Faith Nolan was born in 1957 in Halifax and then moved to Toronto’s Regent Park. She has since had a thriving decades long career as a Canadian social activist, folk, and blues musician. She is of African, Irish, and Mi’kmaq descent; her family is originally from a predominately Black community in Nova Scotia called Africville. She would name her first album Africville, which recorded the Afro-Scotian history through music.

She has a deep history of queer, women’s and anti-poverty activism, these are reflected in her music and her plethora of charity work and activism. She has been credited on the 2020 list of Toronto’s most inspiring women where she is described as having a “kind and weathered voice…you will hear the many miles travelled and the life experience that came with every step”.

Her album, The Jailhouse Blues, was created and distributed to women prisoners and their allies and is one of many of her charitable works with the incarcerated community. In January 2010, she received the African Nova Scotian Music Heritage Award. She now currently resides in Toronto where she continues to combine her social activism with her passion her music.