Margaret Sweatman
+ Ian Weir
Mr. Jones + Will Starling
Sept. 23, 2014
Margaret Sweatman + Ian Weir
+ Glen Buhr + Mark Medley
An on-stage interview linking two books, history, mystery, with period music and song.
Update: Three videos of M. Sweatman's musical perfomance captured at this event now available at the bottom of this page.
Evoking the classic works of le Carré and Greene, award-winning Sweatman's novel Mr. Jones is a shattering exploration of a past where world governments threaten annihilation while training housewives in the proper techniques for sweeping up radioactive dust.
Margaret Sweatman is a novelist, playwright, and Genie-winning lyricist.
Margaret Sweatman
Mr. Jones
Book Cover
Margaret Sweatman portrait.
Image credit - Jay Gaune.
Will Starling is a rollicking, bawdy, and haunting novel about love and redemption, death and resurrection in Regency London.
Ian Weir
Will Starling
Book cover.
Ian Weir portrait.
Ian Weir is an award-winning playwright, screenwriter, and novelist. He was the creator and executive producer of CBC's hit adventure/drama series Arctic Air, and is the winner of two Gemini Awards, four Leos, a Writers Guild of Canada Screenwriting Award, and a Jessie.
Glenn Buhr is a composer, pianist/guitarist, music curator and producer, songwriter and band leader and is Professor of Music Composition and Improvisation in the Contemporary Music Program at Wilfrid Laurier University.
Mark Medley is presently the National Post's Books Editor.
New videos shot by Jacky Sawatzky capture Margaret Sweatman's musical performance with Glen Buhr and Victor Bateman.
"Ordinary Smoke."
Music, Glenn Buhr; lyrics, Margaret Sweatman. Glenn Buhr, guitar; Victor Bateman, bass; M. Sweatman, vocals & harmonica.
"Dr. Lonely."
Music, Glenn Buhr; lyrics, Margaret Sweatman. Glenn Buhr, Guitar, Victor Bateman, bass; M. Sweatman, vocals & harmonica.
"I'm in Love with Sleep."
Music by Glenn Buhr; lyrics by Margaret Sweatman. Glenn Buhr, guitar; Victor Bateman, bass; M. Sweatman, vocals.
