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Photographs

Series consists of photographs related to the Nova Scotia Mass Choir from 1925 to 2021.

Documents related to Bucky Adams

File contains documents related to Bucky Adams, a jazz artist from Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Documents include programs, ephemera, correspondence, magazine clippings, and newspaper clippings related to Amnesty International, the Black Loyalist Heritage Society, CBC Television studios, a copy of Bucky Adams’ birth certificate, a copy of the Diamond Jubilee medal certificate awarded to Bucky Adams in 2012, Black Focus magazine, Halifax Jazz Festival, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, a copy of the invitation to Bucky Adams and The Basin Street’s album releases and performances, Dartmouth Heritage Museum’s production of “The Phantom of the Opera” in 2011, Bucky Adams’ memorial, and others.

Documents related to Linda Carvery

File contains documents related to Linda Carvery.

Documents include programs, ephemera, correspondence, magazine clippings, and newspaper clippings related to Black Focus magazine, Linda Carvery receiving an honourary degree at Saint Mary's University in 1998, Halifax Festival of the Arts, Halifax Jazz Festival, East Coast Music Association awards, Neptune Theatre productions, Ladies in Blue concerts, Martin Luther King concerts with the Nova Scotia Mass Choir, Linda Carvery’s appointment to citizenship judge, the album release for “Yesterday / Today”, election campaign material, and others.

Documents related to Nova Scotia Mass Choir and friends

File contains documents related to Pam Marsh, Donna Marshall, Doris Mason, Dutch Mason, Garrett Mason, One Heart Broken, Odetta Holmes, activist Rosa Parks, Sylvia Parris-Drummond, Larry Patterson, Stephen Pedersen, the People's Gospel Choir of Montreal, Juanita Peters, the Polokwane Choral Society, the Preston Cultural Festival, Jackie Richardson, Mark Riley, Dutch Robinson, Lucille Robinson, Viki Samuels-Stewart, musical group The Sanctified Brothers, Deborah Sangster, Sankofa Songs, writer Charles Saunders, Joe Sealy, Wendy Shea, the Shining Lights Choir, Shy Luv, Marko Simmonds, Verona Singer, Dee Dee Slye, and Sandra Slawter.

Documents include programs, ephemera, and newspaper clippings related to the Ladies In Blue tour, Juanita Peters' plays, including "I M Possible," "Settling Africville," "The Green Book," and other productions, various Natal Day performances, the African Nova Scotian Music Association awards, Joe Sealy's series "Africville Stories," the Atlantic Jazz Festival, and others.

Documents related to Nova Scotia Mass Choir and friends

File contains documents related to playwright and poet laureate Shauntay Grant, Elizabeth Guildford, the Hallelujah Praise Choir, Sylvia Hamilton, Wayn Hamilton, Sean Harris, Dave Hillier, bassist Bruce Jacobs, Anne Johnson-McDonald, Sharon Johnson, poet laureate El Jones, Oliver Jones, and Rocky Jones.

Photograph of the Lee Boys

Item is a photograph of the musical group, the Lee Boys, who hosted a workshop for Atlantic Jazz Festival in 2002.

Documents related to Nova Scotia Mass Choir

File contains documents related to the Nova Scotia Mass Choir in 1992.

Documents include programs and newspaper clippings related to Gospel Festival, the Africville Geneological Society Annual Memorial Church Service, and the musical, "God's Trombones."

Documents related to Nova Scotia Mass Choir

File contains documents related to the Nova Scotia Mass Choir from 1992 to 2020.

Documents include track listings and timestamps for audiocassette recordings from 1992 to 1993, membership lists, song listings and guest artist names for each episode of the television program, "Hallelujah," from 1996 to 1997, track listings, dates, and names of artists for videocassette recordings

Guest artists include Hart Rouge, Lorraine Klaasen, the Holmes Brothers, Martha Reeves, Joe Sealy, the Gospel Heirs Quartet, and others.

Song titles include "Amazing Grace," "Battle Hymn," "Gospel Train," "Go Tell it on the Mountain," and others.

File includes an official event program for "A Conversation With Barack Obama." The live event took place at Scotiabank Centre in Halifax, Nova Scotia on November 13, 2019. The Nova Scotia Mass Choir performed at the close of the event.

Sound recording of Nova Scotia Mass Choir performances

Item is a sound recording of Nova Scotia Mass Choir performances.

