Faith Nolan

Faith Nolan
Background information
Born 1957 (age 59–60)
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Genres
Occupation(s) Singer-songwriter, guitarist
Instruments Guitar
Website www.faithnolan.org

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, Ontario, 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)
  • Jailhouse Blues (2014)

References

  1. ↑ 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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