Tag: Inducted 1992

Canada Post will unveil a postage stamp in honour of acclaimed Canadian jazz singer Eleanor Collins, Friday, January 21, at 10:00am PST.

Angelina Calangis Avison performed with her brother, Conductor George Calangis and her four sisters Geneva, Mary, Helen, and Ethel. A popular act, they were billed in vaudeville theatre as the Musical Calangis Family and they played various mandolins and banjos to entertain their audiences. Angelina, who had studied violin with Arthur Gramm, Wilfred Rutley, Jean…
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