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Charlotte Diamond
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SATURDAY, May 1
1:00 PM to 2:090 PM
Charlotte Diamond lives with her family in Richmond, British Columbia. Born and raised in Vancouver, she graduated from the University of B.C., majoring in Zoology and French. She took further studies at Laval University, Quebec, in French Language and taught science, French and music at the junior-high school level for 12 years.
Charlotte has had a life-long interest in music. She sang with local folk groups, including performing intro sets for Pete Seeger and Tom Paxton. When her own children came along, she began singing and writing songs for them and also developed a preschool music program in her community. This led to performances for her children's parent-participation preschool, which mushroomed into requests for workshops, school concerts and family shows around Vancouver and throughout British Columbia.
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Taking her teachers' pension fund, Charlotte proceeded with the independent production and release of "10 Carrot Diamond", which won the Juno Award (the Canadian equivalent of the Grammy) in 1986. Her career turned professional overnight, and "10 Carrot Diamond" is a Certified Gold Record in Canada.
Charlotte presently has twelve recordings, a string of awards, including four Parents’ Choice Awards and three American Library Association Awards, (to mention a few), two nationally televised videos, and two music books. She now tours throughout Canada and the U.S.A., and has had three concert tours to Costa Rica, on the invitation of that country’s First Lady, UNICEF and the Canadian Embassy. Charlotte is trilingual and has three recordings in French, and one in Spanish (“Soy una Pizza”). She has recently been awarded the Queen’s Golden Jubilee Commemorative Medal “in recognition of her exemplary support of UNICEF”, as well as being named a “Paul Harris Fellow” by the Rotary Foundation of Rotary International, “in appreciation of significant assistance given to the furtherance of better understanding and friendly relations among peoples of the world.”
Her eleventh recording, “Charlotte Diamond’s World”, has become a favorite of children, families and teachers and received a nomination for the Juno Award for Best Canadian Children’s Recording. This CD also received a Parents’ Choice Honors Award and Our Choice Award 2001 from the Canadian Children’s Book Centre. Her music, as well as being fun and singable, inspires children to care for each other and to celebrate the diversity of our cultural mosaic. “Look Through the Kaleidoscope” and “Leave the World a Little Better” are examples of these themes.
Charlotte’s twelfth recording, “Nous sommes tous comme les fleurs” (Each of Us is a Flower) features her writings in French, and has received a nomination for the Juno Award for Best Canadian Children’s Recording 2003. “A World of Music with Charlotte Diamond”, Charlotte’s second music book, was just published in the fall of 2003.
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