NOVA SCOTIA COUNTRY MUSIC

HALL OF FAME NEWSLETTER

NSCMHF is located In the Hank Snow Country Music Centre Liverpool, Nova Scotia Mailing Address: 100 High Street Box 230, Bridgewater, NS B4V 1V9 President: Roger Bleasdale 902-275-4142 E-mail: info@nscmhf.ca See us on facebook Website: www.nscmhf.ca Webmaster: Jeff Vanderwal Editor: Bev Cheverie 902-410-4890 beverleycheverie@gmail.com

August 2018

Volume 12 - Issue 3

*Ceremony Dinner

Tickets* *2018 Inductees*

* Summer Notes* *CD Announcement*

*AGM*

*Inductee News and Reviews*

*NSCMHF Objectives*

*Membership* *Board of Directors*

*Sponsorship* *Editor’s Note*

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IN THIS ISSUE

Limited Tickets Available!

22nd Annual Induction Ceremony and Dinner

Best Western Glengarry Hotel Truro, Nova Scotia September 15, 2018.

Tickets: $42.00

For tickets contact Floyd Spicer 902-462-0694 or any board member

Doors open at 4:00 Dinner at 5:00

To make reservations for overnight accommodations contact:

The Best Western Glengarry, 150 Willow St. Truro, NS B2N4Z6

1-902-893-4311 www.bestwestern.com

Bill Guest Aaron C. Lewis Matt Balsor

2018 NSCMHF Inductees

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Join us for the 22nd Annual NSCMHF In-

duction Ceremony and Dinner on Sep-tember 15th cele-

brating 2018 Induc-tees Bill Guest,

Halifax, Aaron C. Lewis, Sydney, and

Matt Balsor, Hantsport.

Tickets: $42.00

For tickets contact Floyd Spicer

902-462-0694 or any board mem-

ber For overnight

accommodations in Truro, contact 1-902-893-4311

www.bestwestern.com

First Edition Showcase CD

The first Nova Scotia Country Music Hall of Fame CD includes music from 16 of our 91 current Inductees of the Nova Scotia Country Music Hall of Fame. With so many talented induc-tees, we are hopeful this will be an ongo-ing music project for years to come. Please support the work of the NSCMHF by pur-chasing your own copy of the CD. It will be available at the 22nd Annual NSCMHF Ceremony and Dinner on Sep-tember 15, 2018. The cost of the CD is $15.00

2018 ECMA winner Makayla Lynn (Country

Recording of the Year)will perform at the 22nd

Annual Induction Ceremony and Dinner.

NSCMHF President Roger Bleasdale enjoyed catching up with 2014 Inductee Robert Bouchard in April at a show in Truro hosted by Dianne O’Brien.

Popular Nova Scotia fid-dler, Andrew Kent of Cheverie, NS, went home a big winner at the 69th Annual Maritime Fiddle festival in July. Andrew won the Open Class, Best Waltz, Best Reel, and also took home the coveted Don Messer Memorial Award.

2003 NSCMHF Inductee Carl Elliott was in the audience and enjoyed listening to his sons ‘The Elliott Brothers’ perform in Truro in early April.

NSCMHF congratu-lates Kevin Davison of Kentville, NS for his win at the 2018 ECMA Awards for Video of the Year.

AGM Annual General

Meeting

The AGM will be held on Sunday, September

23rd at the Atlantic

Superstore in Tantallon from 2-5 pm. All mem-

bers and interested persons are invited to

attend.

NSCMHF Meetings

The NSCMHF Board of Directors meet every month. All NSCMHF members are welcomed and encouraged to attend our meetings. Please contact any of the Direc-tors to find out when and where our next meeting will take place.

The 2017-18 NSCMHF Board of Directors would like to thank all inductees, members and the public for ongoing support of the work the board continues to do to help promote and preserve interest in old time fiddling, country and bluegrass music. We en-courage nominations for induction into the Nova Scotia Country Music Hall of Fame. Nominations are open throughout the year until February. Thank you to all who put their name forward to serve on the Board of Di-rectors of NSCMHF.

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Inductees News and Reviews...

Ivan Hicks, born in Upper Sack-

ville, NB July 6, 1940, was in-

troduced to music by his father

and played his first dance at age

six. Ivan is a graduate of Mount

Allison (1964) and University of

New Brunswick (1976). He had

a 32 year teaching career in Salisbury, NB and married fellow teacher,

Vivian Webb, who also became his piano accompanist. Ivan Hicks

works to promote and preserve old-time fiddling globally. He teaches

the art of fiddling to all ages and is active in workshops and music

camps. Ivan has many recordings, books of original compositions and

performs at many concerts. Bands formed were Golden Valley Boys

1950’s, Marshwinds 1969-1989, Maritime Express 1979 – 2000’s, and

most recently, Sussex Avenue Fiddlers. Achievements include, Mari-

time Fiddle Champion 1979, 1980 and Canadian finalist, co-founder of

the Maritime Fiddlers Association 1981, New Brunswick Country

Music Hall of Fame President, Chairman of the Fiddlers of the World

in Halifax 1999, two Canadian tours 2000, 2002, ECMA award winner,

Canadian Grand Masters Fiddling Championship Lifetime Achieve-

ment Award 2007 Inductee of both the New Brunswick Country Music

1985 and North American Fiddlers Hall of Fame 1990, the Order of

New Brunswick 2014 and Honorary member of the NSCMHF 2004.

