Writing

Ferron is one of Canada’s most brilliant and critically acclaimed singer/songwriters. In the 1980s the Boston Globe famously wrote that Bob Dylan would be known as the Ferron of the 1960s. Yet little is known about her. Ferron: A Songwriter’s Testimony is a unique biography. Sylvia tells Ferron’s story as it was told to her through more than 80 hours of interviews with Ferron and dozens of hours of interviews with key people from Ferron’s professional life.

The book tells a seldom-heard account of the 1970s-90s lesbian music movement, and the role music played in changing the lives of women in that era and in so doing changing the face of western society. The book is personal and honest and genuinely enlightening.