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2 unusual facts about New Albion


Janice Giteck

Her 1992 recording collection Home (Revisited), released on New Albion, is dedicated to AIDS patients.

New Albion, New York

:Not to be confused with Albion, New York



see also

Albion, California

Albion was named in 1844, as a reference to when Sir Francis Drake landed on the northern California coast and called it New Albion.

Geraldine Walther

Geraldine Walther’s recordings include Paul Hindemith's Trauermusik and Der Schwanendreher with the San Francisco Symphony (both on London/Decca), Paul Chihara's Golden Slumbers with the San Francisco Chamber Singers (Albany), and Lou Harrison's Threnody (New Albion).

New Albion Brewing Company

In October 1976, along with business partners Suzy Stern and Jane Zimmerman, McAuliffe officially began the New Albion Brewing Company, the name given to the San Francisco Bay Area by sailor-explorer Sir Francis Drake, as well as a former San Francisco brewery of the same name.