johnson, Son House and Sonny Boy Williamson II.But that’s proof of the enduring strength of the blues.Freida Lives is the fictional account of a young girl born under mysterious circumstances who has to deal with racism, cruelty, the loss of childhood and having her roots pulled up, all during the blues’ formative period of the early 20th century.“It’s like these songs speak to me directly,” Luisa explains.There’s a sense of truth that pervades through the lyrics that’s incredibly powerful, and I tried to convey that feeling, that realness, in Freida Lives.”Appropriately enough, Luisa will be launching her book at Waterfront Blues, a music festival happening at Woodbine Park in Toronto’s Beaches neighbourhood.For more information on Waterfront Blues, including directions there as well as a list of the acts that will be performing during the weekend, go to WaterfrontBlues.ca.And every person in the Greater Toronto Area who buys a copy of Freida Lives will be given the unique opportunity to have Luisa come out to a book club meeting this summer.