Tag: Music

Lovie Eli has toured across the United States and Canada as a vocalist and actress. She appeared in Joy at the Kennedy Centre; Black and gold Revue, Ain’t Misbehavin’ and It’s Time to Sing at the Arts Club, Nun-Sense for Vancouver Dinner Theatre and For Coloured Girls in Edmonton and Victoria. Her directing experience includes For Coloured Girls for Sepia Players and The Dream Continues for Black…
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Arthur (William) Delamont was born in Hereford, England, on January 25 in1892. He played clarinet and later cornet with his father and brothers in a Salvation Army band in Hereford. In 1910 the family moved to Canada and in 1914, intending to return to England for a great international Salvation Army convention, they suffered the sinking of the Empress of…
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Allard de Ridder was born in Dordrecht, Holland on May 3, 1887. He studied violin and conducting in Holland and at the Cologne Cons. He was a guest conductor at Arnhem, The Hague, and Amsterdam. For two seasons he conducted the National Opera in Amsterdam. In 1919 he emigrated to the USA and became assistant…
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Dee Daniels musical career is as varied as her four-octave vocal range is thrilling.. One critic says, “Daniels’ voice has a hypnotic quality, delivering an impressive range that gives the romantic songs and verse of 50 years ago new life and raw emotion.” Dee has a B.A. Degree in Art Education and taught high school art for a year in…
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Jane (Austin) Coop. Pianist, teacher, b Saint John, NB, 18 Apr 1950.  She won the CBC Talent Festival in 1970, the W.O. Forsyth Memorial Scholarship (for study in Europe) in 1971, and the Baldwin Prize in the Maryland International Piano Competition in 1972. She made her debut at the St Lawrence Centre in 1973. Between…
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