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Published: April 17, 2013 at 2:26PM EDT

Rita MacNeil speaks after receiving a lifetime achievement award at the East Coast Music Awards in Sydney N.S., Sunday Feb. 20, 2005. (Jacques Boissinot / THE CANADIAN PRESS)

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