"Day Done Broke" is recorded in 2006 is a collection of multicultural folk songs. Arranged by Faith for children to sing along to in Swahili, Objibwa, Japanese, Korean, Spanish and Jewish folk song as well as an original Black history song about Marie Joseph Angelique.

“Faith Nolan Live“ is a her first live release. She recorded a live concert at La Pena, Berkley CA ( home of the Buena Vista Social Club) in 2003. Original Blues, and jazz songs as well as standards it is delightfully unique and a refreshing real recording in a sea of plastic. Accompanied by her all time favorite, reknowned Jazz pianist and composer Mary Watkins on piano it is her dream recording come true.

Other Cd’s include Faith’s CD entitled “Faith Nolan Compilation 1986-1996” combines her favorite original compositions recorded in the last ten years. 1996 she released “Hard to Imagine”, songs about the continual labour of love and struggle. 1989 she recorded “Freedom to Love”, original compositions about Native, anti-racism, ending homphobia as well as songs by Billie Holiday and Bessie Smith. In 1987 she put out “Sistership” a tribute and commemoration to women's continuing struggles for equality. “Africville”, 1986 the first album and songbook about Black History in Canada from slavery to the displacement of Black people in Africville, Nova Scotia in 1969.

Faith Nolan was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia and her parents and extended family were coal miners in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia of African, Miqmaq and Irish heritage. She later grew up in Toronto's working-class Cabbagetown. Her commitment to social justice comes from her life experiences and the people she grew up with, and she works through the cultural tool of music. Her music is her political work, a politics firmly rooted in her being working class, a woman, African Canadian and queer. Faith is a singer, songwriter, and guitarist. She has performed at Concerts, Music Festivals, Conferences, Universities, Rallies, and Women¹s Events etc... Using music to bring about social change for a fairer and better world.

Email: faith@nexicom.net
Website: www. faithnolan.org

Discography

• "Day Done Broke" 2006
  Faith Nolan with Singing Elementary Teacher of Toronto
  Collection of multicultural folk songs for children
• "I am A Prisoner" 2004
  radio /doc. on Nigerian jails with music by women and men prisoners of Enugu, KiriKiri max and minimum jail. Music also by Femi Kuti, and Faith Nolan
• Faith Nolan Live, 2003 MWIC
• LET IT SHINE 2002
  Executive Producer/Director/musical arrangements/lead vocals SEIU
• Overloaded, Fed Up and On THE LINE 2002
  Musical director/ lead singer/musical arrangement/lead vocals CUPE
• Faith Nolan Compilation, MWIC 1986-1996
• Hard to Imagine, MWIC 1996
• Freedom to Love, 1989
• Sistership, 1987 MWIC
• Africville, 1986

Faith Nolan is an artist who is also a community builder, she is presently the director of Sing Elemenatry Teacher of Toronto and is in the process of founding a music therapy course for women prisoner in an Ontario jail. She has founded three Toronto based choirs, Sistering Singers, Mandela Children¹s Choir, Voices of Freedom. In the late eighties she founded and directed Kingston Women Prisoners Choir. In 2004 Faith was on the Board of Mayworks, Toronto. She created Joint Effort in 1991. She was a founding member of the Black women¹s Collective 1984 and Our Lives Newspaper 1986, Sisters Café 1991, MWIC in 1983-present, WRPM record distribution in 1995, Camp SIS 1995- present. She was on the Board with Charlie King, Pete Seeger in 1987 of the PMN. She is a composer and guitarist whose style varies from blues and folk, to jazz, with a taste of funk and reggae, is a seasoned performer who has built a strong and faithful audience.

Faith's original compositions, as well as her covers of better known songs, are strongly rooted in the cultural language of Black North American music: spirituals, gospel, jazz and blues. An accomplished musician who plays slide guitar, tambourine, harmonica, and banjo in the earliest blues tradition, Faith also possesses a silky voice that wraps itself around a song. Her lyrics voice a concern for the world of the common people. Music may well be in her blood as her mother was a drummer, her late father was a musician and her sister played in a band. An Afro-Nova Scotian Miq Maq, Irish activist whose songs deal with a range of issue including Afro Canadian History and native heritage, feminism, workers' issue and children's rights, Faith is one of those rare artists who can grab a song and make the message ring out true and clear. Enhancing her musical is the creative allowances that come from being self-taught.

Faith Nolan's songs come from a deep commitment to the struggles or people throughout the world. According to Faith, "Music is a powerful tool that can be used for political and cultural expression." It is in a global context that Nolan used this tool to connect the conditions and exploitation of oppressed peoples, in songs such as "The Richest In The World". Hard to Imagine lyrically tells the story of poverty, racism, violence against women, and the need to struggle for better world to live in.

FILMS

Faith produced a film about women in prison doing healing through sharing songs and understanding the globalization of the prison industrial complex.

• Within These Cages 2003€ by Faith Nolan

Faith has also composed, arranged and performed music for the National Film Board films:

• Listening for something, 1995 - by Dionne Brand
• Long Time Comin, 1993 - by Dionne Brand
• Sisters in the Struggle, 1992 - by Dionne Brand
• Older, Stronger, Wiser, 1989 - by Dionne Brand

Faith has toured and performed across Canada, Caribbean, Europe, Japan, United States and Nigeria. She has played for countless benefits and is active in a range of social issues.