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"Once
Upon a Christmas"
Rita
MacNeil
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About the Artist... |
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After
a number of unsuccessful attempts to find work in
the music business, Rita MacNeil found inspiration
in the women's movement. In 1971, she wrote about
women having a voice and called it Need For
Restoration; the next year she wrote a song
protesting a beauty pageant, called Born A Woman,
which became the title of her first album,
recorded in 1974. Picked up by Boot Records, BORN
A WOMAN launched MacNeil into the folk music
circuit.
The turning point, however,
was Expo '86 in Vancouver. Later that year, her
FLYING ON YOUR OWN album was recorded and then
released in 1987. The album soon went gold and
helped earn MacNeil her first Juno Award for Most
Promising Female Vocalist, at age 42.She sang in
Britain, opening for Steeleye Span. Her REASON TO
BELIEVE album went platinum in 1988, the same year
it was produced. She went to Australia to sing
with Andre-Philippe Gagnon. In 1989, at the Juno
Awards, she and the Men of the Deeps performed
Working Man and brought down the house. MacNeil
was on a roll. In 1990, she sold more records in
Canada than Garth Brooks. In 1991 she was invited
to play at Royal Albert Hall in England.
There were honourary
doctorates from five Canadian Universities. In
1992, she was inducted into the Order of Canada.
Her television appearances broke records - her
1993 CBC TV Christmas special, One Upon A
Christmas, drew 2 million viewers and her musical
variety show Rita & Friends attracted 1
million viewers a week over three seasons. There
were two more Junos, four Canadian Country Music
Awards and seven East Coast Music Awards in the
'90s.
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| 1.
Rocking
The Cradle/I Saw Three Ships
2. A Night to
Remember
3. Once Upon a
Christmas
4. Bright Lights
5. Good King
Wenceslas |
6.
The
Gift Of Love
7. Mary Mary
8. With My Family
9. When It Comes to
Christmas
10. Adeste Fideles
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