Archives Catalogue

MS-5-22
Fonds
1925-2021, predominant 1990-2020

Fonds consists of clippings and ephemera, photographs, sound recordings, video recordings, and musical scores and lyrics related to the Nova Scotia Mass Choir from 1992 to 2021.

O'Brien, Joy

Photograph of a billboard promoting a Nova Scotia Mass Choir concert

MS-5-22, Box 12, Folder 71
File
July 24, 1999

Part of Joy O'Brien fonds

File contains a photograph of a billboard promoting a Nova Scotia Mass Choir concert on July 24, 1999. The billboard is located just outside South Shore Arena in Crapaud, Prince Edward Island.

Photograph of a Holiday Inn billboard

MS-5-22, Box 18, Folder 9
Item
[19-]

Part of Joy O'Brien fonds

Item is a photograph of a Holiday Inn billboard which notes "Joe Sealy, Bucky Adams, Chuck Cornish in lounge tonight." No date is noted.

Photograph of a Nova Scotia Mass Choir member with Billy Preston

MS-5-22, Box 9, Folder 6
Item
[ca. 1993]

Part of Joy O'Brien fonds

Item is a photograph of a member of the Nova Scotia Mass Choir with Billy Preston.

Photograph of a Nova Scotia Mass Choir rehearsal

MS-5-22, Box 9, Folder 40
Item
March 4, 1996

Part of Joy O'Brien fonds

Item is a photograph of a Nova Scotia Mass Choir rehearsal which took place on March 4, 1996.

Photograph of a Nova Scotia Mass Choir rehearsal

MS-5-22, Box 12, Folder 6
File
May 1995

Part of Joy O'Brien fonds

File contains photographs of a Nova Scotia Mass Choir rehearsal from May 1995.

Photographs feature Jeremiah Sparks, Tim Edmonds, John Dalton, and other choir members.

Photograph of a Nova Scotia Mass Choir rehearsal

MS-5-22, Box 10, Folder 13
Item
October 19, 1996

Part of Joy O'Brien fonds

Item is a photograph of the Nova Scotia Mass Choir at a rehearsal on October 19, 1996.

Photograph of a Nova Scotia Mass Choir rehearsal

MS-5-22, Box 16, Folder 3
Item
January 19, 2012

Part of Joy O'Brien fonds

Item is a photograph of a Nova Scotia Mass Choir rehearsal from January 19, 2012.

Photograph of B.B. King

MS-5-22, Box 18, Folder 10
Item
[19-]

Part of Joy O'Brien fonds

Item is a photograph of B.B. King playing the guitar with the handwritten annotation "To Bucky From B.B." No date is noted.

Photograph of Brainerd Blyden-Taylor

MS-5-22, Box 17, Folder 14
Item
August 1997

Part of Joy O'Brien fonds

Item is a photograph of Brainerd Blyden-Thomas, director of the Orpheus Choir and one of the founding directors of the Nova Scotia Mass Choir.

Photograph of Bruce Chapman

MS-5-22, Box 17, Folder 19
Item
2014

Part of Joy O'Brien fonds

Item is a photograph of Bruce Chapman with two unnamed individuals taken by Marcin Moka Photography and developed by Joy O'Brien.

Photograph of Bucky Adams

MS-5-22, Box 18, Folder 6
Item
[19-]

Part of Joy O'Brien fonds

Item is a black and white photograph of Bucky Adams holding his saxophone on stage. No date is noted.

Photograph of Bucky Adams

MS-5-22, Box 18, Folder 14
Item
[19-]

Part of Joy O'Brien fonds

Item is a black and white portrait of Bucky Adams holding a saxophone. No date is noted.

Photograph of Bucky Adams and Oscar Peterson

MS-5-22, Box 18, Folder 11
Item
1983

Part of Joy O'Brien fonds

Item is a copy of a photograph of Bucky Adams playing saxophone and Oscar Peterson playing piano dated 1983.

Photograph of Bucky Adams at an album release for the Nova Scotia Mass Choir

MS-5-22, Box 16, Folder 36
Item
February 1996

Part of Joy O'Brien fonds

Item is a photograph of Nova Scotia Mass Choir members at CBC radio for the release of the album, "He Never Failed Me Yet," in February 1996.

Photograph features Bucky Adams and the band.

Photograph of Bucky Adams at Merrill's restaurant

MS-5-22, Box 16, Folder 40
Item
October 1995

Part of Joy O'Brien fonds

Item is a photograph of Bucky Adams at Merrill's restaurant.

