{"id":911,"date":"2011-01-28T16:24:18","date_gmt":"2011-01-28T16:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simple-sidewalk.flywheelsites.com\/fr\/?p=911"},"modified":"2016-08-22T18:29:06","modified_gmt":"2016-08-22T18:29:06","slug":"the-montrealer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jubilationchoir.com\/fr\/the-montrealer\/","title":{"rendered":"The Montrealer"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Jubilation Choir is celebrating twenty-five years of glorious singing.
\nTrevor Payne – Founder, Director, recipient of the Order of Canada
\nand numerous other awards visits with The Montrealer
\nBy Peter Kerr<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\nBorn one of five children in Barbados, Trevor Payne\u2019s life journey brought him to Montreal where he grew up in Rosemount; became a successful rock \u2019n\u2019 roll band leader and musician; studied music at McGill; continued in linguistics at Universit\u00e9 de Laval; Black Music History at Howard University; and eventually founded the world famous Montreal Jubilation Choir. Here\u2019s the story of his talent being discovered and nurtured, his musical travels, and his faith.<\/p>\n

Looking out the window at his snow-covered back garden, Trevor notes; \u201cMy mother sent us a picture of her bundled up in a winter coat, hat, scarf and gloves. It frightened me. We had no concept of that kind of cold.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMy father was a strong-willed man and he insisted on us growing up anywhere but downtown; where most kids were lucky to make it to 12 without getting in trouble with the authorities.<\/p>\n

Trevor continues; \u201cWe moved to Rosemount \u2013 where we encountered a whole lot of other problems as the only black family in the neighbourhood. Kids calling us all kinds of name on the way to school \u2013 you name it. My Dad encountered criticism from his co-workers, who thought that he considered himself above them by choosing to live in Rosemount.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were far from rich \u2013 but not poor. My mother had several jobs. She cleaned toilets in Simpson\u2019s, and made sandwiches at the Windsor Station.Cafeteria” [FULL STORY]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Jubilation Choir is celebrating twenty-five years of glorious singing. Trevor Payne – Founder, Director, recipient of the Order of Canada and numerous other awards visits with The Montrealer By Peter Kerr Born one of five children in Barbados, Trevor Payne\u2019s life journey brought him to Montreal where he grew up in Rosemount; became a … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jubilationchoir.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911\/"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jubilationchoir.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jubilationchoir.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post\/"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jubilationchoir.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4\/"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jubilationchoir.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments\/?post=911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jubilationchoir.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911\/revisions\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jubilationchoir.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jubilationchoir.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jubilationchoir.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}