Fiona McQuarrie has been writing about music for more than 30 years. She was formerly the music critic at the Vancouver Sun and Province newspapers, along with freelancing for a number of publications. She is a contributing writer for Shindig! magazine, and her first book "Song Book: 21 Songs From 10 Years (1964-74)" is available from New Haven Publishing.
Beautiful but uncategorizable music flowed through Lhasa de Sela (1972-2010), whose itinerant, off-the-grid childhood with spiritually-inclined parents allowed...