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WELCOME

Message from the Atlantic Canada Message de l’Agence de promotion A Message from the Honourable Opportunities Agency économique du Canada atlantique Stephen McNeil, M.L.A. Premier

Welcome to the 2019 Celtic Colours Bienvenue au Celtic Colours On behalf of the Province of Nova International Festival International Festival 2019 Scotia, I am delighted to welcome you to the 2019 Celtic Colours International Tourism is a vital part of the Atlantic Le tourisme est une composante Festival. Canadian economy. It contributes cruciale de l’économie du Canada $5.4 billion annually, supports 9,800 atlantique, générant 5,4 milliards Celtic Colours has earned a reputation regional businesses and generates de dollars annuellement, appuyant for bringing together some of the finest nearly 63,000 jobs. Authentic 9 800 entreprises régionales et musicians, performers, dancers and experiences improve the region’s créant près de 63 000 emplois. Les storytellers. Year after year, the festival competitiveness in tourism – the expériences authentiques rehaussent continues to attract thousands of visitors world’s fastest growing sector. la compétitivité de la région dans le from all over the world to spectacular tourisme, l’industrie qui croît le plus Cape Breton. The Celtic Colours International vite au monde. Festival continues to be a shining This unique celebration offers the example of the type of experience that Le Festival international Couleurs opportunity to learn more about attracts visitors to Atlantic Canada’s celtiques demeure un exemple Cape Breton’s Celtic history while shores. For nine days, visitors to Cape éloquent du type d’expérience qui creating new memories, building new 3 Breton Island are welcomed “home” attire les visiteurs sur les côtes du relationships, and enjoying some of the through an island-wide journey Canada atlantique. Pendant neuf finest music our province has to offer. that includes spectacular scenery, jours, les visiteurs de l’île du Cap I want to thank the festival organizers foot-stomping music, and soul- Breton sont reçus à la maison en and volunteers for their hard work year satisfying dinners hosted in secluded suivant un itinéraire parcourant after year. communities. l’île et comprenant des paysages spectaculaires, de la musique I hope you enjoy the Festival. ACOA is pleased to be a long-time entraînante et des repas réconfortants supporter of Celtic Colours, with its dans des collectivités isolées. Sincerely, role in building on Atlantic Canada’s competitive tourism advantages. As L’APECA est ravie d’appuyer depuis Honourable Stephen McNeil, M.L.A. the festival embarks on its 23rd season longtemps Couleurs celtiques, un Premier of phenomenal artistry, hospitality, festival qui joue un rôle dans la mise and promotion of the region’s vibrant à profit des avantages touristiques Celtic culture, we wish organizers and concurrentiels du Canada atlantique. artists continued success. Alors que le Festival entame sa 23e saison de qualité artistique, Sláinte mhath! d’hospitalité et de promotion extraordinaires de la dynamique culture celtique régionale, nous souhaitons aux organisateurs et aux artistes tout le succès possible.

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a glance at celtic colours 2019 with Artistic Director Dawn Beaton 10

Pjila’si! Fàilte! Bievenue! Welcome! distance and find great satisfaction in And I am thrilled to introduce you to our our work. We’ve all felt vulnerable and Artists in Residence this year: Beòlach and Here we are for the 23rd Celtic Colours intimidated at times, but so grateful for Breabach! Both bands are the embodiment International Festival! Our staff has friendly smiling faces that told us it would of lively youth, translations of their Gaelic worked diligently since last October to all be okay as we took to the stage, anxious band names, which shines through the prepare for 2019 and we’re grateful you’re to play that fiddle, make our first step, or music and culture they share on stage! here on our little Island to breathe in the try out that newly written song in front of Cape Breton air and enjoy our music, a large, eager, and sometimes judgmental Here is my final thought on this year’s language, and dance! crowd. We are proud to continue giving Festival… enjoy every moment! Kick up fundamental opportunities to artists of your feet and give them a rest when you For those keeping score, we’ve added a few all ages to participate in Celtic Colours, no can as these nine days can keep those additional shows and some new venues matter where they may be in their musical toes busy. Our community partners have which means even more opportunities careers. put together a bustling range of activities to take in our great artists. For 2019 my that could have you going from eight in focus has been on youth, in particular With the theme of lively youth in mind, the morning until well into the night, in lively youth! We are fortunate that our we’ll see how the transmission of culture every corner of our beautiful Island. You younger generation continues to grow down through generations is vital and the might just need to go to the Festival Club up surrounded by our rich culture. The importance mentors play in the forming to relax… or say Mo thogair (“oh what the artists on stage over the Festival’s nine of our current and next generation of heck”) and get on the dance floor anyway. days have been blessed with great teachers culture bearers. This will be explored in the Don’t be a stranger. Whether it’s your first and mentors, and in communities that concert “Playing it by Ear” at Greenwood visit or tenth, sit back, relax, introduce have fostered their love of culture. We, United Church. The theme also gives us yourself to your concert seat neighbor, as beneficiaries, have a responsibility to an opportunity to recognize and thank and join in on the chorus to fully immerse pass on that appreciation and encourage those organizations that routinely work yourself into our slice of the fun. Safe our youngsters. We can all recall those with a younger crowd. Féis an Eilien is just travels around Cape Breton, and back special folks who valued us, saw our worth, one of many organizations that prioritize home again. And remember, we all can recognized our potential, and led us to engaging youth through in-house lessons, encourage an up-and-coming musician the line but not over it. They showed us opportunities on stage, and offering and our youth. You just never know how that if we worked hard, we could go the meaningful employment opportunities. the favour might be returned!

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2019 Artists in Residence BEÒLACH BREABACH Contents Beòlach has Uniting the talents of established itself as Megan Henderson, one of Cape Breton’s James Lindsay, most exciting and Calum MacCrimmon, innovative traditional James Duncan FESTIVAL bands. Performing Mackenzie, and Ewan INFORMATION a lively mix of Cape Robertson, this five- Breton, Scottish piece intertwines and Irish tunes, the group features Mairi highland bagpipes, fiddle, guitar, bass, Festival Snapshot 10 Rankin, Wendy MacIsaac, Matt MacIsaac, flute, bouzouki, step dance, Gaelic and Artists in Residence 11 and Mac Morin. Beòlach presents original Scots song into a diverse sound that compositions as well as unique, dynamic has a distinctly captivating effect in Presenters & Media Program 12 arrangements of classic traditional tunes. performance. Their thrilling and unique The band has thrilled audiences at festivals brand of contemporary folk music has In the Schools Program 12 around the world with their energetic earned the group international recognition performances, witty presentation, and as one of the U.K.’s most dynamic and Community Cultural Experiences 13 their versatility as dancers and instructors. powerful bands. Acknowledging and 2019 festival Each of the players in Beòlach is an respecting the origins of both the music Festival Drive’ers 13 Snapshot experienced performer in their own right, they play and the roots of the band while having played for dances and concerts embracing the future with new ideas, The Frank “Big Sampie” Award 13 around Cape Breton Island and beyond energy and belief is a key attribute of the The John Allan Cameron Bursary 13 long before they got together as a group. band.

A MESSAGE FROM EXECUTIVE A MESSAGE FROM CHAIR OF CONCERTS & COMMUNITY DIRECTOR, MIKE MACSWEEN THE BOARD, BOB MACEACHERN CULTURAL EXPERIENCES

I hope you’re as We are pleased to th 11 excited about this welcome you to Friday 11 15 year’s Celtic Colours the 2019 version of th International the Celtic Colours Saturday 12 16 Festival as we are in International Sunday 13th 21 delivering it to you. Festival. Whether this is your first or Monday 14th 25 Please enjoy all the Festival has to offer, 21st Festival, we hope your experience will including our 52 concerts and 330 be memorable. Tuesday 15th 30 Community Cultural Experiences in venues and communities across the Island. Cape Breton Island truly comes alive Wednesday 16th 35 Celtic Colours is truly an Island-wide during these magical days in October in th celebration of our music and culture. The a way that is difficult to put into words. Thursday 17 41 best of Cape Breton is on display during We are appreciative of your enthusiasm th our nine days in October. and I know we will see more of that in Friday 18 47 the coming days. Once again, we have Saturday 19th 52 Sincere thanks to all of the community brought together some of the great Cape groups, businesses and governments that Breton musical ambassadors along with work collaboratively to make this happen those from across this beautiful country. each year. The Festival is certainly a labour Together they will collaborate with some of love for those who contribute to its of the most in-demand international success. But labour it is – a great deal of musical artists. FESTIVAL MAP 37 effort goes into making Celtic Colours the quality experience it has become. Thanks Off the stage we have a robust community REFERENCE to our Staff, Board of Directors, and many cultural events program that is second to volunteers – well over 2,000 – for your none. We couldn’t do any of this without contributions to our success. our volunteers… so thank you. Artist Index 56

Finally, thanks to you, the “Festival- Our Board, staff, volunteers, partners and Venue index 57 goer” – so many of whom return year after Cape Breton communities are pleased to Recurring Events 60-61 year for more. We are here celebrating 23 have you with us. years of Celtic Colours because of your commitment to us. We look forward to Are you ready? seeing you in October! Let’s get ‘er goin! FESTIVAL INFORMATION