Photograph of Bucky Adams at the Halifax Jazz Festival

MS-5-22, Box 16, Folder 43
Item
July 2010

Part of Joy O'Brien fonds

Item is a photograph of Bucky Adams at the Halifax Jazz Festival in July 2010.

Photograph of Bucky Adams at the international canoe championships

MS-5-22, Box 16, Folder 38
Item
August 1997

Part of Joy O'Brien fonds

Item is a photograph of Bucky Adams at the International Canoe Championships in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia in August 1997.

Photograph also features Jeremiah Sparks, Linda Carvery, and one other member of the Nova Scotia Mass Choir.

Photograph of Bucky Adams in Prince Edward Island

MS-5-22, Box 16, Folder 37
Item
April 1996

Part of Joy O'Brien fonds

Item is a photograph of Bucky Adams with the Nova Scotia Mass Choir in Prince Edward Island.

Photograph also features Kathy Grant, Karen Grant, Lela Coles, and other choir members.

Photograph of Bucky Adams performances

MS-5-22, Box 16, Folder 46
Item
February 2012

Part of Joy O'Brien fonds

Item is a photograph of Bucky Adams performing at the Valentine's Day concert, "For the Love of God IV," in February 2012.

Photograph of Bucky Adams performances

MS-5-22, Box 16, Folder 47
Item
[between 1994 and 2014]

Part of Joy O'Brien fonds

Item is a photograph of Bucky Adams performing on stage with his saxophone. No date is noted.

Photograph of Bucky Adams receiving the pioneer award

MS-5-22, Box 16, Folder 44
Item
January 2011

Part of Joy O'Brien fonds

Item is a photograph of Bucky Adams receiving the Pioneer Award at the African Nova Scotian Music Association awards.

Photograph of Dave Downey

MS-5-22, Box 17, Folder 5
Item
[between 2000 and 2020]

Part of Joy O'Brien fonds

Item is a photograph print of Dave Downey, a Canadian middleweight champion.

Photograph of David Woods

MS-5-22, Box 17, Folder 107
Item
[2007?]

Part of Joy O'Brien fonds

Item is a photograph of David Woods at Yarmouth branch of the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, where he worked as a curator. No date is noted.

Photograph of Eileen Joyce

MS-5-22, Box 17, Folder 49
Item
July 19, 1997

Part of Joy O'Brien fonds

Item is a photograph of Eileen Joyce performing with Joe Colley, Lela Coles, and Helen Vaughan on July 19, 1997.

Photograph of Eileen Joyce and Bill Harvey

MS-5-22, Box 22, Folder 14
Item
August 6, 2000

Part of Joy O'Brien fonds

Item is a photograph of Eileen Joyce and Bill Harvey on their wedding day with members of the Nova Scotia Mass Choir.

Photograph features Joe Colley, Tim Dunn, Lela Coles, and other choir members.

Photograph of Eileen Joyce performance

MS-5-22, Box 17, Folder 51
Item
[ca. 2000]

Part of Joy O'Brien fonds

Item is a photograph of Eileen Joyce performing on stage. No date is noted.

Photograph of Frank MacKay with the Nova Scotia Mass Choir

MS-5-22, Box 17, Folder 65
Item
[between 2010 and 2015]

Part of Joy O'Brien fonds

Item is a photograph of Frank MacKay with members of the Nova Scotia Mass Choir.

Photograph features Joe Colley, Karen Grant, Kathy Grant, and others.

Photograph of Gary Steed at the Natal Day Festival

MS-5-22, Box 17, Folder 95
Item
July 31, 2011

Part of Joy O'Brien fonds

Item is a photograph of Gary Steed at the Natal Day Festival on July 31, 2011.

Photograph of Jackie Richardson

MS-5-22, Box 17, Folder 75
Item
[between 2000 and 2020]

Part of Joy O'Brien fonds

Item is a photograph of Jackie Richardson performing. No date is noted.

Photograph of Jackie Richardson and Dutch Robertson

MS-5-22, Box 17, Folder 78
Item
October 4, 2016

Part of Joy O'Brien fonds

Item is a photograph of Jackie Richardson and Dutch Robertson dated to October 4, 2016. The photograph was used in a Local Xpress article: "Travelling with the Green Book in Juanita Peters' newest play."