Side A contains recordings of the Nova Scotia Mass Choir at Gospel Festival in 1992. Side B contains recording of the Nova Scotia Mass Choir on CBC Mainstreet in 1992 and 1993.

Video recording of Glory Hallelujah!

Item is a video recording of the Nova Scotia Mass Choir at Gospel Festival in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The recording is without commercials.

Performances feature Kathleen Dyson, Lorraine Klaasen, Dutch Robinson, and the Barrett Sisters.

Video recording of Nova Scotia Mass Choir highlights

Item is a video recording of Nova Scotia Mass Choir performance highlights from 1992 to 1994.

Highlights include performances by Dutch Robinson and the Barrett Sisters, Martin Luther King concert rehearsals, a trip to Washington, "Christmas Daddies" telethons, a rehearsal and performance at the Southern Christian Leadership Convention in Dallas, and performances at the Black Cultural Centre.

Video recording of Glory Hallelujah!

Item is a video recording of the Nova Scotia Mass Choir at the Gospel Festival in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Performances feature Kathleen Dyson, Lorraine Klaasen, Dutch Robinson, and the Barrett Sisters.

Sound recording of Nova Scotia Mass Choir performances

Item is a sound recording of the Nova Scotia Mass Choir performance, "In Our Time."

Side A is a recording of "Life Every Voice," "Color Me Love," "Just a Closer Walk With Thee," "Everyone is You," "Let Us Break Bread Together," "Kumbaya," "We are a Family," "I Need You Lord," and "Learn to Dream." Side B is a recording of "Siyahumba."

Sound recording of Nova Scotia Mass Choir performances

Item is a sound recording of the Nova Scotia Mass Choir performing "In Our Time," music from African Canadians Achievement.

Side A is a recording of "Siyahumb'e," "Life Ev'ry Voice and Sing," "Color Me Love," "Just a Closer Walk With Thee," and "Let Us Break Bread Together." Side B is a recording of "Kum Ba Yah," "We are a Family," "I Need You Lord," "Learn to Dream," and "A Song of My Own."

The international gospel festival '92

Item is a poster for the International Gospel Festival in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The festival featured performances by Etta James, Odetta, Walter Borden and God's Trombones, Martin Luther King III, and others.

Photographs of the Nova Scotia Mass Choir at the Africville reunion and Gospel Festival

File contains photographs of the Nova Scotia Mass Choir at the Africville Reunion, which took place at Seaview Park in Halifax, Nova Scotia in 1992. File also contains photographs of the Nova Scotia Mass Choir at Gospel Festival in 1992.

Photographs feature members of the Nova Scotia Mass Choir as well as Almeta Speaks, Martin Luther King III, Kat Dyson, and Dutch Robinson.

Documents related to Nova Scotia Mass Choir

File contains documents related to the Nova Scotia Mass Choir in 1993.

Documents include newspaper clippings, ephemera, and programs related to the Martin Luther King concert with Symphony Nova Scotia, the choir's performance in Washington, D.C. as part of the thirty year anniversary of Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference held in Maryland, and others.

File also contains meeting minutes, committee lists, itineraries, rehearsal guidelines, tour guidelines, and membership lists.

Documents related to Nova Scotia Mass Choir and friends

File contains documents related to George Jordan, Eileen Joyce, jazz group Ladies in Blue, bassist Steve Lawrence, Owen Lee, Beverly Lewis, Lisa MacDougall, Frank MacKay, Donna MacKenzie, Kim McLeod, Scott MacMillan, Jimmy MacPherson, and Lorraine Klaasen.

Documents include newspaper clippings, posters, programs, and ephemera related to the Halifax Blues Festival, the Atlantic Jazz Festival, the Ladies in Blues' annual breast cancer benefit, the Atlantic Film Festival, the Nova Scotia Mass Choir's annual Martin Luther King concert, album releases, and Neptune Theatre's productions of "Buddy: The Buddy Holly Musical" and "Cats: The Musical."

Documents related to Nova Scotia Mass Choir and friends

File contains documents related to Laura Smith, Reeny Smith, Reverend Wallace Smith, Deanna Sparks, Jamie Sparks, Jeremiah Sparks, Richard Sparks, Mavis Staples, Gary Steed, and Symphony Nova Scotia.

