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Help mark World Suicide Prevention Day with the healing power of music.

The Canadian Mental Health Association invites you to a special FREE event for suicide prevention, awareness and hope at King’s Theatre, one of many happening live from coast to coast.

There will be live local music on the deck (or in the lobby if raining), as well as the streaming of a concert recorded live on September 8 at the Rebecca Cohn Auditorium in Halifax . There is no admission fee for this event.

Local artists have been invited to submit art for the lobby with the theme of “Affirmation of Life” in support of suicide prevention, awareness and hope. There will also be an exhibit of work by the “Art is Life” visual art group.

Live music will be provided by:

Duncan Draper and Musical Friends
CMHA’s Ukulele Sing-A-Long Group
“Passionate Measures”, a duo comprised of Lisa Huyer and Keith Wallis.
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Suicide Facts:

About 4,000 Canadians die by suicide every year.
Suicide is the second-most common cause of death among young people, but men in their 40s and 50s have the highest rate of suicide.
Women are three to four times more likely to attempt suicide than men, but men are three times more likely to die by suicide than women.

(Source: Canadian Mental Health Association)
For more information, go to mysteriousbarricades.org.
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CONCERT BROADCAST LIVE IN HD from the Rebecca Cohn Auditorium in Halifax
Lead organizer: Prof. Marcia Swanston
Artists and Performers

Peter Allen (piano)
Peter Allen, concert pianist, has been heard for years on CBC regional and national radio performing solo works, concertos with orchestra, and chamber music. He continues to stay busy performing many concerts, as well as participating regularly with Scotia Festival, The New Brunswick Summer Festival, the Kincardine Music Festival, Musique Royale and as soloist with numerous orchestras centered here in the Maritimes. He has recorded two solo cd’s as well as numerous duo recordings with flautist Patricia Creighton.
As a composer, Peter has fulfilled many commissions including Mar Atlantico; Variations on the Halifax Explosion; a Suite for Clarinet and Orchestra; and the much heralded CBC/SNS commissioned Hurricane Juan Piano Concerto. Of his many other compositions for many instrumental combinations, his most recent work for clarinet quintet, Lamentation was premiered in France in April of 2016 and later repeated in February, 2017 in evening of all Peter Allen works as part of the Cecilia Concert Series.
Peter is currently an Associate Professor of Piano at the Fountain School of Performing Arts at Dalhousie University.

Blue Engine String Quartet: Jennifer Jones, Anne Simons, Alexandra Bates, Hilary Brown
The Blue Engine String Quartet was created by four women as a vehicle for a more personal musical expression apart from their orchestral careers.
With many CBC broadcasts to their credit, the quartet has been at the forefront of the Atlantic Canadian music scene for two decades, whether it’s playing the core repertoire, collaborating with songwriters- most recently Reeny Smith, Catherine MacLellan and Erin Costelo or premiering the music of Canadian composers, the Blue Engine has covered a lot of track.
BESQ’s 2005 album, If It Be Your Will, songs of Leonard Cohen, was met with critical acclaim, including Mr. Cohen himself, who wrote “My dear colleagues, thank you for the sublime gift”.

Erin Costelo (jazz and contemporary singer)
Erin Costelo is an artist who is mining the truth – through writing, arranging, producing and masterful live performance. With a voice unlike any other in Canada she has the ability to successfully float between genres and stages, her unwavering vision continuously offering the best sound and voice to a feeling, idea or story. With songs that sound like they were written by your heroes. Heavily influenced by Gospel and Americana, she’s had the opportunity to open for heroes like Mavis Staples, Dr. John and Bettye Lavette and has recently performed with Levon Helm’s Midnight Ramble Band.
Her latest, self-produced album Down Below, the Status Quo was nominated for a total of twelve awards in her home of Eastern Canada and named the best R&B/Sould recording at the 2017 East Coast Music Awards. It is a magical, moonlight-soaked reverie, filled with drama and intensity; in one moment a defiant cry and in the next a desperate whisper. It has been described as “embodying the spirit of Nina Simone” and “conjuring the ghost of Donny Hathaway”.

D’Arcy Gray (percussion)
Canadian percussionist D’Arcy Philip Gray exploits his versatility to find himself in a great variety of performing situations. In the past ten years, Gray has premiered well over 100 new works, mostly solo or chamber music by Canadian composers. In addition, he participated in installations of Rainforest IV and the Collage Juke-Box project, both of which have been presented worldwide. He has also given dozens of clinics on three continents on a variety of subjects.
As of summer 2008, Gray has made Halifax, Nova Scotia his new home after 23 years in Montreal. He has been appointed Percussion Instructor at Dalhousie University. He is a graduate of the Juilliard School and McGill University. He has received grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, and the Getty Research Institute for the Arts and Humanities. He is a clinician for Yamaha Canada and Sabian. In his spare time he is a dedicated member of the Canadian Ski Patrol, an avid sailor, and a certified SCUBA diver.