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PRESENTERS AND MEDIA PROGRAM CELTIC COLOURS IN THE SCHOOLS performances to over 24,000 students PROGRAM PRESENTED BY across the Island in both rural and urban The Presenters and Media Program is CAPE BRETON UNIVERSITY communities. designed to showcase Cape Breton artists and the Celtic Colours International Celtic Colours International Festival The goal of the program is to expose Festival to targeted festival buyers, recognizes the importance of keeping young people to music that is rooted directors and select media. Since the our cultural traditions alive – especially in culture by way of artists who share Festival’s inception, national and among young people on the Island. These compositions and arrangements that are international music industry delegates cultural traditions build pride of place influenced by tradition. and media have gathered at Celtic Colours in our communities, and help to sustain for networking and access to concerts cultural activities including our Festival. There has been a significant transition and Cape Breton artists. Resulting media A great deal of time and effort is placed in the way children access cultural coverage has assisted in the promotion of on creating opportunities to present traditions. Having a program that the Festival, local artists, and Cape Breton traditional cultures, from here and brings music into the schools is vital Island. This development of industry elsewhere, to students in public schools to the recognition of our Island’s relationships has seen continued success across Cape Breton through this program. musical heritage. Exposure to roots and in facilitating the export of Cape Breton Cape Breton University, a long-time traditional music and dance styles is vital musicians to national and international Festival supporter and partner, is to sustaining an interest in culture. And it stages. This program is coordinated the presenting sponsor of the Celtic reaches children who may not otherwise by the Cape Breton Music Industry Colours in the Schools program in have the opportunity to experience the Cooperative. 2019. The program consists of a series arts in this, or any other meaningful way. of performance-based presentations, For more information please contact featuring artists from the Celtic Colours [email protected] lineup, delivered to students across Cape Breton Island throughout the school year. Since 2014, when the Schools Program began being offered free-of-charge to students, we have presented 98 school FESTIVAL INFORMATION

COMMUNITY CULTURAL EXPERIENCES TICKETS & INFORMATION If you’re looking for a way to enhance your Celtic Colours experience, or toll free 1-888-355-7744 become more immersed in the culture, consider making daily Cultural Experiences an essential part of your plans. local 902-567-3000 37 Nepean Street Sydney, NS B1P 6A7

The Learning Opportunities Have some dinner before your series will entertain and enlighten show, spend an afternoon you with a variety of Workshops, enjoying lunch, or grab some ADMINISTRATION OFFICE Presentations, Demonstrations and breakfast to start your travels. The Celtic Colours Festival Society, 850 Grand Lake Road, Suite 8, Sydney, ns b1p 5t9 Canada Lectures on music, dance, art, craft, and Community Meals offer an op- [email protected] community heritage. portunity to break bread togeth- toll free 1-877-285-2321 er and share a home-cooked meal. local 902-562-6700 At Participatory Events you are fax 902-539-9388 welcome as a spectator or as part Looking for Local Food? MISSION STATEMENT of the program, as Community Square This symbol indicates To promote, celebrate and develop Cape Breton’s living Celtic Dances, Sessions, Milling Frolics, and local products that have been grown culture and hospitality by producing an international festival during the fall colours that builds relationships across Kitchen Rackets give you the opportuni- and harvested in Nova Scotia. Cape Breton Island and beyond. ty to immerse yourself in the action. FUTURE FESTIVALS Farmers Markets give you an 2020 October 9-17 Cape Breton Island’s spectacular opportunity to meet and 2021 October 8-16 scenery is magical, so we’ve support local producers. Pick up some 2022 October 7-15 added a series of Outdoor Events. Guided locally-grown food, honey, and MEMBERS OF THE BOARD Walks, Hikes, and Boat Tours put you handmade goods. Bob MacEachern Chair in the fresh air. Bill Vokey Vice Chair John MacNeil Treasurer IN ASSOCIATION WITH Cultural Experiences EN ASSOCIATION AVEC Pauline Davis Secretary The Visual Art / Heritage Craft are hosted by commu- Paula Davis series offers a wide variety of fine nity groups, galleries, Glen Campbell art and heritage craft events. Exhibi- guilds, museums, and Graham Hudson tions, Demonstrations, and Workshops non-profit organizations Gerardette Brown 13 George Paul celebrate the creative spirit that thrives from all over Cape Bret- Napoléon Chiasson on Cape Breton Island. on Island, in association with Celtic Colours. Alyce MacLean Amanda Mombourquette

HONOURARY MEMBERS OF THE BOARD The Late Hon. Allan J. MacEachen FESTIVAL DRIVE’ERS THE JOHN ALLAN CAMERON BURSARY Sam MacPhee The Festival Volunteer Drive’ers is available to Cape Breton students FESTIVAL FOUNDERS Association is an incorporated not-for- of Colaisde Na Gàidhlig / The Gaelic Joella Foulds profit society. Formed in August 2004, College. Over 60 students have been Max MacDonald the Association’s membership is made up awarded more than $35,000 since its FESTIVAL STAFF of individuals who volunteer as Drivers creation in 2006. Mike MacSween Executive Director with the Celtic Colours International Dawn Beaton Artistic Director Jason Jardine Marketing Director Festival. Drivers further their volunteer The Association has also awarded Mora Purcell Office Manager time by selling performing artists’ and more than $11,000 in travel bursaries David Douglas Sales Manager Celtic Colours CDs at venues during the over the years to several individuals Dave Mahalik Communications Officer Festival. Proceeds from these sales are and groups, assisting them to attend Linda Murray Venue Liaison directed to the Association and sustain its dance competitions, performances, and Yvette Rogers Outreach Coordinator Shauna Walters Production Coordinator sponsorship programs. student exchange groups to Scotland. Rhoda MacCormick Volunteer Coordinator Kate Hartigan Box Office Supervisor THE FRANK SAMPSON “BIG SAMPIE” [email protected] Dale Fahey Box Office Staff AWARD grants recording studio time to Blair Brown & Lee Price Transportation Coordination a young, up-and-coming Celtic artist. Declan O’Doherty Chief Stage Manager Between 2006 and 2018 more than Dave Hillier Technical Director Shauna MacDonald Festival Club Manager $28,000 has been awarded. Kelly Peck Festival Club Stage Managers Vibe Creative Group Branding & Graphic Design Marcato Digital Solutions Database Design NovaStream Video and Live-Stream Production Causeway Digital Website Development Cape Breton Music Industry Cooperative Presenters and Media Program CONCERTS & INFORMATION

NIGHTLY SHOWS (Starting Friday October 11)

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serves as a spot to wind down and catch Colaisde Na Gàidhlig / up with friends at the end of the day. Gaelic College, St. Ann’s Performance is by invitation only and $20 • 11pm Nightly • depends upon artist availability on any 19 & over, photo ID required given night. The performance schedule 14 Half price with a ticket stub from is not posted in advance. a show the same day North Shore singer-songwriter Buddy One of the most popular features of MacDonald hosts the nightly Celtic Colours each year is the Festival festivities. Cabbioke by NSLC will make Club. Located at the Gaelic College in St. sure you arrive safe by providing a free Ann’s, the licensed Festival Club opens shuttle service that runs between as the evening concerts are closing, of- Baddeck area hotels and the Gaelic fering an opportunity for Festival artists College, supported in part by Victoria to showcase in a more informal setting, County. or to get a session in with friends and colleagues from near and far. It also Brought to you by Big Spruce Brewing.

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INTERACTIVE EXHIBIT SYDNEY WEAVERS GUILD

ROOM TOUR SHOW AND SALE Celtic Music Interpretive Centre, Judique Cape Breton Centre for Craft and Design, Sydney 9:00 am - 5:00 pm • $5 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm • free See page 60 for full description Weaving is a popular heritage craft COME PLAY SPOONS WITH US still alive on Cape Breton. Come check

La Place des arts Père Anselme out the display and sale of handwoven Chiasson, Chéticamp textiles. contact: Diane Campbell • 902-539-7491 10:00 am & 1:00 pm • $20 [email protected] See page 60 for full description hosted by Cape Breton Centre for Craft and Design THE CHIEFTAINS EXHIBIT: TEN645

AND Cape Breton Centre for Craft and MILLING FROLIC FRIENDS Design, Sydney Baile nan Gàidheal / The Chieftains Highland Village, Iona 10:00 am - 4:00 pm • free Ashley MacIsaac & Phamie Gow 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm • museum charges apply & Tim Edey See page 60 for full description See page 61 for full description Cape Breton University FIBRE FESTIVAL

Pipe Band Baddeck Volunteer Fire Department CLASSIC CAPE BRETON

Community Centre, Baddeck OATCAKES Centre 200, Sydney Brooks Haven Seniors’ Recreation 10:00 am - 5:00 pm • $2 7:30 pm • $70/60/50/40 Centre, Prime Brook See page 60 for full description 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm • $25 15 The 23rd Celtic Colours International EVELINE KLAMT EXHIBIT Learn how to make a classic Cape Festival kicks off at Centre 200 in Sydney with the world’s best-known Irish band, J. Franklin Wright Gallery at Port Breton staple, the oatcake, in this fun The Chieftains, and some friends they’ve Hawkesbury Civic Centre, workshop. The recipe is yours to keep. met here, there and everywhere along the Port Hawkesbury contact: Lisa Côté • 902-371-8948 [email protected] way. On their fourth visit to Cape Breton for 10:00 am - 8:00 pm • free Celtic Colours, they’ll be meeting up with hosted by Brooks Haven Seniors’ friends from years gone by—celebrated See page 60 for full description Recreation Centre Cape Breton fiddler Ashley MacIsaac and RURAL AND URBAN U.K. guitar and accordion sensation Tim COMMUNITY CEILIDH Inverness County Centre for AT THE CAUSEWAY Edey. Of course, the Chieftains will be the Arts, Inverness Port Hastings Museum, Port Hastings bringing some friends with them, as they usually do. Original Chieftains Paddy, Matt, 11:00 am - 5:00 pm • free 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm • donation and Kevin will be joined onstage by some Enjoy a casual afternoon of sharing familiar faces including Triona Marshall See page 61 for full description songs and tunes in the local community on harp, Alyth MacCormack on vocals, museum. Bring your instruments and dancers Cara Butler and Nathan Pilatzke, LUNCH CEILIDH join in the fun. and fiddler/dancer Jon Pilatzke. Tonight’s Celtic Music Interpretive contact: Karen Mudge • 902-625-3326 concert also offers an opportunity for Centre, Judique [email protected] Ashley MacIsaac to team up with long-time 11:30 am - 3:00 pm • free admission; hosted by Port Hastings Historical Society friend—award-winning Scottish piano menu pricing and harp player and composer—Phamie See page 61 for full description OPEN MIC SESSIONS Gow, more than a decade after performing Bras d’Or Yacht Club, Baddeck together on Broadway in the dance show Tapeire. This will be a great night to get 2:00 pm - 6:00 pm • donation together with your friends and join in See page 61 for full description the fun!

