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422<p class="wp-block-paragraph" style="font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400">Music Nova Scotia is a non-profit organization that has worked since 1989 with a mandate to encourage the creation, development, growth, and promotion of Nova Scotia’s music industry. Music Nova Scotia exists to grow and nurture the Nova Scotia music industry, retain our own natural resources, and promote investment, by:</p>
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592<p class="has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph">Music Nova Scotia acts on behalf of the Nova Scotia music industry regionally, nationally and internationally, both to government and other music industry associations. MNS lobbies for and passes the support onto the membership and the NS industry at large in a number of ways:</p>
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658<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The Black Music Matters report was created to strengthen the participation and<br>representation of African Nova Scotian and Black artists in Nova Scotia’s music<br>industry. When it was first developed, there was a limited connection between the<br>African Nova Scotian Music Association (ANSMA) and Music Nova Scotia (MNS). The<br>report helped identify what needed to change and where both organizations could<br>grow. It provided a foundation for new ways of working, guided by mentorship,<br>representation, education, collaboration, and accountability.</p>
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