Linnea Good

GOOD, Linnea. b. Boston, Massachusetts, 24 March 1962. Born in Boston, Linnea Good was raised in Fredericton, New Brunswick. From an early age she was steeped in music. Her father, Frank Good (1938–2015), was well known in the provinces of eastern Canada as a hilarious and engaging performer in Gilbert and Sullivan operettas. At age 12, ‘at an age when other kids were leaving the church’, Good notes, she was invited to sing in the choir of the local Anglican church.  Good pondered a vocation as an Anglican priest during a period when her diocese was the last in Canada still opposing the ordination of women. She changed focus, and majored in French Literature at the University of New...

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