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Wednesday, April 17, 2013

Rita MacNeil Passes Away

Nova Scotia born singer Rita MacNeil, who earned national and international acclaim, is dead at the age of 68. 

The announcement was made on her website that MacNeil died from complications after surgery. 

In 1987 she won her first Juno Award for Most Promising Female Vocalist. She was 42. 

“Flying on Your Own” followed in 1987 and in 1989, her Juno performance with Cape Breton’s Men of the Deeps of “Working Man”, brought the house down.