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SUPPER AT THE CAUSEWAY: FISHCAKES AND BEANS Port Hastings Fire Hall, Port Hastings

4:00 pm - 6:00 pm • $15 Enjoy home-made fishcakes and baked beans with bread and rolls, tea or coffee, and dessert. First come, first served. No reservations. contact: Margaret Ashford • 902-623-1780 [email protected] hosted by St. David’s UCW

SYDNEY ROAST BEEF DINNER WE’LL MEET IN IT’S NOT Royal Canadian Legion Branch 138, Ashby, Sydney INVERNESS JUST A FÉIS

4:30 pm - 6:30 pm • $20 Talisk Kinnon & Betty Lou Beaton Enjoy a roast beef dinner with mashed Dawn & Margie Beaton Arthur Cormack potatoes, vegetables, tea or coffee, and & Maggie Beaton Kenneth MacKenzie dessert. Sarah & Elizabeth Colin Watson contact: Donna McRury • 902-565-0660 & Mary Elizabeth MacInnis Gerard Beaton [email protected] hosted by Royal Canadian Legion Jenna Moynihan Na Gaisgich Òga Branch 138 Ashby & Màiri Chaimbeul Fuaran

16 GRAND DANCE IN GRAND ANSE St. Matthew’s United Church, Christmas Island Fire Hall, Royal Canadian Legion Branch 47, Inverness • 2:00 pm • $35 Christmas Island • 2:00 pm • $30 Grande Anse Meeting in Inverness today isn’t a Gaelic culture runs deep in Christmas 8:00 pm - 11:00 pm • $5; $12 per family coincidence. Being just about halfway Island (Eilean Na Nollaig), where the All ages are welcome at this Richmond between Chéticamp and Judique along traditions have been kept up and passed County family round and square dance. the Ceilidh Trail, what better place to on for generations. One of the key contact: Linda Buchanan meet up for an afternoon of music? The factors in maintaining the culture’s 902-345-2290 / 902-345-2610 folks in this show are here because they place of prominence here is Comunn [email protected] embody the theme of “lively youth”. Féis an Eilein. The organization has hosted by Royal Canadian Legion Branch 47 One would be hard-pressed to find a been presenting the annual Féis an Grand Anse group more fitting of this theme than Eilein since the early 1990s. A Féis Talisk. The young Scottish band’s lively (faysh) is a community-based festival SUPER FRIDAY ALL AGES playing will make it difficult to stay designed to promote the Gaelic language

SQUARE DANCE seated in the church pews. Mentorship and culture of an area. The first Féis Creignish Recreation Centre, Creignish also plays a hand in how our youth was held on the Isle of Barra in 1981, absorb the tradition and culture. That’s and Christmas Island is the first place 9:00 pm - 12:00 am adult $10; youth $5; under 12 free why Dawn and Margie Beaton are outside of Scotland to hold a Féis. Féis teaming up with former student Maggie an Eilein includes workshops in Gaelic A fun, all-ages family dance in Inverness Beaton for some local tunes. Families language and song, step dancing, fiddle County. Arrive early for a workshop at and friends prove powerful allies in and chanter. Commun Féis an Eilien 8:30 before the dance. Music from cultural transmission as we see with also presents Gaelic Activities Camps for Andrea Beaton and friends. mother Mary Elizabeth accompanying youth, concerts, milling frolics, céilidhs contact: Ian Cameron • 902-625-0128 daughters Sarah and Elizabeth, while and square dances. Today’s matinee [email protected] bandmates Jenna Moynihan and Màiri celebrates the significant contribution hosted by Creignish Recreation Centre Chaimbeul bond over fiddle and harp. Féis an Eilein has made over the years. Meet me in Inverness? Absolutely! hosted by Comunn Féis an Eilein hosted by St. Matthew’s United Church

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THIS IS FAMILY MATTERS: THE BOYS AND HOWIE DO IT AN EVENING WITH THEIR BALLADS Howie MacDonald THE BARRA Buddy MacDonald J.P. Cormier MACNEILS John Doyle Mac Morin Cyril MacPhee Barra MacNeils Hilda Chiasson Darrell Keigan Monica MacNeil Mary Beth Carty Bob McNeill Lisa MacNeil Allie Bennett Robert Durando Boularderie School, Aaron Lewis Extended MacNeil Clan Boularderie • 7:30 pm • $30 Strathspey Performing Arts Centre, Savoy Theatre, Cape Breton’s music isn’t just about 17 Mabou • 7:30 pm • $35/30 Glace Bay • 7:30 pm • $45/40/35 tunes and dancing. There are strong songwriting and storytelling traditions Cape Breton fiddler, piano-player It is pretty well-established that music here as well, going back to the earliest and composer Howie MacDonald tends to run in families, and there are Gaelic settlers. And while everybody has is considered by many to be a good few places where this is more evident a story to tell, it’s a rare gift to be able example of how we do things here than on Cape Breton, where names to spin those stories into song. The best on Cape Breton Island—with love like Rankin, Beaton, and MacMaster can make it look easy, taking their most of family, respect for tradition, and instantly bring music to mind, personal experiences and making you an irrepressible sense of humour. In sometimes spanning generations, feel them as your own—whether they’re many ways he embodies the values of other times encompassing siblings and singing an old song like it’s never been influential Cape Breton fiddler Winston cousins. In this evening’s concert, the sung before, or one of their own that’s “Scotty” Fitzgerald’s playing, from family name that matters is MacNeil, so familiar you want to sing along, even the tunes he played to the keys he as in the Barra MacNeils from Sydney if this is the first time you’ve heard it. played them in. Howie’s playing has Mines. Voted Fans’ Choice Entertainer Buddy MacDonald, Cyril MacPhee, and become a benchmark in its own right, of the Year at the 2019 East Coast Music Darrell Keigan all grew up on Cape Breton incorporating the influence of Winston Awards, the Barra MacNeils have been Island, where music was an important as well as legendary contemporaries like making music together for more than member of the family. Tonight they Jerry Holland and Buddy MacMaster, all 30 years, releasing 19 albums and welcome one of New Zealand’s most while being shaped by years of touring touring the world over. It started with prominent and gifted songwriters, with the Rankin Family and a lifetime Sheumas, Kyle, and Stewart playing Scottish-born Bob McNeill, and the of playing at dances and sessions all parish concerts, encouraged by their multi-talented guitar-virtuoso and over Cape Breton Island. Howie released mother Jean, a renowned step dancer. It songwriter extraordinaire, John Doyle. his twelfth album, Shades of Tartan, wasn’t too long before sister Lucy was This bunch will have you laughing, crying earlier this year and we’ve brought old enough to join her brothers on stage and singing along in no time. together some of the folks who played and then youngest siblings Ryan and hosted by on the album in this tribute to Howie Boyd followed after 10 years in their own Ross Ferry Fire Department MacDonald. And as a fella who usually group, Slàinte Mhath. This evening they and The Big Wave Festival has a few tricks up his sleeve, you can will gather together, along with spouses bet we may be in for some surprises in and children of their own, to share their Nearby Meal: St. Ann’s Songs and tonight’s show! music, steps, and a few stories as well. Supper Page 20 CONCERTS & CULTURAL EXPERIENCES

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CELTIC BREAKFAST Holy Trinity Anglican Church Hall, Port Hawkesbury

8:30 am - 11:30 am • $10 Enjoy a breakfast of eggs, ham, home fries, homemade beans, toast, juice, tea, and coffee. contact: Bob Burgess • 902-625-1247 [email protected] hosted by Holy Trinity Anglican Church

