Activist Community: Faith Nolan CD Release Party for Jailhouse Blues
The Deets:
Friday February 21, 2014
9:00 pm
Dominion on Queen
500 Queen Street East
Toronto, ON
* Admission is $20 with CD or 4pack 4tickets + 4 CDs for $70 includes a CD
The Call Out:
Hey everyone, I want to introduce you to my friend and fellow Toronto singer, Faith Nolan.
In her words, “as you may know I have volunteered at two women’s prisons for the past sevenyears and now I have collected there lyrics about life in jail and I am launching this CD on Friday.”
Artistic Statement: “As you know, a disproportionate number of Native, Black and Asian women are confined in jail, due to systemic racism. The number of women starting federal prison sentences in Canada has grown by more than 50 per cent in the past decade. Most of these sisters are poor women, which is systemic classism.
Most are mothers with children. Prisons have revolving doors, and we are seeing a generational recreating of the same punishment to sisters who have been born into punishment.
Aboriginal women represent the fastest-growing offender population. Between 1998 and 2008, federally incarcerated Aboriginal women increased by 131%.
Aboriginal women make up approximately one-third of all provincially incarcerated female prisoners and 20% of the female population in the federal corrections system. In some prisons, Aboriginal women constitute an overwhelming 45–99% of the female population
It is time to heal our sisters, to heal with our sisters. As Angela Davis said, ‘When our most vulnerable rise, so then do we all.'”
This will be Faith Nolan’s 16th studio album. There will also be upcoming launches in Vancouver B.C. and New York, N.Y.
“A great 20 ’30’ mid-40’s style original bluestellin it like it is , The only chain a womon can stand is the chain of hand and hand . Orin Isaacs – musician extrodinaire- Production.”
Speaking of one of the songs off her new album called Detention Order Blues, “This song is about waiting for trial and getting longer sentences. Supermax jails [is where] many women prisoners are held while awaiting trial, It used to be a few years back that time served [that while awaiting trial], one day awaiting trial would be equal sometimes [to] three days off any sentence given. The change means that now one day awaiting trial is now equal to only one days of any sentence given. This means longer incarceration for women prisoners.”
For more information, please see Faith’s website here.
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