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MacNeil, Rita, 1944-2013.
Folk singers -- Nova Scotia -- Cape Breton Island -- Biography.
Women folk musicians -- Nova Scotia -- Cape Breton Island -- Biography.
Women singers -- Nova Scotia -- Cape Breton Island -- Biography.
Singers -- Nova Scotia -- Cape Breton Island -- Biography.
Women lyricists -- Nova Scotia -- Cape Breton Island -- Biography.
Lyricists -- Nova Scotia -- Cape Breton Island -- Biography.
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Television personalities -- Nova Scotia -- Cape Breton Island -- Biography.
East Coast music -- Biography.
Big Pond -- Cape Breton Island (N.S.) -- Biography.
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Rhindress, Charlie.
MacNeil, Rita, 1944-2013.
Folk singers -- Nova Scotia -- Cape Breton Island -- Biography.
Women folk musicians -- Nova Scotia -- Cape Breton Island -- Biography.
Women singers -- Nova Scotia -- Cape Breton Island -- Biography.
Singers -- Nova Scotia -- Cape Breton Island -- Biography.
Women lyricists -- Nova Scotia -- Cape Breton Island -- Biography.
Lyricists -- Nova Scotia -- Cape Breton Island -- Biography.
Women television personalities -- Nova Scotia -- Cape Breton Island -- Biography.
Television personalities -- Nova Scotia -- Cape Breton Island -- Biography.
East Coast music -- Biography.
Big Pond -- Cape Breton Island (N.S.) -- Biography.
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I'm not what I seem : the many stories of Rita MacNeil's life / Charlie Rhindress.
by
Rhindress, Charlie.
Formac Publishing Company Limited, [2016]
Call #:
781
.63092
M169r
Subjects
MacNeil, Rita, 1944-2013.
Folk singers -- Nova Scotia -- Cape Breton Island -- Biography.
Women folk musicians -- Nova Scotia -- Cape Breton Island -- Biography.
Women singers -- Nova Scotia -- Cape Breton Island -- Biography.
Singers -- Nova Scotia -- Cape Breton Island -- Biography.
Women lyricists -- Nova Scotia -- Cape Breton Island -- Biography.
Lyricists -- Nova Scotia -- Cape Breton Island -- Biography.
Women television personalities -- Nova Scotia -- Cape Breton Island -- Biography.
Television personalities -- Nova Scotia -- Cape Breton Island -- Biography.
East Coast music -- Biography.
Big Pond -- Cape Breton Island (N.S.) -- Biography.
ISBN:
9781459504462 (hc.)
Alternate title:
I am not what I seem : the many stories of Rita MacNeil's life
Description:
332 pages, [14] pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [312]-323), discography and index.
Summary:
"Rita MacNeil - one of the East Coast's great singer-songwriters. As a young girl with the dream of becoming a singer, she overcame a series of seemingly insurmountable obstacles and achieved success by believing in herself and refusing to give up. A trailblazer, Rita played an integral role in the women's movement in Canada and forged a path that was unique to her, paving the way for future generations of east coast musicians. Charlie Rhindress first came to know Rita as he collaborated with her on his play Flying on Her Own, incorporating more than twenty of her songs into a script that told the story of her life. Rhindress interviewed many of the people who worked with her and knew her best. The story of a strong, sensitive, complex woman emerged and the result is a powerful and moving portrait of a unique woman and important artist of her times."--Provided by publisher.
"Rita grew up in Big Pond, Cape Breton with three brothers and four sisters. Often chaotic, her youth included the physical and psychological trauma of surgery for a cleft palate, a first love affair that left her with a child and a broken heart, a marriage breakdown and numerous frustrating attempts to kick-start a musical career. After a number of unsuccessful attempts to find work in the music business, Rita MacNeil found inspiration in the women's movement. In 1989, at the Juno Awards, she and the Men of the Deeps performed Working Man and brought down the house. Her 1993 CBC TV Christmas special, One Upon A Christmas, drew 2 million viewers and her musical variety show Rita & Friends (winner of the 1996 Gemini Award) attracted 1 million viewers a week over three seasons."--From ritamacneil.com website.
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