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Taking Bertha Crawford’s Story Back to Her Birthplace
A presentation on The Canadian Nightingale at the Elmvale Public Library, June 7, 2019, with thanks to librarian Jodie Delgado.
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1000 Islands Writers Festival 2019
Saturday, April 27, 2019, 2:00-3:00 p.m., Gananoque Inn. Participating in a panel discussion on Selling Yourself and Your Book, with Terry Fallis and Ted Barris.
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La Scena Musciale Publishes Excerpt
The September issue of La Scena Musicale includes an excerpt from The Canadian Nightingale, p. 54-55, Art Song: The Respectable Alternative in Edwardian Toronto. Get your copy free online, or in musical venues across Canada.
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Bertha Crawford: A Canadian Cultural Chameleon in Eastern Europe
Thursday, November 8, 2018, 12:15 pm, Walter Hall, University of Toronto. Pre-concert lecture for the Music in the Afternoon series of Women’s Musical Club of Toronto. Preceding a concert by Thomas Oliemans, baritone, with Malcolm Martineau piano.
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Heritage Ignite!
Wednesday, September 26, 2018, 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM, Ottawa Public Library – Main Branch, 120 Metcalfe St. Ottawa’s history enthusiasts share their passion for our past! Local history experts will have 5 minutes each to tell you what ignites their curiosity about Ottawa’ history. Come and be enlightened (quickly!) I’ll be talking about the…
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All in a Day Book Panel Includes The Canadian Nightingale on its April Book List
Thanks to Ann Archer, Manager of Content Services, for including The Canadian Nightingale in her reviews on the April edition of the All in a Day Book Panel. Listen to the whole review on CBC Ottawa’s All in a Day Book Panel, (starting at 12:04 minutes.) Read about it here.
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The Canadian Nightingale Sings Again!
Thanks to Connie Henderson for a great clip of the final sing-along hymn at the book launch concert for The Canadian Nightingale, January 21, 2018. What a great afternoon! https://youtu.be/qDcUwgxXuHw
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The Canadian Nightingale Sings Again! Celebrating the life of a forgotten Canadian opera star
Sunday, January 21, 2018, 2 p.m. to 4 p.m., Church of St John the Evangelist, 154 Somerset Street West, Ottawa A concert to launch a new Canadian historical biography. Jane Cooper will read from The Canadian Nightingale: Bertha Crawford and the Dream of the Prima Donna. Ottawa musicians, Cara Gilbertson-Boese and Joanne Moorcroft, will bring together contemporary Canadian singers…
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Our Soldiers’ Stories, sponsored by the Ottawa Public Library
Thursday, November 9, 2017, 7 p.m. to 9 p.m., Dominion Chalmers United Church, Woodside Hall, Ottawa Renowned historian Tim Cook, will read from the second volume of his series on Canadians in the Second World War, Fight to the Finish, and discuss his work and his most recent title, Vimy: The Battle and the Legend. Also enjoy…
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The Canadian Nightingale Sings Again!
Click here to watch my interview with Dylan Black of Rogers TV Daytime Ottawa, January 18, 2018, chatting about the upcoming book launch of The Canadian Nightingale.