Faith Nolan
Faith Nolan (born 1957 in Halifax, Nova Scotia) is a Canadian social activist folk and jazz singer-songwriter and guitarist of mixed African, Mi'kmaq and Irish heritage. As stated on her website, "her music is her political work, a politics firmly rooted in her being working class, a woman, African Canadian and queer." Nolan is openly lesbian.[1]
Part of her activist work has been documenting the social, political and cultural history of Africville, a historic African Canadian settlement in Maritime Canada. She currently resides in Toronto, Canada.
Discography
- Africville (1986)
- Sistership (1987)
- Freedom to Love (1989)
- Hard to Imagine (1996)
- Faith Nolan: A Compilation 1986-1996 (1996)
- Overloaded, Fed Up and On the Line (2002)
- Let it Shine (2002)
- Faith Nolan Live (2003)
- Day Done Broke (2006)
- One World (2008)
- Mannish Gal (2008)
."CUPE Freedom Singers. And Faith Nolan" (2009) . J"ailhouse Blues " (2014)
References
- ↑ Holmlund, Chris; Fuchs, Cynthia (1997), Between the Sheets, in the Streets: Queer, Lesbian, and Gay Documentary, U of Minnesota Press, p. 252, ISBN 0-8166-2774-6
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