CAPE BRETON FARMERS’ PJILA’SI: CELTIC CABARET MARKET Cape Breton Farmers’ Market, Sydney A WAGMATCOOK Breabach 8:30 am - 2:00 pm • free WELCOME Troy MacGillivray & Andrea Beaton This market features a wide variety of Kinnaris Quintet local product offerings from fresh pro- & Sabra MacGillivray Melody & Derrick Cameron duce and eggs to prepared foods, craft Dwayne Côté & Tim Edey beer, breads, and pastries as well as the & Brian Doyle Còig works of artists and artisans. Ivan Flett Memorial Dancers hosted by Cape Breton Farmers’ Market Membertou Trade & Convention Wagmatcook Culture and Heritage STEP DANCE & SQUARE DANCE Center, Membertou • 7:30 pm • $45/40 Centre, Wagmatcook • 7:30 pm • $35 WORKSHOP If you love lively tunes, dance, Gaelic Whycocomagh Waterfront Centre, 18 Pjila’si means welcome in Mi’kmaq and song and a touch of musical genius, Whycocomagh tonight everyone is welcome to celebrate Celtic Cabaret in Membertou is where 9:30 am - 11:30 am • $10 music, culture, heritage and dance in you should be tonight. Weaving the community of Wagmatcook. This together highland bagpipes, fiddle, Hone your dancing skills. This work- evening’s concert will start with a guitar, bass, flute, bouzouki, step dance, shop, led by Stephanie MacDonald, traditional welcome ceremony by the and Gaelic and Scots song, Breabach teaches Cape Breton step dance followed Indian Bay Drummers. This welcome delivers a sound that is nothing short by a few square sets. will be extended to all visitors, of contact of captivating. Troy MacGillivray and : Burton MacIntyre course, but especially to the Ivan Flett Andrea Beaton have been playing 902-756-2769 / 902-631-2226 Memorial Dancers, a brothers-sister together forever, wowing audiences of [email protected] trio of dancers from Manitoba who will hosted by dancers and listeners throughout North Whycocomagh Waterfront Centre be performing on Cape Breton Island America, the U.K., and beyond. Although for the first time in this concert. They TURKEY LEG FUN RUN they continue to tour and play together, share their passion for dance, and their Ross Ferry Fire Hall, Boularderie it has become a rare treat to see them Métis culture, through the “Red River performing together on Cape Breton. 10:00 am • $15 ($12 before Oct 5th) Jig”, a dance that was established in the They will be joined by Troy’s sister, late 1700s and passed down through A fun 10K chip-timed run along a champion dancer Sabra MacGillivray. generations, carrying on the Métis quiet rural road. Since this is Troy’s only night at the tradition. Derrick and Melody Cameron contact: Eliot Frosst • 902-674-0936 Festival, we’re going to make the most of and Brian Doyle can certainly relate to [email protected] it by getting him together with Tim Edey this passing down of tradition as all hosted by Ross Ferry Volunteer Fire for some tunes as well. Tim will also be three Cape Breton musicians have been Department taking a turn playing with Dwayne Côté involved in mentorship programs of one in what is sure to be a meeting of musical kind or another for many years now. COME PLAY SPOONS WITH US masterminds. Cape Breton supergroup Scottish group Kinnaris Quintet rounds La Place des arts Père Anselme Còig completes the lineup. Don’t delay. out the lineup and shares in the welcome Chiasson, Cheticamp Get your tickets today. as they also make their Celtic Colours 10:00 am & 1:00 pm • $20 debut tonight. 19 & Over; Photo ID required. See page 60 for full description hosted by Nearby Meal: Roast Beef Dinner in Wagmatcook Culture and Heritage Centre Howie Centre Page 20 CONCERTS & CULTURAL EXPERIENCES CULTURAL EXPERIENCES

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SHARING STORIES: SQUASH SOUP LUNCHEON INTERACTIVE EXHIBIT TEA AND CONVERSATION Inverness County Centre ROOM TOUR Boisdale Fire Hall, Boisdale for the Arts, Inverness Celtic Music Interpretive Centre, Judique 10:00 am - 12:00 pm • donation 11:00 am • $15 11:00 am - 5:00 pm • $5 Who doesn’t love a good story? Come for Enjoy delicious homemade squash soup a cup of tea and a sharing of stories with and a biscuit served with tea or coffee, See page 60 for full description the Boisdale Historical society. and dessert. contact: Joe MacDonald • 902-871-2013 contact: Elizabeth Whalley RURAL AND URBAN

[email protected] 902-258-2533 • [email protected] Inverness County Centre for hosted by Boisdale Historical Society hosted by Inverness County Centre for the Arts, Inverness the Arts 11:00 am - 5:00 pm • free ISLE MADAME PUBLIC MARKET The LeNoir Forge Museum, MI’KMAQ CULTURAL EXPERIENCE See page 61 for full description Arichat Goat Island Trail, Eskasoni LUNCH CEILIDH 10:00 am - 1:00 pm • free 11:00 am - 2:00 pm • adults $10; Celtic Music Interpretive seniors & children under 12 $7 Join us at the market where you will find Centre, Judique On this self-guided tour you will meet fresh local produce, crafts, baked goods, 11:30 am - 3:00 pm works by local artisans, and much more. a variety of interpreters in villages set free admission; menu pricing along a scenic trail who will share contact: Joan Clannon • 902-226-1918 See page 61 for full description [email protected] various aspects of Mi’kmaq knowledge and history. hosted by Development Isle Madame KILT WALK TO UISGE BAN FALLS Association contact: Sandra MacDonald 902-322-2279 Baddeck Valley Community Center, Baddeck EXHIBIT: TEN645 [email protected]

hosted by Eskasoni Cultural Journeys 12:00 pm • $20 Cape Breton Centre for Craft 19 and Design, Sydney ÀROS NA MARA LUNCH, Transportation will be provided from 10:00 am - 4:00 pm • free LEARN & MARKET the hall to the falls trail where you’ll Iona Port, Iona walk a beautiful wooded trail to a wa- See page 60 for full description terfall. This is a fundraiser for the local 11:00 am - 2:00 pm • $10 hospital foundation. FIBRE FESTIVAL Come for offerings of soup, biscuits contact: Theresa Buchanan Baddeck Volunteer Fire Department and apple crisp for dessert ($10) while 902-295-0461 • [email protected] Community Centre, Baddeck learning about the Bras d’Or Lakes. hosted by Victoria County Memorial 10:00 am - 5:00 pm • $2 Browse the community market for local Hospital Charitable Foundation produce, baked goods, artisanal See page 60 for full description products, and more. FALL COLOURS CHAIRLIFT RIDES contact: Murdell MacNeil • 902-725-2348 Ski Ben Eoin, Ben Eoin EVELINE KLAMT EXHIBIT [email protected] J. Franklin Wright Gallery at Port 12:00 pm - 3:00 pm • adults $10; hosted by Central Cape Breton Community Hawkesbury Civic Centre, youth $5 Ventures Port Hawkesbury Take the chairlift and enjoy entertainment and family friendly 10:00 am - 8:00 pm • free UNDERGROUND TOUR OF A COALMINE activities, learn about the Bras d’Or Lake See page 60 for full description Cape Breton Miners’ Museum, Biosphere, then take a lovely, gentle Glace Bay hike down Groovy Goose to finish off the STORYTELLING TOUR afternoon. Rain date Oct 13th. 11:00 am - 4:00 pm Baile nan Gàidheal / contact: Rob Carmichael • 902-828-2222 Highland Village, Iona adults $16; youth $13 [email protected] 10:30 am - 12:30 pm • $25 Call to book a 90-minute tour. You will hosted by Ski Ben Eoin reservations required be guided by a former coal miner into the mine where you’ll hear stories See page 61 for full description of his life. contact: Mary Pat Mombourquette 902-849-4522 • [email protected] hosted by Cape Breton Miners’ Museum CULTURAL EXPERIENCES

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FIBRE FESTIVAL WORKSHOP: ST. ANN’S SONGS FAMILY SQUARE DANCE

MI’KMAQ BASKET WEAVING & SUPPER Grandona Royal Canadian Legion Baddeck Volunteer Fire Department Englishtown Community Hall, Branch 124, Iona Community Centre, Baddeck Englishtown 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm • adults $8; 12:30 pm - 4:30 pm 2:30 pm - 6:00 pm • $30 ages 18 & under free $50 includes materials (must be accompanied by guardian) This two-part event features songs and Learn how to weave a small basket that stories from local artists (2:30-4:00), Come on out for an evening of culture, you get to keep. Pre-registration followed by supper (4:00-6:00) made by kinship and fun for all ages. There will recommended. community volunteers with local recipes be coaches on hand to help guide you contact: Dianne Quimby • 902-945-2226 and ingredients. through our local set. [email protected] contact: Jenni MacLean • 902-537-2908 contact: Baile nan Gàidheal / Highland hosted by South Haven Weavers Guild [email protected] Village • 902-725-2272 and Baddeck Quilt Guild hosted by Englishtown Community Hall hosted by Royal Canadian Legion Branch 124 Grandona CANNING WORKSHOP: BEHIND THE MUSIC WITH MUSTARD PICKLES STAN CHAPMAN WEST MABOU FAMILY Brooks Haven Seniors’ Recreation Celtic Music Interpretive Centre, Judique SQUARE DANCE Centre, Prime Brook West Mabou Hall, West Mabou 3:00 pm • donation 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm • $25 9:00 pm - 12:00 am Adults $8; Stan, an accomplished fiddle player who free for 12 & under Reverend Laurie’s famous family recipe has taught Natalie MacMaster, Ashley for mustard pickles will be shared, MacIsaac, Wendy MacIsaac and others, West Mabou Square Dance is a along with a hands-on demo of proper will discuss the repertoire of Cape Breton well-established traditional square canning techniques and how to prepare tunes, where they came from, and how dance that features some of the Island’s the recipe. they’re chosen by fiddlers. finest musicians. All ages are welcome. contact: Derrick & Melody Cameron contact: Lisa Côté • 902-371-8948 contact: Celtic Music Interpretive Centre 20 [email protected] 902-787-2708 • [email protected] [email protected] hosted by West Mabou Hall hosted by Brooks Haven Seniors’ hosted by Celtic Music Interpretive Centre Recreation Centre ROAST BEEF DINNER DOORS OPEN FOR CHURCHES IN HOWIE CENTRE

St. Margaret of Scotland Catholic East Bay Legion, Howie Centre Church, Broad Cove 4:00 pm - 7:00 pm • $15 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm • free Home-style roast beef dinner with See page 60 for full description potatoes, carrots, turnips and gravy, complete with dessert and tea or coffee. ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND Full bar service will be available during WELCOMES dinner. Shannon Studio, Port Hawkesbury Civic contact: Jim MacDonald Centre, Port Hawkesbury 902-539-3922 • [email protected] hosted by Royal Canadian Legion Branch 151 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm • $10 A musical and comedy theatrical revue MABOU GAELIC SONG CIRCLE of a cultural coming of age, reflections An Drochaid: Mabou Gaelic from working the tourist bureau & Historical Society, Mabou Watch a different in the ‘90s. 7:00 pm • $10 concert each night contact: Adam Cooke • 902-625-8863 [email protected] This Gaelic song circle, held in a small of the Festival. hosted by Strait Area Theatre Society community museum, features local Gaelic singers and guests who will share Tune in at OPEN MIC SESSIONS songs. It will be like you are in their Bras d’Or Yacht Club, Baddeck living room. celtic-colours.com contact: Duncan Campbell • 902-945-2652 2:00 pm - 6:00 pm • donation [email protected] See page 61 for full description hosted by Comunn Féis Mhàbu Brought to you by: CULTURAL EXPERIENCES CONCERTS

