Anita Best
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Anita Best C.M. is a teacher, broadcaster, and well-known singer from the Atlantic province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.[1]
With Genevieve Lehr, Best collected the songs for Come and I Will Sing You: A Newfoundland Songbook, spending years travelling around the province collecting songs from anyone who cared to sing.[2]
In 2015 the Newfoundland and Labrador Folk Arts Society awarded her their Lifetime Achievement Award.[3]
Best was appointed a Member of the Order of Canada in 2011. The citation read, in part, "As a singer, storyteller and archivist, she has been active in collecting and performing the songs and tales of her ancestors, ensuring this priceless cultural legacy is not lost to future generations."[4]
Discography
- Albums
- Some Songs (with Sandy Morris)
- Crosshanded
- The Color of Amber (with Pamela Morgan)
- Amber Christmas (with Pamela Morgan and others)
- Lately Come Over - Bristol's Hope
- Eleven Eleven
- Contributing artist
- All The Best
- Another Time
- Rock Within The Sea
- Mujeres en la Musica (Spanish Release)
- Celtic Spirits II (German Release)
- Celtic Feelings (French Release)
- The Rough Guide to the Music of Canada (2005, World Music Network)
References
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- Members of the Order of Canada
- Living people
- People from Placentia, Newfoundland and Labrador
- Canadian music historians
- Singers from Newfoundland and Labrador
- Folk music historians
- Canadian women folk musicians
- 21st-century Canadian folk musicians