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Nostalgia, chicken nuggets and rock’n’roll: the morning indie gigs where preschoolers are welcome

It may have been Melissa Collins’s idea to get tickets to Ben Lee in concert but it’s her daughter, preschool-aged Joyce, who is the most excited to be here.

“She’s been listening to nothing else for three weeks,” Collins says in the line outside The Great Club, a cosy live music venue in the Sydney suburb of Marrickville. “She woke up this morning and was like, ‘no more sleeps until Ben Lee!’”

The pair are here bright and early on a Sunday morning for Small Fry Rock, a children’s concert with a difference. It’s Ben Lee on the bill today, but previous editions in the series

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