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THE YOUNG DANCING UP STEP INTO HEROES: A SUÊTE THE PAST NA GAISGICH ÒGA La Swing du Suête Megan Henderson Andrea Beaton Ian MacDougall & Ewan Robertson & Véronique Plasse & Hilda Chiasson Rosie MacKenzie Brian Doyle & Ben VanZutphen & Patrick Gillis & Dominique Dodge & Keigan MacLennan Danelle & Céline Doucet Jenna Moynihan Cape Breton Ivan Flett Memorial Dancers & Màiri Chaimbeul Hailee LeFort University Pipe Band Fortress of Louisbourg Chapel, & Ward MacDonald Elizabeth MacInnis Louisbourg • 6:00 pm • $110 & Campbell Hart & Jesse Périard 21 Na Gaisgich Òga Melanie MacDonald Take a step back in time this evening Amanda MacDonald as one of the Festival’s most popular Fuaran concerts invites you to Step into the Place des arts Père-Anselme-Chiasson, Past at the Fortress of Louisbourg. Colaisde na Gàidhlig / The Gaelic North America’s largest historical Chéticamp • 2:00 pm • $30/25 College, St. Ann’s • 2:00 pm • $35 reconstruction, the Fortress offers a glimpse at life in colonial Cape Breton Na Gaisgich Òga is a Gaelic mentorship It’s no secret that some of Cape Breton’s best dancers come from the culturally- around the 1740s. The evening begins program for youth, run by Colaisde with an authentic, traditional 18th na Gàidhlig that gives students the rich and vibrant Acadian community of Chéticamp. This is where the famous century meal, served in period costume opportunity to improve their language and character by candle-light. An skills, participate in Gaelic culture, meet southeast winds, known as les suêtes, blow strong onshore, and where local after-dinner walk, guided by the glow local Gaelic speakers, and connect with of lanterns through the cobbled streets the local Gaelic communities. Fuaran dance troupe La Swing du Suête has kept their dance tradition strong for more than of the reconstructed town, takes you to is an initiative established by Fèisean the lovely chapel in the King’s Bastion. nan Gàidheal in Scotland to encourage 20 years. Paul Gallant has been vital to the troupe’s formation, with past director The musical entertainment for this a new generation of Gaelic speakers and evening features three duos—whose singers to engage in the research and Nicole LeBlanc taking a strong leadership role over the years and long-time dancers members come from Cape Breton Island, collection of Gaelic songs in their local Scotland, and the U.S.—playing in various area. This afternoon’s concert brings Christine Doucet and Sylvie Aucoin leading the charge today. They will welcome fellow combinations of harp, fiddle and guitar. these young heroes from Cape Breton There also happens to be a couple of and Scotland together alongside other dancers from down the coast and the Canadian Prairies to show their steps. lovely singers in the mix as well, so we young learners, their mentors and more can expect be treated to a song or two experienced, established players in the With lively music to boot, this is one charged up show! in Gaelic and English to round out this tradition. evening’s unique experience. hosted by hosted by Le Conseil des arts de Chéticamp hosted by Fortress Louisbourg Association Colaisde na Gàidhlig / The Gaelic College Nearby Meals: Acadian Culinary Nearby Meal: St. Ann’s Experience and Dine with the Thanksgiving Dinner Page 24 Mi-Carêmes Page 24 CONCERTS

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RAISING THE ROOF ASHLEY PLAYS THE CAPE BRETON Brenda Stubbert FAVOURITES FIDDLERS & Doug MacPhee Ashley MacIsaac Còig Arthur Cormack & Phamie Gow Cape Breton Fiddlers’ Association & Mary Jane Lamond Maybelle Chisholm McQueen Whycocomagh Education Centre, Talisk Rodney MacDonald Whycocomagh • 7:30 pm • $30/25 Boisdale Volunteer Fire Department, & Glenn Graham Cape Breton Island’s rich fiddling Boisdale • 7:30 pm • $30 & Mac Morin Joe MacMaster tradition will be front and centre this evening in Whycocomagh as the Cape Expect a lively night of tunes and Kolten MacDonell Gaelic song—just the way they like Breton Fiddlers’ Association shares the 22 it here in Boisdale, where traditional Chris Babineau stage with one of the hottest trad bands music, language and dancing have on the scene today, Còig, featuring past played a central role since Scottish SAERC, Port Hawkesbury Fiddlers’ Association members Chrissy immigrants settled in the early 1800s. 7:30 pm • $50/45 Crowley and Rachel Davis. Made up of The community still gets together up-and-coming as well as professional regularly to celebrate their culture, and Ashley MacIsaac rose to national and well-known players and composers, dances and concerts are held year- acclaim in the 1990s, thanks to a deep the Fiddlers’ Association has been round at the Boisdale Fire Hall. Tonight, foundation in traditional Cape Breton dedicated to preserving and promoting Cape Breton composer and dance fiddling, piano, and dance, and appetite traditional Cape Breton fiddle music, all player Brenda Stubbert teams up with for experimentation. In the process, the while nurturing and encouraging a stalwart of traditional Cape Breton he became one of the world’s favourite younger players, since the early 1970s. piano playing, Doug MacPhee. Talk Cape Breton fiddlers. Tonight Ashley Vision, leadership, and plain old “doing about Cape Breton traditional pedigree! will share some of his favourites. It’s the work” have meant generations of These two have a direct connection to no secret that he loves playing with musicians have benefitted from the an era that more or less defined Cape legendary piano-player Maybelle Association’s existence. For more than Breton fiddling—Brenda through her Chisholm McQueen. Joe MacMaster is forty years, the Association has been the father Robert and the Northside Irish an impressive young fiddler, piper and grassroots of the fiddle tradition and the style and Doug through his mother composer who Ashley has called “the keepers of the Island’s fiddle repertoire, Margaret who played piano with many newest powerhouse of Route 19”, and presenting an annual Festival of Cape of the greats. Scottish trio Talisk will fiddlers Rodney MacDonald and Glenn Breton fiddling, hosting workshops, and surely be up to the task of keeping the Graham are Route 19 contemporaries. providing opportunities for its members energy level high with their incendiary While a powerhouse on piano himself, to learn new tunes and techniques. They mix of concertina, fiddle and guitar. And Ashley can’t play fiddle and piano at have been at the forefront of a resurgence the area’s rich Gaelic heritage will be the same time, so he’ll be joined by in Cape Breton fiddling that has seen the echoing once again in the Boisdale hills Mac Morin, Chris Babineau, Phamie tradition and style flourish at home and as one of the finest Gaelic singers of his Gow and Kolten MacDonell on various around the world. generation, Scotland’s Arthur Cormack, instruments. It’ll be a “Fine, thank you hosted by gets together with Cape Breton’s Mary very much” kind of night! Whycocomagh Volunteer Fire Department Jane Lamond. Nearby Meal: Richmond Roast Pork Nearby Meal: Whycocomagh hosted by Dinner Page 25 Turkey Dinner Page 24 Boisdale Volunteer Fire Department CONCERTS CONCERTS & CULTURAL EXPERIENCES

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HUNGRYMAN’S BREAKFAST BOTANICAL ALCHEMY D’Escousse Civic Improvement Hall, IN THE PARK D’Escousse Ingonish Beach Campground, Ingonish

8:00 am - 11:00 am • adults $8; 10:00 am - 1:00 pm • $57.50 youth 10 & under $4 Learn about the ecology of the Acadian You’ll have plenty to choose from at this Forest and how to craft beautiful textile community breakfast with sausages, dyes from native species. ham, bologna, beans, pancakes, eggs, contact: Mel Sweetnam corncake, tea, coffee, juices, and fruit [email protected] cocktail available. hosted by Cape Breton Highlands contact: Ronnie Leblanc • 902-227-8069 National Park [email protected] hosted by D’Escousse Civic Improvement CRAIC’N CABARET FIBRE FESTIVAL Society Baddeck Volunteer Fire Department J.P. Cormier & Tim Edey Community Centre, Baddeck COME PLAY SPOONS WITH US Ùr: The Future of our Past 10:00 am - 5:00 pm • $2 La Place des arts Père Anselme Kinnaris Quintet Chiasson, Chéticamp See page 60 for full description Villages 10:00 am & 1:00 pm • $20 EVELINE KLAMT EXHIBIT Membertou Trade and Convention See page 60 for full description J. Franklin Wright Gallery, Centre, Membertou • 7:30 pm • $45/40 Port Hawkesbury CELTIC COLOURS This is the Thanksgiving Day long PUMPKIN CARVING 10:00 am - 8:00 pm • free weekend in Canada, so why not take La Rigouèche, Chéticamp Visitor See page 60 for full description advantage of the extra day off by getting Centre, Chéticamp together with friends for some drinks 23 10:00 am - 12:00 pm • free with park pass CELTIC CHURCH SERVICE and tunes at the Craic’n Cabaret? You St. Ann’s Bay United Church, can bet there will be plenty of the latter Drop in any time between 10 am and Indian Brook with J.P. Cormier and Tim Edey. These noon for this fun, family-friendly event. 11:00 am • free two multi-instrumentalists possess the Pumpkins and carving tools will be stage with their mastery over whichever provided. This Celtic church service will incorpo- instrument they take to hand, delighting contact: Visitor Services • 902-224-2306 rate Gaelic singing, Gaelic scriptures, audiences and each other in the process. [email protected] Celtic hymns, and fiddle playing. There J.P. and Tim will be joined by a group hosted by Cape Breton Highlands will be an explanation of precenting of that has become a staple at Celtic National Park the Psalms, a Scottish tradition. Colours in recent years, Ùr: The Future contact: Elizabeth Ryan • 902-929-2211 of Our Past. This hand-picked group of CELTIC COLOURS [email protected] students from the Royal Conservatoire PUMPKIN CARVING hosted by St. Ann’s Bay United Church of Scotland showcases some of the Broad Cove Campground, Ingonish exceptional talent in that program. One MABOU FARMERS’ MARKET 10:00 am - 12:00 pm • free with park pass of Ùr’s award-winning tutors, guitarist Mabou Arena, Mabou Jenn Butterworth, will be playing with Drop in any time between 10 am and 11:00 am - 2:00 pm • free her new group, Kinnaris Quintet at noon for this fun, family-friendly event. tonight’s Cabaret, which also introduces Pumpkins and carving tools will be This large market boasts the best of rural the latest incarnation of erstwhile pop- provided. produce, seafood, meats, honey, artisan rockers Mardeen, four Cape Bretoners contact: Visitor Services • 902-224-2306 products, baked goods, and more. living on the mainland who have [email protected] hosted by Mabou Farmers’ Market rediscovered their folkier traditional hosted by Cape Breton Highlands roots as Villages. They may live away National Park DOORS OPEN FOR CHURCHES now, but they never miss a chance to get Free Admission home for Thanksgiving Dinner. Don’t St. Joseph’s Catholic, River Denys miss this chance to join the party. 11:00 am - 3:00 pm