Scott Macmillan (composer, conductor, guitar (jazz, Celtic))
Born in Halifax, Scott Macmillan enjoys a stellar reputation in Nova Scotia and abroad for his unusual versatility working in the fields of classical, pop, jazz, blues and celtic music.
Once inked, a Scott Macmillan biography is at once out of date, for he and his passion for creating music have already moved on to a new composition, arrangement commission, collaboration, performance, musical directing live or in the studio, conducting, teaching, or as a clinician.
Music has taken Macmillan to many places, to Carnegie Hall in New York twice, to perform his much loved ode to our world’s oceans Celtic Mass for the Sea, with his partner and librettist Jennyfer Brickenden. He has performed in the British Isles and Germany, the US and has crossed Canada many times to conduct orchestras, perform, make television and radio shows and sound tracks for films. Yet the many who seek out his talents know that Nova Scotia, the home of his birth, is where to find him.
2016 saw the completion of 3 new recordings. In April, Macmillan released Scott ’n the Rocks, Live at Stayner’s featuring his original music composed for his 12-piece jazz ensemble, celebrating their 10th anniversary. In July Scott and Cape Breton fiddler Colin Grant launched their 1st duo recording GOOD2GO and in September Scott released his serious music recording, Currents of Sable Island, an extended composition for solo voice and chamber ensemble based around his experiences on Sable Island. All 3 were nominated for 2017 East Coast Music Awards, Currents of Sable Island garnered Classical Composition of the Year while GOOD2GO took home Trad. Instrumental of the Year.
Inspired by his desire to learn and expand his own musical knowledge and knowing that the best students make the best teachers, Scott began mentoring a new generation of guitarists in 2008 at the Fountain School of Performing Arts, Dalhousie University.

Catherine Martin (drummer/singer)
A member of the Millbrook First Nation in Truro, Nova Scotia, Catherine Martin is an independent producer, director, writer, facilitator, communications consultant, drummer and the first woman Mi’kmaw filmmaker from the Atlantic Region. She has a BA from Dalhousie University in Theatre Arts and a Masters of Education from Mount St. Vincent with a focus on Media Literacy.
Among Catherine’s many, many films and documentaries are the award-winning animation film Little Boy who lived with Muini’skw (2004), the NFB film the Spirit of Annie May (2002) and Spirit Wind (2000) and Bringing Annie May Home. She has produced videos for Coady Intl Institute’s Indigenous Women in Community Leadership , Mi’kmawey Debert Project, Truro, Atlantic Aboriginal Entrepreneur Shows, Ulnooweg Development Group and continues to work with organizations to produce stories about Mi’kmaq and First nations communities.
She has served on many Boards of Directors and has helped to develop many of the polciies and programs within the Canadian Cultural and Arts Institutions to advance First Nation Artits in the respective disciplines and has advocated fore educational access to professional careers.
Catherine was recently awarded the Women in Film Award for her contribution to the film industry in Canada. She teaches communications and fine arts for the University College of Cape Breton in Mi’kmaq communities and was the 14th Nancy Chair in Women’s Studies at Mount Saint Vincent University from July 1, 2015 to June 30, 2017.

Olga Milosevich (host)
Olga Milosevich studied music at the University of British Columbia, and then Broadcast Journalism at the British Columbia Institute of Technology. Her first job was working as a news reporter for a private radio station in Vancouver. In October 1983, she moved to Halifax for a job with the CBC. She spent the first 3 years with CBC TV working as a news anchor on the “Maritimes Tonight”. During the next 11 years she hosted 2 CBC Radio network shows, “Weekender” and “Music Alive”. For the last 15 years of her career, she worked as host and producer of the regional arts show “Connections”, and produced a daily arts report for “Mainstreet”. She also emceed 15 to 20 community events each year. She retired in July 2012. In November 2012, in recognition of her community service, she received the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal from the Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia. Olga is busy in retirement, sitting on several boards and committees, one of which is the MCPA. She is happy to give back to this venerable institution, which provided her daughter with excellent instruction in piano and flute.

Gregory Myra (pianist)
Halifax pianist Gregory Myra received his Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance in 2009 from Dalhousie University. Upon graduation he developed a keen passion for accompanying singers and accompanied voice students at Dalhousie for two years. He then accepted a fellowship at the University of Manitoba working with Dr. Laura Loewen and graduated with a Master of Music in Collaborative Piano in 2013. He is currently a collaborative pianist at the Fountain School of Performing Arts, accompanying the voice studio of Professor Marcia Swanston and is the repetiteur for Dal Opera. Locally, he has conducted and served as pianist for five seasons with the Halifax Summer Opera Festival, performed with Opera Nova Scotia and at the Music Room as part of the Fountain School of Music Chamber Series.

Lucas Hernandes Nascimento (tenor)
Lucas Hernandes Nascimento grew up in the south of Brazil surrounded by popular and traditional Southern American culture. He began his education at the Federal University of Paraná, taking a variety of courses within several artistic fields. Beginning with an applied study pursuit in guitar, Lucas took interest in various performance idioms. After a few performance opportunities, it was a clear decision that learning to sing was the next step towards something greater. In September of 2015 Lucas began to take that step under the tutelage of Professor Marcia Swanston, where the Fountain School of Performing Arts became a second home with intense study and practice. Lucas is thankful to his friends, peers, instructors and the FSPA staff members for fostering his inner voice, and preparing him to be a vessel for music.

Marcia Swanston (speaker)
Marcia Swanston, mezzo-soprano, has enjoyed a long and critically acclaimed career, lauded for her vocal beauty and technical ease, as well as her wide-ranging acting ability and dramatic musical interpretations. She has performed more than 50 operatic roles with opera companies across Canada and the U.S.

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