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PEOPLES VOICE CAFE Presents Faith Nolan live in NEW YORK Faith Nolan "JAILHOUSE BLUES" with BUlldagger Bluesband

                                                                                                                                                        

          

                               PEOPLES VOICE CAFE  Presents                                                                         

      Faith Nolan "JAILHOUSE BLUES" Launch- with Bulldagger Blues Band

              Pamela Dogra (percussion +voc.)-Dinah Thorpe ( ukelele+ voc. )                              

                                      words by women prisoners                                              

                             SATURDAY  Feb. 15th  2014  8pm                                            

                                                          at the Community Church of New York (U-U)                                                            

                                                         40 East 35th Street • New York, NY 10016                                                                 

                                                               INFO:  http://www.peoplesvoicecafe.org/                                                                           

 

                      The Peoples' Voice Cafe is an alternative coffee house offering quality entertainment. 

                        We provide a space for the artistic expression of a wide variety of humanitarian issues and concerns. 

                      The cafe is run as a not-for-profit collective and is not affiliated with any political organization. 

                        New participating members are always welcome.

 

                            Saturday evening, February 15, 2014.  

                   sharing the evening with Thelma Thomas, a storyteller who lives here in New York City.  

Jailhouse Blues CD Launch -New york SEpt 21 2013

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                                                                              Faith Nolan        Any Womon.s Jailhouse Blues 

 

 

 After six years  of  collecting song  lyrics  by women prisoners Faith Nolan's   launch of the new Cd is  here!                              

Spread the  news  about  wimmins  jailhouse blues.Jails close to home Unlike most people, Nolan has never felt uncomfortable going into prisons. She was raised in a working-class black neighbourhood in Halifax at a time where the only jobs a
black person could count on were that of a maid or a railroad worker. "People had to do little extras to live decently," she says.
The more entrepreneurial would pursue drug trafficking, prostitution or robbery.Nolan's own mother was a bootlegger and operated a gambling parlour out of their home. "I grew up with people going to jail all the time," Nolan says. "The police were always busting into our house and taking her or somebody  off to jail."As a result, the music she emerged with was freedom
songs and blues.Only Nolan's versions are concocted with a twist: she uses them to educate people on issues close to her heart - racism, homophobia, sexism, labour rights and class oppression.  She has 14 CD's   to date and has collaborated on a variety of projects for radio, film and community activism . Faith. projects include a trip to Nigeria with the International Conference on Penal Abolition,consisting of concerts with the women of the KiriKiri and Enugu prisons,which she plans to release on disc next year. "They really did the performing,I just started a couple of songs," Nolan says. "The women came in with drums and beautiful voices." In 2002, she also made a video in coordination withthe women of San Francisco County Jail. 

PSYCHOUT

A Conference for organizing against psychiatry- music art and fundraising- a global forum for activists peeps, Features Faith Nolan and The CUPE Freedom Singer

Location: TRINITY ST. PAUL 427 Bloor St West