19 & Over; Photo ID required. Église Saint Joseph, Petit-de-Grat 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm

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INTERACTIVE EXHIBIT CELTIC JAM SESSION KIRKIN’ O’ THE TARTANS ROOM TOUR Whycocomagh Waterfront Centre, Farquarson Memorial Church, Celtic Music Interpretive Centre, Judique Whycocomagh Middle River

11:00 am - 5:00 pm • $5 1:30 pm •$10 3:00 pm • donation See page 60 for full description Shelly Campbell will lead this tunes ses- All denominations welcome to this sion. Bring your instruments and join in. Gaelic Church Service where the Scottish contact RURAL AND URBAN : Burton MacIntyre • 902-756-2769 clan tartans are blessed. Inverness County Centre for [email protected] contact: Gordon MacIver • 902-295-0250 the Arts, Inverness hosted by Whycocomagh Waterfront Centre [email protected] hosted by Farquarson Memorial Church 11:00 am - 5:00 pm • free ONE HUNDRED

See page 61 for full description THOUSAND WELCOMES ST. ANN’S THANKSGIVING DINNER Port Hawkesbury Civic Centre, Port Colaisde na Gàidhlig / DINE WITH THE MI-CARÊMES Hawkesbury The Gaelic College, St. Ann’s

Centre de la Mi-Carême, 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm • $10 4:30 pm - 6:30 pm • $15 Grand Étang Harbour A musical and comedy theatrical revue of Enjoy a home-cooked roast turkey 11:30 am - 1:30 pm • $25 a cultural coming of age, reflections from dinner with mashed potatoes, seasonal Enjoy locally-sourced, home-made working the tourist bureau in the ‘90s. vegetables, stuffing, and gravy. Dessert fishcakes, beans, bread pudding contact: Adam Cooke • 902-625-8863 and beverage are included. with a steamed cranberry sauce, [email protected] Cafeteria-style seating. and tea or coffee. hosted by Strait Area Theatre Society contact: Gail Montgomery • 902-295-3411 contact: 902-224-1016 • [email protected] X 226 • [email protected] hosted by Société Mi-Carême STORYTELLING TOUR hosted by Colaisde na Gàidhlig / The Gaelic

Baile nan Gàidheal / College Highland Village, Iona 24 ACADIAN KITCHEN PARTY Seafood Stop, Chéticamp 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm • $25; ACADIAN CULINARY EXPERIENCE 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm • menu pricing reservations required La Place des arts Père Anselme See page 60 for full description See page 61 for full description Chiasson, Chéticamp

5:00 pm • $35 ANNUAL MABOU SUNDAY CEILIDH THANKSGIVING DINNER Celtic Music Interpretive Centre, Enjoy a locally-sourced three course St. Mary’s Parish Hall, Mabou Judique meal with traditional meat fricot, salad, homemade meat pie, wild blueberry 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm • $18 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm • $8 cake with sauce, and tea or coffee. Don’t miss this very popular community Enjoy an authentic Ceilidh featuring live contact: Le Conseils des Arts dinner of roast turkey with all the music by Kenneth MacKenzie and friends. 902-224-1876 trimmings. First come first served. Join in a square set with some lively locals hosted by Le Conseil des arts de Chéticamp No reservations. and visitors, have a bite to eat and a drink, hosted by Mabou Hall (St. Mary’s Parish) or just sit back and enjoy the music. WHYCOCOMAGH TURKEY DINNER contact: Celtic Music Interpretive Centre Whycocomagh Waterfront Centre, 902-787-2708 • [email protected] FIBRE FESTIVAL WORKSHOP: Whycocomagh SOCK BLANK DYEING CLASS hosted by Celtic Music Interpretive Centre 5:00 pm • $20 Baddeck Volunteer Fire Department Community Centre, Baddeck OPEN MIC SESSIONS Roast turkey dinner with all the Bras d’Or Yacht Club, Baddeck trimmings, dessert, and tea or coffee. 12:30 pm - 4:30 pm Reservations recommended. This dinner $50 includes materials 2:00 pm - 6:00 pm • donation takes places near The Cape Breton Participants will choose a sock blank that See page 61 for full description Fiddlers concert. is ready to dye and will be guided through contact: Craig or Terry Gillis • 902-295-0522 the process. You can take the completed hosted by Whycocomagh Waterfront Centre sock blank home in a bag to dry later. contact: Dianne Quimby • 902-945-2226 [email protected] hosted by South Haven Weavers Guild and Baddeck Quilt Guild CULTURAL EXPERIENCES CULTURAL EXPERIENCES & CONCERTS

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RICHMOND ROAST PORK DINNER Riverdale Community Centre, Lower River Inhabitants

5:00 pm • $20 Enjoy roast pork stuffed with a savory dressing in a spiced apple sauce served with roasted potato, steamed vegetables, homemade dessert, and tea or coffee. contact: Ken Reynolds • 902-631-4871 [email protected] hosted by Riverdale Community Centre

GLENCOE FAMILY SQUARE DANCE UNAMA’KI FIDDLE FRENZY Glencoe Mills Hall, Glencoe Mills MAWIO’MI: The Fretless 9:00 pm - 12:00 am • $10 Brenda Stubbert Come to this long-standing, family A CAPE BRETON & Patricia Chafe friendly square dance in the heart of the GATHERING hills of Inverness County. All ages & Blanche Sophocleous welcome. Miller | MacDonald | Cormier Mairi Rankin & Eric Wright contact: Elizabeth Beaton • 902-615-2647 Ivan Flett Memorial Dancers Wendy MacIsaac hosted by Glencoe Mills Hall Mooney Francis & Allan Dewar Stoney Bear & Patrick Gillis Emma Stevens Stan Chapman Sarah Denny Cultural Centre, 25 Judique Community Centre, Eskasoni • 2:00 pm • $30 Judique • 7:30 pm • $35 Cape Breton is known by the Mi’kmaw as It’s no wonder fiddle is celebrated in Unama’ki and today we get together for Judique. It takes a front seat at the a mawio’mi or gathering. The Mi’kmaq Celtic Music Interpretive Centre every culture has close ties to Cape Breton Sunday afternoon, is always on tap Gaelic and Acadian traditions, including for the annual Kintyre Farm Concert, a love of dance and fiddle tunes. There and generations of fiddlers have will be plenty of both to go around played below the giant fiddle replica today. Fiddlers Mooney Francis and on the Centre’s stage. So it’s fitting Anita MacDonald are sure to find some that fiddle takes the throne tonight. tunes in common from the Cape Breton Ms. Brenda has provided her fiddle canon. The Ivan Flett Memorial Dancers flair since her formative years, greatly will contribute some Métis dancing influenced by the many Irish-styled while local Mi’kmaq group Stoney Bear Put Celtic fiddlers on the Island. Stan Chapman will share their singing, dancing, and is a fine fiddler in his own right, but drumming traditions. Sixteen-year- happens to have taught some notable Colours old Emma Stevens has a beautiful voice youth in his time, including some of and a keen awareness of her culture. this year’s Artists in Residence, Mairi This rising star’s Mi’kmaq version of in your Rankin and Wendy MacIsaac. And the Lennon/McCartney masterpiece we’ll hear what jazzy, classically- “Blackbird” has been attracting based Canadian quartet The Fretless pocket! international attention, including throw into the mix for this frenzied a recent performance at the United fiddle fest. Nations Habitat Assembly in Kenya. Our website is hosted by mobile friendly hosted by Eskasoni Band Council Judique Community Centre celtic-colours.com Development Association Nearby Meal: Thanksgiving by the Nearby Meal: Haddock Dinner Bras d’Or Page 29 Page 29 CONCERTS

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A GOOD THEIR LIGHTS CELTIC PUB D’ESCOUSSE WILL SHINE J.P. Cormier & Tim Edey FOR A PARTY The Men of the Deeps Kittel & Co. & John Doyle Kinnaris Quintet Talisk April Verch Band Ùr: The Future of our Past Jenna Moynihan Andrea Beaton

