Singer-Songwriter Yvette Landry to Present and Perform at the Louisiana State Book Fair

The 10th annual Louisiana Book Festival will host a number of music-related programs as part of Lt. Gov. Jay Dardenne’s yearlong salute to Louisiana music.

Singer-songwriter Mary Gauthier will lead a full-day pre-festival songwriting WordShop Nov. 1, at the State Library and will be interviewed by author Wally Lamb at the festival on Nov. 2. Lamb included Gauthier’s “I Drink” on his playlist for his novel “The Hour I First Believed.” His novels “She’s Come Undone” and “I Know This Much is True” were selected for Oprah’s Book Club.

Other author presentations on music-related books include “Creole Trombone: Kid Ory and the Early Years of Jazz” by John McCusker, “Traditional Music of Coastal Louisiana: The 1934 Lomax Recordings” by Joshua Caffery and “Unconquered: The Saga of Cousins Jerry Lee Lewis, Jimmy Swaggart and Mickey Gilley” by J.D. Davis. There will be a panel on Louisiana music with Tom Aswell, author of “Louisiana Rocks!” and Shane Bernard, author of “Swamp Pop: Cajun and Creole Rhythm and Blues.” Singer-songwriter Zachary Richard will give a presentation on his book, “Histoire des Acadiennes et des Acadiens de la Louisiane.”

Live music performances will take place throughout the day on Spanish Town Road, including singer-songwriter Yvette Landry, who will also discuss her children’s book “The Ghost Tree” at the festival. The debut performance of a show based on “The Shoe Burnin’: Stories of Southern Soul” will also take place in the Capitol Park Museum auditorium.

The Louisiana Book Festival takes place 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Nov. 2, in Capitol Park in downtown Baton Rouge. For more information, visitwww.LouisianaBookFestival.org.

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