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| Hamilton, Ontario, Canada - circa 1800s |
Very excited to share two recent events that capture the 'zeitgeist' of my latest #canlit novel, TRILLIUM ---
First,
TRILLIUM has recently been listed on
tripfiction.com - a thoroughly engaging website that links
books-to-place.
TRILLIUM scores
5 stars for
LOCATION and
CONTENT. It is a wonderful acknowledgement that my words are
deeply rooted to the landscape on the southern shore of
Lake Ontario. The tripfiction website is an
ideal site to send to anyone coming to the
wine-making peninsula of
Niagara.
Shoot visitors
this link to
TRILLIUM as a preparatory read!
Filled with distinct characters over a span of 250 years starting in the mid 1750s,
TRILLIUM explores the rural roots of three principal & distinct families - the Italian Di Angelos, the Irish O'Sullivans and the Anglo-Canadian WASPs, the Hartfords. As their lives intertwine over the decades of centuries, their children inter-marry. - But there are secrets: deep, dark family
secrets ...
Second, one of my ambitions vis a vis this book project over the past year was to create a
'playlist' that captures the
zeitgeist of the novel. After a few false starts, I think I've finally got it! With a mixed medley of nearly 300 tunes, (or 16.5 hours of listening pleasure), I am very happy to share this
zeitgeist mix on
SPOTIFY.
I have just recently learned that
SPOTIFY also has a computer and TV streaming app option. The TV streaming option is fabulous way to listen if you've got a good sound system hooked up. A very popular music site, listening-in is free on Spotify, with ads. I'd say it is well worth the small membership fee for uninterrupted listening pleasure! - If you love music, it will be hard to leave!
For those who have read
TRILLIUM, tune into the
TRILLIUM PLAYLIST on
SPOTIFY.
For those who haven't read it yet,
TUNE IN and see if you might like to ... (One character, Kieran O'Sullivan, has an extensive record collection from the
1930s, 1940s, 50s, 60s and 70s ... Fun!)
Let me know what you think! Is there a good representation of music that wafted over southern Ontario from the mid 1750s to 2001?! When compiling it, I believed that contrary to current trends and influences, music that arrived south of the lake in the past two centuries would have come in by ships first, and then by radio stations from the States, principally Buffalo and Detroit. Thus, many of the East Coast sea shanties and popular American tunes in the playlist. -- Am I missing anything that you think is
absolutely essential to reflect the decades from 1750 to 2001? -- Let me know!
Putting this list together has been a real labour of love: I had to listen to hundreds of fantastic, memorable -
and dance-inducing - musical tracks. Hurled back in time, I stumbled on old favourites & all-time classics . Oh my -
'House of the Rising Sun' -
CLASSIC!!! - Tune in to the TRILLIUM playlist!
If a regular on Shopify, be sure to follow the playlist.
I'll be adding more tunes as time allows.
My one regret is that I didn't set up the playlist chronologically. But after listening for awhile, I rather like how Spotify's algorithms 'shuffles'. Tunes lead naturally into each other.
(Does it really matter that they may be decades apart?)
The main
IDEA is to capture the
zeitgeist of several evolving eras in southern Ontario ... I think it does do just that.
--- ENJOY!
Read more -
TRILLIUM - by MLHolton
LISTEN IN to the
TRILLIUM playlist on
SPOTIFY!