Judy McIsaac released her first solo album 'Looking Through My Eyes' in July 2017. The album was recorded at Marsh Brook Studios, Margaree, Cape Breton. Judy’s recording con-sists of 5 original songs. Four penned by Judy and one by her mother Ruth Zinck. Judy incorporated her original songs with 5 cover songs: 'Sea of

Heartbreak', 'You Ain't Goin Nowhere', 'Walking After Mid-night', 'Cowboy of Dreams' and 'Look What They Done to My Song Ma'. Judy's album receives airplay on radio stations around the province including 105.9 Seaside FM - Halifax, 99.3 QCCR - Queens Co., and CHFX FM Cheticamp. Judy McIsaac’s musical highlights included being a member of 'Sugartime', who were regular cast members of the popular 'Up Home Tonight' show which aired weekly on ATV/CTV. Judy also sang with her brother in the popular duo 'My Brother & Me' performing in and around the Halifax Regional Municipali-ty. Judy's versatile voice has lent itself to a variety of musical projects including recordings for radio and television.

Photo: L-R Fred Isenor, Wilf Carr, Murray Deal, Sheila New-man. Former member of the Nova Scotia Ramblers, Fred Isenor con-tinues to keep busy in the music scene. With his cousin Wilf Carr and band members Murray Deal and Sheila Newman (Inducted 2017) Fred plays bass with the group Son Rise. This group performs at local nursing homes and churches. Fred also plays music with Bill Huey (Inducted 2012) and his wife Susan Huey at various local shows. Wittenburg Baptist Coffeehouse is fortunate to have Fred organize the line up of musicians for their monthly shows. Fred also writes the music column for Rural Delivery Magazine. Fred Isenor is obviously not one to slow down!

* NSCMHF Inductees *

NSCMHF would like to feature you in an upcoming edition of the news-letter. Please forward a picture and/

or information (limit 200 words) about your past and/or present in-

volvement in country music. Looking forward to hearing from you very

soon! Send your submissions to:

Bev Cheverie

Editor, NSCMHF Newsletter beverleycheverie@gmail.com or mail to

Bev Cheverie, Editor NSCMHF News 100 High St. Box 230 Bridgewater, NS

B4V 1V9

Judy McIsaac: Inducted 2014

(Sugartime)

Fred Isenor: Inducted

2004 (Nova Scotia

Ramblers)

Ivan Hicks: Inducted 2004

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BOARD OF DIRECTORS 2017-2018 PRESIDENT Roger Bleasdale

VICE– PRESIDENT Ruth Manning

PAST PRESIDENTS Floyd Spicer /Carol Penney

SECRETARY Vina Moses

TREASURER Marilyn Robertson

DIRECTORS

Bill Corkum Bev Cheverie

Blain Henshaw Bruce Innes

ASSOCIATE DIRECTORS Region 1- Hants, Colchester & Cumberland Counties - Dianne O’Brien

Region 2- Pictou, Antigonish & Guysborough Counties - Don Haggart

Region 3– Cape Breton - vacant

Region 4- Halifax & Lunenburg Counties - Wendy Manning

Region 5– Queens, Shelburne, Yarmouth Counties - Jim MacCrae

Region 6- Kings, Annapolis & Digby Counties - vacant

MISSION STATEMENT THE NOVA SCOTIA COUNTRY MUSIC HALL

OF FAME

• To establish and maintain a permanent Nova Scotia Country Music Hall of Fame.

• To develop and promote public interest in old time fiddling, and country and bluegrass music in Nova Scotia.

• The preservation and the public display of artifacts and memorabilia of those inducted into the Nova Scotia Country Music Hall of Fame.

• To encourage nominations for induction into the Nova Scotia Country Music Hall in Fame

Editor`s Note

Hot off the Press!

(brings new mean-

ing to the words

this summer) I

hope you have

been taking safety

precautions with

the record heat

here in Nova Sco-

tia and across the

country. It is my

hope that many of

you will be in

Truro to cele-

brate our three

new inductees on

September 15th.

I will be ‘cooling

my heels’ in the

Northwest Terri-

tories but rest as-

sured, the newslet-

ter highlighting

our 22nd Annual

Induction Cere-

mony and Dinner

will be published

from there.

Yours in country music, Bev Cheverie

902-463-5393

1801 Hollis Street, Suite 1540 Ph.one: 902-492-1119 Halifax, Nova Scotia Fax: 902-492-9494 B3J 3N4 Toll Free: 1-888-878-0070

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For information on a variety of monthly shows

please go to: http://

www.jerrysnews.com

New or renewed members please contact Carol Penney by phone

@ 902-644-3135 or email rodger.penney@ns.sympatico.ca

or

750 Barss Corner Rd., RR#1 New Germany, N.S. B0R 1E0

The NSCMHF encourages businesses to become corpo-rate sponsors like Wendy Dunham Travel and Gordon Stirrett Wealth Management. We have a variety of spon-sorship programs available. For information contact Roger Bleasdale, Floyd Spicer, or Blain Henshaw.

OBJECTIVES OF THE NOVA SCOTIA COUNTRY MUSIC HALL OF FAME

• To recognize the contributions of Nova Scotians in the development of country music.

• To honor Nova Scotians and others who have make a positive contribution to country music through the development and the construction of a museum/archive facility for the storage and display of memorabilia, documentation of achieve-ments and recognition of accomplish-ments.