When the Rollings Stones played the Halifax Commons in September, 2006, Mick Jagger impressed the crowd by using the term "Haligonian," and even pronouncing "Newfoundland" correctly. Forty years into his career, the rock superstar still had the professionalism to get every local concert detail exactly right. I have never seen an effort to sprinkle a touring show with meaningful local references to match what Old Crow Medicine Show frontman Ketch Secor displayed last night at the Nashville-based, alt-bluegrass band's Membertou show in Sydney. "It's intimidating to play the violin in a city that has a 60-foot-high statue of one," Secor told the...

04 June, 2013

A flight of pigeons has taken up residence inside Sydney's iconic Big Fiddle, with the usual unfortunate consequence for the soundboard of Whitney Pier artist Cyril Hearn's creation....

06 June, 2010