Just another Friday night at ECMAs
(The Nanny Ley Band - Flo Sampson, Keith Mullins, Amy Sampson, Gordie Sampson - performing at the Upstairs Friday night - photo: Murdock Smith)And on it goes… The...
CD Review: Slowcoaster – Acoustic + Live
Slowcoaster Acoustic + Live Company House Records (2009) Slowcoaster for me has always mainly been a live show band. I have and enjoy their earlier albums, but it’s...
Sydney’s streets offer more than ECMA visitors might remember
So I met a woman a few weeks ago. We get chatting and she asks what I do. “Oh, a journalist.” She thinks about it. “And you live in Sydney?” I nod. She thinks...
CD Review: Carleton Stone Drives the Big Wheel – CD Review
Carleton Stone Drives the Big Wheel Carleton Stone Drives the Big Wheel Independent (2009) Carleton Stone Drives the Big Wheel’s debut album sings like a manifesto....
Celebration of a culture, a voice and a language: Lauchie Gillis CD Release
The CD release party set for this Friday at the Lyceum will celebrate the life and accomplishments of Lauchie Gillis nearly thirty years after his passing. The afternoon...
CBC Cape Breton’s production of “A Christmas Carol” – Sunday, November 29th
What story has five staves, where you know the ending, the middle and the beginning, yet you still eagerly seek it out several times a year – usually all within...
Olenka and the Autumn Lovers with Timber Timbre and Steve Fifield at St Patrick’s Church – Sunday, October 25th
What better way to spend the last Sunday of beautiful October than enjoying tunes in the acoustic loveliness of St. Patrick’s Church in Sydney’s Northend. Olenka...
They Arrive with Canadian Songbook in Hand
This is a show that all Canadians and music lovers should not miss. It features Multi Juno-award winners Murray McLauchlan and Barney Bentall – writers of...
The Man in the Tan Leather Jacket, Al Tuck and Ron Leary at The Savoy (Foyer), Sunday, Oct 4th
Take yourself a little more than five years back. The hotel elevator is crammed with people frolicking to their next destination. Conversations mingle and hang in...
Do you know what a farmer looks like?
The documentary Food Inc. posed this question during its screening at the Cape Breton Film Series. Then this past weekend, Nova Scotia held Open Farm Day –...

