Travels With My Suitcase - Teresa Beck-Swindale AUSTRALIAN AUTHOR Hardcover

Hardcover 

Full colour, 226 pages, including CD and download card of 9 tracks of music

A musician on the road travels with an ear to the ground.

This story of a search for sound involves encounters with random buskers, sublime jazz festivals, quirky folk musicians and singers of many nationalities.

Tales of suitcases, sculptures and instrumental characters collide in a compendium of discoveries across the island state of Tasmania, to southern Europe and back.

A travelogue memoir with lyrics and jottings from a community artist and a sub plot – There is no Planet B

A musician on the road travels with an ear to the ground. Tales of suitcases, sculptures and instrumental characters collide in a compendium of discoveries across the island state of Tasmania, to southern Europe and back. A travelogue memoir with lyrics and jottings from a community artist and a sub plot – There is no Planet B

Travelling can become an obsession, as can music. Put the two together and it’s a recipe for adventure with a capital A. Before COVID hit, Teresa took off to Europe in search of fabulous music and instrumental characters on the world stage … and found them.

Here are anecdotes from the road along with observations from the trundler of a suitcase with a message: There is no Planet B.