Anita Best C.M. is a teacher, broadcaster, and well-known singer from the Atlantic province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.[1]
With Genevieve Lehr, Best collected the songs for Come and I Will Sing You: A Newfoundland Songbook, spending years travelling around the province collecting songs from anyone who cared to sing.[2]
In 2015 the Newfoundland and Labrador Folk Arts Society awarded her their Lifetime Achievement Award.[3]
Best was appointed a Member of the Order of Canada in 2011. The citation read, in part, "As a singer, storyteller and archivist, she has been active in collecting and performing the songs and tales of her ancestors, ensuring this priceless cultural legacy is not lost to future generations."[4]
^"Anita Best". Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage. Retrieved 18 March 2017.
^Lehr, Genevieve; Best, Anita, eds. (2003). Come and I Will Sing You: A Newfoundland Songbook. University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division. Archived from the original on 2017-03-19. Retrieved 2017-03-19.
^Newfoundland and Labrador Folk Arts Society website.
^"Order of Canada: Anita Best". The Governor General of Canada. Retrieved 18 March 2017.
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