& Màiri Chaimbeul & Véronique Plasse North Sydney Firefighters Club, North Sydney • 7:30 pm • $35 Hailee LeFort Highland Arts Theatre, & Ward MacDonald Sydney • 7:30 pm • $40/30 Tonight we welcome back some familiar & Jesse Périard faces and are introduced to some folks If you’re a Cape Bretoner, there is Janelle Boudreau we’ll surely be seeing more of in years something about the Men of the Deeps 26 to come. Of course, J.P. Cormier and & Joël Chiasson parading to the stage from the back Tim Edey need no introduction, not of a room with the lamps lit on their since first meeting on stage during the D’Escousse Civic Improvement miners’ helmets that just touches your Guitar Summit at Celtic Colours in 2010. Hall, D’Escousse • 7:30 pm • $30/25 soul. Actually, even if you aren’t a Cape That meeting inspired many more, and Bretoner, this one-of-a-kind choir of eventually an album together which It’s a beautiful drive to D’Escousse men who have worked underground has was finally released, to critical acclaim, and tonight’s concert gives you a very a way of getting to you. After more than just last year. Sitting next to them at good excuse to do just that. Part of the 50 years of concerts around the world, the Guitar Summit that night was John purpose of this year’s theme, “lively albums, radio and television features, Doyle who has delighted Celtic Colours youth”, is to give a platform for young and a National Film Board documentary, audiences many times over the years with voices and perspectives. We’ll see plenty the Men of the Deeps transcend being his masterful picking, superb songwriting of that here tonight. Janelle Boudreau merely a singing group—it is a social and just the right accompaniment for is a fiddler and dancer from nearby institution. The camaraderie they have any situation. Tonight he joins award- Arichat who has entertained visitors at amongst themselves is carried over to winning fiddler Jeremy Kittel and concerts and dances around the Island. everyone in the room, wherever they mandolin player extraordinaire Josh She’ll be joined by her father James perform. Tonight that includes the Pinkham in the exciting trio Kittel & on guitar and Joël Chiasson on piano April Verch Band and the duo of Andrea Co. for their Celtic Colours debut. Also tonight for her Celtic Colours debut. East Beaton and Véronique Plasse, whose making their first appearance at the Margaree fiddler Hailee LeFort will be lights shine bright in their own right. Festival this year is Kinnaris Quintet, making her fourth appearance with us, April is a dynamo, step dancing while featuring the fantastic guitar-playing of backed by some musical friends from fiddling, singing while step dancing, Jenn Butterworth alongside three fiddles P.E.I. Boston-based harp and fiddle duo even singing, step dancing and fiddling and mandolin. Jenn has been here the last Jenna Moynihan and Màiri Chaimbeul, all at once. Accomplished and energetic few years with Ùr: The Future of our Past and Scottish trio Talisk will keep the fiddlers, Andrea and Véronique fuse and will be doing double duty at tonight’s youthful energy up as we see just what music from Québec and Cape Breton, jam-packed Celtic Pub. these young performers are capable of. mixing original compositions with hosted by traditional ones, taking turns exploring hosted by North Sydney Firefighters Club D’Escousse Civic Improvement Society melody and accompaniment, and 19 & Over; Photo ID required Nearby Meal: Isle Madame mesmerizing audiences with their Thanksgiving Dinner Page 29 intensity and precision. CONCERTS CONCERTS & CULTURAL EXPERIENCES

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BIG THANKSGIVING GUIDED HIKE IN THE BREAKFAST NATIONAL PARK: St. Peter’s Parish Hall, Port Hood ACADIAN TRAIL Acadian Trailhead, Chéticamp Visitor 9:00 am – 11:30 am • $12 Centre, Chéticamp Start your day with a full breakfast. 10:00 am • free with park pass Choice of eggs, sausage, bacon, ham, pancakes, breads, juice, tea or coffee. Join National Park staff for a steady contact: Joe Morris • 902-787-3284 climb through colourful Acadian forest [email protected] to breathtaking views of the plateau, hosted by KOC Port Hood river canyon, and Gulf of St. Lawrence. 8.4km loop, 3-4 hrs, 20-365 metre BLACKSMITHING WORKSHOP elevation. IN THE BLOOD The LeNoir Forge Museum, Arichat contact: Visitor Services • 902-224-2306 [email protected] 9:00 am - 12:00 pm Adult $65; hosted by John & Cailean MacLean youth $30. includes materials Cape Breton Highlands Pierre Chartrand National Park Visit one of the oldest stone buildings & Chartrand Babineau on the Island where you’ll learn about FIBRE FESTIVAL Ian MacDougall & Pius MacIsaac the traditional art of blacksmithing and Baddeck Volunteer Fire Department Rose & Lawrence Cameron produce a forge piece to take home. Class Community Centre, Baddeck sizes are limited to four participants. 10:00 am - 5:00 pm • $2 Alexander Graham Bell National Pre-registration is required. Historic Site, Baddeck • 7:30 pm • $30 contact: Susan Marchand-Terrio See page 60 for full description 902-226-9364 [email protected] There’s no doubt that the music’s in the EVELINE KLAMT EXHIBIT blood with these family pairings. There hosted by Isle Madame Historical Society J. Franklin Wright Gallery at Port 27 is a level of passion here that can’t be Hawkesbury Civic Centre, taught, it’s just built into their character. BUDDY MACMASTER FIDDLE CAMP Port Hawkesbury

When you feel it in the blood, it comes Celtic Music Interpretive Centre, 10:00 am - 8:00 pm • free out in the music and this concert Judique explores some family connections that 9:00 am - 3:00 pm • $150/day See page 60 for full description bear this out. Piper John MacLean comes or $500/week from a long line of fiddlers, dancers and CBC MAINSTREET RECORDED LIVE Today’s instructors are Shelly pipers on both sides of his family. His Knox Presbyterian Church, Baddeck Campbell and Glenn Graham. son Cailean was subsequently raised in a Pre-registration required. 10:30 am - 12:30 pm • free household steeped in traditional music and plays guitar with a passion for See page 60 for full description See page 60 for full description traditional music. Alexis Chartrand and INTERACTIVE EXHIBIT Nicolas Babineau are a young Québécois GUIDING LIGHTS OF ROOM TOUR duo inspired by Québec’s traditional ISLE MADAME Celtic Music Interpretive Centre, Judique music and dances. They are playing Lennox Passage Provincial Park, with Alexis’ father Pierre, an award- 9:00 am - 5:00 pm • $5 Martinique winning Québécois dance historian- 10:30 am - 12:30 pm • $20 ethnologist, choreographer, and master See page 60 for full description step dancer. Rose Cameron, making her This guided driving and walking tour Celtic Colours debut, is a classically- COME PLAY SPOONS WITH US shines a light on the history and ge- trained pianist and singer who will be La Place des arts Père Anselme ography of Isle Madame. Visit several performing with her dad, Lawrence on Chiasson, Cheticamp lighthouses, hear stories and interviews piano. Fiddler Ian MacDougall, known 10:00 am & 1:00 pm • $20 about light-keepers and their lives. for his driving dance style and older contact: Margaret Herdman Scottish repertoire, will drive the point See page 60 for full description 902-227-8303 home with his uncle Pius MacIsaac on [email protected] guitar. hosted by Isle Madame Lighthouse Preservation Society / Société de preservation hosted by Alexander Graham Bell Museum Association des phares de l’Ile Madame CULTURAL EXPERIENCES

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MI’KMAQ CULTURAL LAKESIDE IMPRESSIONS ART STORIES & SONGS EXPERIENCE AND CRAFT EXHIBIT FROM THE HEARTH Goat Island Trail, Eskasoni Scotsville School of Crafts, Scotsville The LeNoir Forge Museum, Arichat

11:00 am - 2:00 pm • adults $10; 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm • donation 1:30 pm - 3:45 pm • $8 seniors & children under 12 $7 See page 60 for full description Visit one of the oldest stone buildings on On this self-guided tour you will meet Cape Breton Island and experience the a variety of interpreters in villages set WEAVING DEMONSTRATION traditional art of blacksmithing. Enjoy a along a scenic trail who will share Scotsville School of Crafts, Scotsville demonstration as well as stories, various aspects of Mi’kmaq knowledge folklore, and songs. 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm • donation and history. contact: Susan Marchand-Terrio contact: Sandra MacDonald See page 61 for full description 902-226-9364 902-322-2279 [email protected] [email protected] DOORS OPEN FOR CHURCHES hosted by Isle Madame Historical Society hosted by Eskasoni Cultural Journeys Free Admission JOHN ALLAN CAMERON Farquarson Memorial Church, LUNCH CEILIDH SONG SESSION Celtic Music Interpretive Middle River Glencoe Station Hall, Glencoe Station 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm Centre, Judique 2:00 pm • $12 Middle River United, Middle River 11:00 am - 2:45 pm • $6 admission; pm pm Gather in Glencoe Station, birthplace menu pricing 1:00 - 4:00 of John Allan Cameron, to celebrate the St. John’s Centre for the Arts (Former Today’s artists are Shelly Campbell, songs of the Godfather of Celtic Music. Anglican Church), Arichat Glenn Graham, Allan Dewar and more. contact: Lisa Organ • 902-787-2744 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm See page 61 for full description [email protected] Our Lady of Assumption Catholic hosted by Glencoe Station Recreation ACADIAN KITCHEN PARTY Church, Arichat Association 28 L’Abrie Café Restaurant et Bar, 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm Chéticamp Église Saint Joseph, Petit-de-Grat MILLING FROLIC 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm • menu pricing 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm Baile nan Gàidheal / Highland Village, Iona See page 60 for full description See page 60 for full description 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm • museum charges apply

