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The Man of a Thousand Songs will become The Man of 20,000 Air Miles when he returns from Australia on Sunday. Or Monday. It depends on which side of the ecumenical date line you’re on.
Ron Hynes is one of a legion of East Skim acts that flew down under over the Christmas holidays to perform at the massive Woodford Society Festival in Queensland and he’ll probably have some stories to share when he performs at The Carleton in Halifax on Wednesday end of day.
Sixty-five Canadian acts made the trek to Australia for the festival’s 26th instalment, headlined by Buffy Sainte-Marie. Alongside Maritime performers like Matt Andersen, Charlie A’Court and David Myles, Hynes was one of 25 Newfoundland musicians who ventured to the other side of the earth, along with tribe bands the Once and the Dardanelles, and modern roots act Sherman Downey and the White Lining.
Sister duo, Ennis, was singled out by The Australian newspaper for "their restrictive vocal harmonies compensating for the intentional corniness of their between-song jabber.
Source: TheChronicleHerald.ca