Documents include programs, ephemera, magazine clippings, and newspaper clippings related to the Halifax Jazz Festival, the African Nova Scotian Music Association awards, the Prismatic Arts Festival, the annual Martin Luther King "I Have a Dream" concert, and various theatrical productions. Theatrical productions include Neptune Theatre's "Five Guys Named Moe," "Riot," "World Without Shadows," "The Wizard of Oz," as well as Eastern Front Theatre's "The Satchmo Suite."

Documents related to Nova Scotia Mass Choir and friends

File contains documents related to Karl Falkenham, Jim Faraday, Shelley Fashan, Four the Moment musical group, Four Walls of Blue, Carolyn Fowler, Isaac Fraser, Rosie Fraser, Freedom Festival , Suzy Gangoo Hansen, Marsha Gannon, Neptune Theatre, the Gospel Heirs musical group, Adrien Gough, Judith Virginia Grace, Belinda Grant, and Glen Grant.

Documents include newspaper clippings, posters, programs, and ephemera related to the art exhibit "Mommay's Patches: Traditions and Superstitions" by Letitia Fraser, Four the Moment's final performance, the Gospel Heirs performances, Neptune Theatre's productions of "The Gospel at Colonus" and "To Kill a Mockingbird," and others.

Photographs of a Nova Scotia Mass Choir party

File contains photographs of the Nova Scotia Mass Choir party at Dan Blundon's house.

Photographs feature Tim Edmonds, Beverly Lewis, Denise Arsenault, Archie Beals, Donna Marshall, Kathy Grant, Karen Grant, Jeremiah Sparks, Mary Ann Boyd, Sharon Johnson, Debbie DeLeon, and Trudy States.

Sound recording of Nova Scotia Mass Choir performance

Item is the master sound recording of the Nova Scotia Mass Choir performing "In Pursuit of a Dream," the annual Martin Luther King concert.

The track listing includes "None of Us are Free," "Oh Freedom," "Color Me Love," "Teach Peace," "How Long," "Learn to Dream," "I Have a Dream for the World," and "We Can Change the World."

Documents related to Nova Scotia Mass choir and friends

File contains documents related to Beulah Brinston, Jeri Brown, Tamar Brown, Measha Brueggergosman, Novelee Buchan, Cyndi Cain, Elaine Cain, Tiyaila Cain-Grant, John Chaisson, Bruce Chapman, Joanne Clancy, George Elliott Clarke, Quenta Clyke, Lela Coles, the Colley Family, Floyd Colley, George Boyd's theatrical production of Consecrated Ground, the musical group Conquerors for Christ, and Thelma Coward-Ince.

Documents include newspaper clippings, programs, posters, and tickets related to East Coast Music Association performances, Canadian Screen Award nominations, Jongleur Group's "Harmony of Souls: A Tribute to Carrie M. Best," Atlantic Film Festival, Consecrated Ground, "A Tribute to Nina Simone" in 2015, and "Vera's Lament: A Jazz Opera by Jeri Brown."

Documents related to Nova Scotia Mass Choir and friends

File contains documents related to Symphony Nova Scotia stage manager Jimmy Tasco, Sue Taylor, Johnny Theodore, Luvina Thomas, musical group Touch of Hope, Up on the Roof, Helen Vaughan, Pat Watson, Angels of Lightning, Gerry White, Cecily Williams, musical group The Williams Sisters, Eastern Front Theatre's production of Whylah Falls, Anne Marie Woods, David Woods, Woody Woods, and Carolann Wright-Parks.

Documents include programs, ephemera, magazine clippings, and newspaper clippings related to Halifax Comedy Festival, Theatre Art Guild's "Accidental Death of an Anarchist," various Nova Scotia Mass Choir performances and concerts, Natal Day festivals, the Atlantic Fringe Festival, Halifax Public Libraries' African Heritage Month, Eastern Front Theatre's "Whylah Falls," the Prismatic Arts Festival, the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia's exhibit "Mary Lee Blendolph, Gee's Bend Quilts and Beyond," and Black Artists Network of Nova Scotia's exhibit "The Secret Codes: Contemporary African Nova Scotian Narrative and Picture Quilts."

Photographs of the Nova Scotia Mass Choir performance

File contains photographs of Nova Scotia Mass Choir performing at the "We Shall" concert, held at the Rebecca Cohn auditorium in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The concert was organized for the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination in 1994.
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