Photograph of Jeremiah Sparks

MS-5-22, Box 17, Folder 90
Item
[between 2010 and 2020]

Part of Joy O'Brien fonds

Item is an undated photograph of Jeremiah Sparks.

Photograph of Jeremiah Sparks

MS-5-22, Box 24, Folder 16
Item
[between 2000 and 2020]

Part of Joy O'Brien fonds

Item is a photograph of Jeremiah Sparks and two other individuals at Vancouver East Cultural Centre.

Photograph of Juanita Peters and the cast of Settling Africville

MS-5-22, Box 17, Folder 73
Item
2014

Part of Joy O'Brien fonds

Item is a photograph of director Juanita Peters and the cast of the play, "Settling Africville," in 2014. The play was written by George Elliott Clark.

Photographs feature Novelee Buchan, Drew O'Hara, Jacob Sampson, Naomi-Joy Blackhall, John O'Keefe, and others.

Photograph of Lela Coles

MS-5-22, Box 20, Folder 21
Item
[between 2000 and 2020]

Part of Joy O'Brien fonds

Item is a copy of a signed photograph of Lela Colley. Photograph notes "Glad you enjoyed the show love you always xoxo Lela."

Photograph of Lenora Downey with hosts

MS-5-22, Box 10, Folder 17
Item
1996

Part of Joy O'Brien fonds

Item is a photograph of Lenora Downey of the Nova Scotia Mass Choir with host family, Claire and Raphael Nyiti in Coxheath, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia.

Photograph of Linda Carvery

MS-5-22, Box 19, Folder 3
Item
[2011?]

Part of Joy O'Brien fonds

Item is a photograph of Linda Carvery posed in front of a fireplace.

Photograph of Linda Carvery

MS-5-22, Box 16, Folder 66
Item
[ca. 2003]

Part of Joy O'Brien fonds

Item is a photograph of Linda Carvery and another individual.

Photograph of Linda Carvery

MS-5-22, Box 17, Folder 4
Item
October 1-2, 2017

Part of Joy O'Brien fonds

Item is a photograph of Linda Carvery and others at a workshop that took place in October 2017.

Photograph of Linda Carvery

MS-5-22, Box 18, Folder 21
Item
[between 2005 and 2015]

Part of Joy O'Brien fonds

Item is a photograph of Linda Carvery looking out of a window with a plant, a stack of books, and a pair of glasses on a table.

Photograph of Linda Carvery

MS-5-22, Box 13, Folder 14
Item
1998

Part of Joy O'Brien fonds

Item is a printed photograph of Linda Carvery, member of the Nova Scotia Mass Choir, singing on stage in 1998.

Photograph of Linda Carvery and Bill Stevenson

MS-5-22, Box 16, Folder 100
Item
July 27, 2015

Part of Joy O'Brien fonds

Item is a photograph of Linda Carvery and Bill Stevenson.

Photograph of Linda Carvery and Jeremiah Sparks

MS-5-22, Box 11, Folder 42
Item
December 18, 1998

Part of Joy O'Brien fonds

Item is a photograph of Nova Scotia Mass Choir members, Linda Carvery and Jeremiah Sparks, on CBC's "Mainstreet" radio program.

Photograph of Linda Carvery at the Keshen Goodman library

MS-5-22, Box 16, Folder 94
Item
February 12, 2015

Part of Joy O'Brien fonds

Item is a photograph of Linda Carvery with Woody Woods, Des Adams, and Henry Bishop for African Heritage Month celebrations at the Keshen Goodman Library in February 2015.

Photograph of Linda Carvery at the Natal Day Festival

MS-5-22, Box 16, Folder 71
Item
August 6, 2006

Part of Joy O'Brien fonds

Item is a photograph of Linda Carvery performing at the Alexander Keith's Natal Day Festival in Halifax, Nova Scotia on August 6, 2006.

Photograph of Linda Carvery performances

MS-5-22, Box 16, Folder 80
Item
[2011 or 2012]

Part of Joy O'Brien fonds

Item is a photograph of Linda Carvery performing.

Photograph of Linda Carvery with other performers

MS-5-22, Box 16, Folder 93
Item
February 14, 2015

Part of Joy O'Brien fonds

Item is a photograph of Linda Carvery with Eileen Joyce, Bill Harvey, Walter Borden, Woody Woods, and others. Photograph is dated to February 14, 2015.

Photograph of Marko Simmonds