Carolyn Nielsen Library
The Carolyn Nielsen Library is housed at the Monsignor Boyd Family Centre, at 120 Regent St, Fredericton, NB E3B 3W6.
Canada’s Provincial Choral Organizations recently adopted shared Guidelines for the Responsible Management of Choral Libraries. Please read these guidelines before borrowing, and share them with choral leaders in your area.
The library may be visited by appointment, depending on the availability of staff. Please contact the NBCF office to arrange a visit, browse, and to pick up music.
Borrowing from the NBCF library is an NBCF member benefit. Member choirs may borrow up to 10 titles at a time. Individual members may borrow one copy of up to 10 titles at a time.
Click to view the library holdings as a Google Sheet
More on library policy here.
Canadian Choral Federation Libraries
ENTANDEM administers licenses for music performed at live concerts, shows and festivals on behalf of SOCAN.
If recorded music is also used as ambiance, in the background or to complement the live show, then a RE:SOUND music license is also required.
For choirs, this means that the concert programs and associated license fees that are submitted to SOCAN are used to distribute the royalties to the applicable composers/rights holders of music performed (national and international).
Choirs should ensure each season that they:
a) pay their performance license fees through Entadem
b) submit their rep list/concert programs for your performances by email to concertsetlist@entandemlicensing.com to ensure royalties reach the composers. Concert programs or set lists should include the title of the work, the composer, arranger and/or lyricist as applicable, and the approximate duration of the work.