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    Napoléon Crépault

    Napoléon Crépault. Organist, pianist, choirmaster, composer, (born 16 December 1848 in Kamouraska, QC; died 28 September 1906 in Quebec City, QC). Lauréat (AMQ) 1871.

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    Napoléon Legendre

    Napoléon Legendre. Writer, lawyer, civil servant, b Nicolet, Canada East (Quebec) 13? Feb 1841, d Quebec City 16 Dec 1907; D LITT (Laval) 1888. He was educated at Ste-Marie College in Montreal and in 1865 was called to the bar of Lower Canada.

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    Nasyr Abdul Al-Khabyyr

    Nasyr Abdul Al-Khabyyr, percussionist (born 5 September 1958 in Hull, QC). The son of jazz saxophonist Al-Hajj Sayyd Abdul Al-Khabyyr, Nasyr Abdul Al-Khabyyr was a member of the Dizzy Gillespie band. Both father and son appeared in the 1989 feature film A Night in Havana.

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    Natalie Kuzmich

    Natalie Olga Kuzmich (née Belz), educator, producer, adjudicator (born 22 May 1932 in Toronto, ON; died 7 January 2023 in Toronto). B MUS music education (Toronto) 1954, MA musicology (Toronto) 1968.

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    Natalie MacMaster

    Natalie MacMaster. Fiddler, step dancer, composer, producer, teacher, b Inverness County, NS, 13 Jun 1972; B Ed (Nova Scotia Teachers' College), hon doctorate (St. Thomas) 2003, hon D MUS (Niagara U, NY) 2006.

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    Natalie MacMaster (Profile)

    It may have seemed, with the headline-grabbing antics of Ashley MacIsaac, that gifted Cape Breton fiddlers had to have a dark side. But MacMaster is doing just fine as the embodiment of sweetness and light.This article was originally published in Maclean's Magazine on March 6, 2000

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    Nathalie Simard

    Nathalie Simard. Singer, b Île d'Orléans, near Quebec City, 7 Jul 1969. Sister of René Simard, Nathalie Simard was initially associated with the latter's career, and was noticed by the same producer, Guy Cloutier.

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    Nathan Berg

    Nathan Berg. Bass-baritone, born Spalding, Saskatchewan 11 Jul 1968; Opera Studies Diploma (Guildhall School of Music and Drama, England) 1993.

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    Nathan Fillion

    Nathan Christopher Fillion, actor, producer (born 27 March 1971 in Edmonton, AB). Roguishly handsome and devilishly charming, Nathan Fillion is perhaps best known for his starring role in the popular ABC mystery-comedy series Castle (2009–16), for which he won four People’s Choice Awards and four TV Guide Awards. Equal parts silly and serious, the versatile veteran actor has more than 100 screen credits. He also starred in the cult sci-fi series Firefly (2002–03) and its movie reboot, Serenity (2005), as well as numerous animated films and series and the ABC police drama The Rookie (2018–present).

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    Nathaniel Dett

    (Robert) Nathaniel Dett. Composer, educator, pianist, b Drummondville (now Niagara Falls), Ont, 11 Oct 1882, d Battle Creek, Mich, 2 Oct 1943; B MUS (Oberlin) 1908, honorary D MUS (Harvard) 1924, M MUS (Oberlin) 1926, M MUS (ESM, Rochester) 1932.

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    Nazaire LeVasseur

    (Louis) Nazaire (Zéphirin) LeVasseur. Historian, organist, violinist, bassist, composer, b Quebec City 6 Feb 1848, d there 8 Nov 1927. At five he began to study music with Antoine Dessane.

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    Neal Gripp

    Neal (Edward) Gripp. Violist, b Killam, Alberta, 8 Oct 1958; B MUS (University of Western Ontario) 1980, M MUS (Juilliard) 1983, DMA (ibid) 1985.

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    Ned Landry

    Frederick Lawrence "Ned" Landry, CM, fiddler, composer, singer (born 2 February 1921 in Saint John, NB; died 25 August 2018 in Saint John, NB).

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    Neil Bissoondath

    Neil Devindra Bissoondath, novelist, short-story writer, essayist (b at Arima, Trinidad and Tobago 19 Apr 1955). He attended St Mary's College in Port of Spain before emigrating to Canada in 1973, when he became a student at York University (BA 1977).

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    Neil Chotem

    Neil Chotem. Pianist, composer, arranger, conductor, teacher, b Saskatoon, of Russian parents, 9 Sep 1920; d Greenfield Park, Que, 21 Feb 2008. In Saskatoon Neil Chotem began his piano studies at the Palmer School of Music at five and performed for the first time in public.

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