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East Coast Music Awards switch to virtual show as COVID-19 cases rise in Nova Scotia Poll Yes Natalie MacMaster and husband Donnell Leahy perform at the 2016 East Coast Music Awards Gala in Sydney, N.S., on Thursday, April 14, 2016.  THE CANADIAN PRESS/Andrew Vaughan Plans to hold the East Coast Music Awards in person have been quashed by organizers after a sudden rise of COVID-19 cases in Nova Scotia. This year’s ECMAs, which were set to take place on May 6 in Sydney, N.S., will now happen virtually, with further details to be announced in the coming days. The move comes as health officia...

by Steve Newton on April 20th, 2021 at 3:36 PM 1 of 5 2 of 5 When the time came to interview fiddle specialist Jocelyn Pettit, I started thinking back to my earliest memories of the instrument, and realized that I didn't have many. My older brother actually played one as a kid, but back then we called it a violin. The only time I really heard somebody play the heck out of a fiddle was when "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" came on the radio. There's a lot more to fiddle music than redneck country tunes, though. As Pettit explains on the line from her Squamish home, the world offers a mult...

  HALIFAX -- The moment the man responsible for Canada’s worst mass killing was shot and killed at a gas station in Enfield, N.S. on April 19, 2020, his rampage of terror ended – but a year of grief and questions began. Here are some of the key moments that have taken place since that day. Sunday, April 19, 2020 Nova Scotia RCMP hold its first news conference on the tragedy at its headquarters in Dartmouth Sunday evening. “Today is a devastating day for Nova Scotia and it will remain etched in the minds of many for years to come,” said commanding RCMP officer Lee Bergerman.

Article content Canada’s own Singing Cowbody, a world-class violinist, the band who opened for The Supremes and The Dave Clark Five and a band that toured Ontario for decades will be inducted into the Forest City London Music Hall of Fame. The inductees include country star Earl Heywood, Johnny Stevens and the Canadians, violinist Lara St. John and B.W. Pawley and Plum Loco. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser. Two bands, a producer, violinist and country singer to join London's music hall of fame Back to video Also being honored during London Musi...