When a quartet of Halifax women began singing together a cappella in the name of social justice in 1982, there was little in the way of a “music industry” ...
The membership of Four the Moment would shift, with Barkley becoming the group’s manager and Andrea Currie stepping in, while Sparks left the group with Debby Jones joining prior to the recording of the debut album We’re Still Standing in 1988. When Jones went on to pursue her teaching career a short time later, actor/singer/dancer Anne-Marie Woods became the fourth piece of the puzzle for the lineup that played festivals and concert halls across Canada, the U.S.
“George’s poetry spurred me to begin writing in the same vein, and then people were coming to us to write songs. An incident would happen like Cole Harbour High, and we wrote Lullaby for Cole Harbour. Or Sylvia Hamilton asked us to write a song for a documentary, and Christene Browne flew us to Toronto to look at rushes for a National Film Board documentary, and out of that came Voices in the Dark and Arlina’s Prayer.
“Being so young, I was still working through who I was as an artist, I was probably trying to be a rapper and a singer,” says Woods, who would go on to establish herself as a playwright and actor locally and eventually in Toronto. She remembers the moment when everything clicked, while performing for a high school class in Kingston.
Decades later, the music remains powerful, and the message is still potent, at a time when many of the same issues are being confronted, in the face of racial profiling and in the name of Black Lives Matter.
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