FIBRE FESTIVAL WORKSHOP: SQUARE DANCE WORKSHOP See page 61 for full description CELTIC KNOT DESIGN QUILTING St. Peter’s United Church Hall, Baddeck Volunteer Fire Department St. Peter’s ONE HUNDRED Community Centre, Baddeck 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm • $10 THOUSAND WELCOMES 12:30 pm - 4:30 pm Shannon Studio, Port Hawkesbury This fun workshop teaches the $50 includes materials Civic Centre, Port Hawkesbury “Roddie’s Square Set”. This popular In this hands-on workshop you will square set from the ‘50s and ‘60s in the 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm • $10 learn the appliqué stitch, quilters knot, St. Peter’s area was revived 10 years ago A musical and comedy theatrical revue and other options for the completion of by a local dance group. of a cultural coming of age, reflections your take-home piece. contact: Reg Landry • 902-535-2093 from working the tourist bureau contact: Dianne Quimby • 902-945-2226 [email protected] in the ‘90s. [email protected] hosted by Roddie’s Square Dancing Society contact: Adam Cooke • 902-625-8863 hosted by South Haven Weavers Guild [email protected] and Baddeck Quilt Guild hosted by Strait Area Theatre Society

THE ALEXANDER GRAHAM TRADITIONAL CHÉTICAMP BELL SERIES SQUARE SET Alexander Graham Bell National Historic Centre de la Mi-Carême, Site, Baddeck Grand Étang Harbour

1:00 pm - 2:00 pm • museum charges apply 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm • $10 See page 61 for full description Come spend an afternoon dancing with live music, a professional teacher to CULTURAL EXPERIENCES CULTURAL EXPERIENCES

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guide you through the steps, and lots THANKSGIVING BY THE BRAS D’OR of laughs. No prior dance training Fisheries Building, Eskasoni necessary. pm Thigibh air 5:00 • $35 contact: 902-224-1016 info@@micareme.ca Overlooking the Bras d’Or Lake, hosted by Société Mi-Carême enjoy roast turkey dinner with potatoes, chéilidh oirnn! vegetables, all the trimmings, dessert OPEN MIC SESSIONS and endless tea. Proceeds support the Bras d’Or Yacht Club, Baddeck community’s high school travel group. Come visit us! contact: George Paul • 902-577-0073 2:00 pm - 6:00 pm • donation [email protected] Cultural Demonstrations Gain a new perspective on local Gaelic culture with hosted by Eskasoni High School Travel See page 61 for full description these informative, interactive cultural demonstrations. Group $ TUNES & TALK WITH MAIRI Wednesday, October 16 - Friday, October 18 [5/person ] 10:30am: The Great Kilt RANKIN & ERIC WRIGHT BROOK VILLAGE ADULT Celtic Music Interpretive Centre, Judique 11:00am: Gaelic Lesson and Milling Frolic SQUARE DANCE 11:30am: Music and Dance 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm • donation Brook Village Hall, Brook Village Cape Breton fiddler Mairi Rankin, mem- 9:30 pm - 1:00 am • $8 Traditional Jam Sessions ber of the bands Beòlach and The Outside The College will play host to traditional jam sessions This is a very popular dance through the held on-site. Bring along an instrument, a song, or just Track, has teamed up with Eric Wright, summer and fall on Cape Breton. Come yourself! Bar services available. [ No Admission ] cellist with The Fretless. They will swing your partner! Music provided by Wednesday, October 16 - Friday, October 18 demonstrate and discuss their merging Rodney MacDonald and friends. 1:00pm-3:00pm of styles. Ages 19+ contact: Celtic Music Interpretive Centre contact: Jeff Lee • 902-945-2800 Nightly Festival Club 902-787-2708 • [email protected] 902-258-5233 The biggest and best party around, Festival Club is a hosted by Celtic Music Interpretive Centre [email protected] must if wanting the full festival experience. Make plans 29 hosted by Brookvillage Social Committee for St. Ann’s, and we’ll see you in the Hall of the Clans. ISLE MADAME [ $20 / $10 with concert ticket stub from that day ] THANKSGIVING DINNER KITCHEN RACKETS JAM SESSION October 11-19 // 11:00pm OLA Parish Hall, Arichat Bras d’Or Lakes Inn, St. Peter’s 4:00 pm - 6:30 pm • $18 All-Night Breakfast + Lunch Specials 10:00 pm - 1:00 am • $3; free for jammers Nothing tastes better than a big, hearty breakfast after a There are two sittings to choose from, big, hearty night at Festival Club! Between the late-night See page 60 for full description 4:00-5:15 or 5:15-6:30, for this home- Festival Club kitchen, our all-night breakfast kitchen, and cooked roast turkey dinner with all the our daily lunchtime specials, we’ve got you covered! $ $ trimmings, dessert, and tea or coffee. [Breakfast: 9/person | Lunch: 13.50/person ] Breakfast: 2:00am-2:00pm - MacKenzie Hall contact: Valerie Boudreau Lunch: 12:00pm - 1:30pm - MacKenzie Hall [email protected] hosted by Friends of Notre Dame de l’Assomption

HADDOCK DINNER Celtic Music Interpretive Centre, Judique

4:30 pm - 7:00 pm • $16 / menu prices Enjoy a delicious pan-fried haddock din- ner with mashed potatoes, vegetables, dessert, and tea or coffee for $16. Other choices at menu prices. Live music by Shelly Campbell and Allan Dewar. No reservations. contact: Celtic Music Interpretive Centre 902-787-2708 • [email protected] hosted by Celtic Music Interpretive Centre

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TUNES IN THE THESE STRINGS COW BAY CEILIDH AFTERNOON WILL SING Talisk Miller | MacDonald | Cormier The Fretless Ian MacDougall Colin Grant & Doug MacPhee Dwayne Côté & Tracey Dares MacNeil Jenna Moynihan & Jason MacDonald & Patrick Gillis & Màiri Chaimbeul Rosie MacKenzie Kaia Kater & Dominique Dodge Calvin United Church, Port Morien Legion / Community Adrianne Chapman pm New Waterford • 2:00 pm • $30 Centre, Port Morien • 7:30 • $35 Our Lady of Fatima Church, With strong ties to their Scottish Tuesday is the middle of the week for Sydney River • 7:30 pm • $30/25 Celtic Colours and there’s often a shift 30 and Irish roots intact, folks in New Waterford sure do love their music. around this time as folks who were The strings will be singing this evening Doug MacPhee, paired today with Colin here for the first half of the Festival are at our Lady of Fatima Church in Sydney Grant, grew up here where the very best leaving while others are just arriving, River as fiddles, violins, viola, cello, harp Cape Breton fiddlers of the day would fresh and ready to go. It’s kind of like and guitar share the spotlight alongside gather at his house to play with his reinforcements to get us through to songs sung in Gaelic and English. Juno mother Margaret on piano. As many of the end of the week—an extra little jolt Award-winning foursome The Fretless his generation did, Doug travelled for of energy as the second wind kicks in. has been pushing at the boundaries of work, and a popular place to go in those Tonight at the Cow Bay Ceilidh in Port traditional music since releasing their days was the Boston area. So popular, in Morien, we get one last chance to see the first album in 2012, making them a good fact, that Cape Breton fiddlers and piano unbelievably energetic concertina, fiddle, fit with Dwayne Côté, celebrated as one players would go to play for, and with, guitar trio Talisk, and our first glimpse of of the most unique and innovative violin the expatriate Cape Bretoners there. Kaia Kater. Kaia grew up with deep family players in Canada. Singer and songwriter That strong connection to traditional ties to folk music and spent years soaking Adrianne Chapman has spent much of music continues to this day in the up Appalachian music while studying her life in the Highlands of Cape Breton, Boston area, and it’s where fiddler in West Virginia. Her old-time banjo- where she feels most connected to her Jenna Moynihan and harper Màiri picking skills, tasteful arrangements, and Celtic heritage. A descendent of fiddler Chaimbeul first got together. Ben Miller informed and sincere songwriting have Winston “Scotty” Fitzgerald, Adrianne grew up in New York with a love for the landed her in the spotlight here in her has been singing all of her life and the pipes. His Scottish and Irish influences native Canada and around the world and sincere emotion that comes through have combined winningly with Anita we’re excited for her Celtic Colours debut in her voice is truly captivating. Rosie MacDonald’s Cape Breton Gaelic tonight. Three of Cape Breton’s finest— MacKenzie and Dominique Dodge heritage of fiddle, dance, and Gaelic Ian MacDougall, Tracey Dares MacNeil, complete this lineup of singing strings song and the Acadian twist of Zakk and Patrick Gillis—round out the ceilidh with the most beautiful combination of Cormier’s guitar-playing. Immerse with a hometown touch on fiddle, piano, fiddle, harp and songs. yourself in a peaceful sanctuary for an and guitar. afternoon of heavenly tunes. hosted by Our Lady of Fatima CWL hosted by

hosted by Calvin United Church Port Morien Development Association

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A FIRST TIME FOR KICKING ASH A CHÉTICAMP EVERYTHING Beòlach SOIRÉE Breabach Kittel & Co. & John Doyle J.P. Cormier & Jake Lauzon J.J. Chaisson & Darla MacPhee Finlay MacDonald & Chris Stout Strathspey Performing Arts Centre, Nipper MacLeod Mabou • 7:30 pm • $35/30 & Rémi Arsenault Hailee LeFort Andrea Beaton Tonight’s concert brings this year’s & Véronique Plasse & Ward MacDonald Artists in Residence together for a Lisa Cameron & Vern MacDougall & Jesse Périard special, uplifting journey along musical paths that start in Scotland and land in & Finley MacDougall Riverdale Community Centre, Lower Mabou, where shared traditions ring River Inhabitants • 7:30 pm • $30 true. Rooted in the culture of the Scottish Place des arts Père-Anselme-Chiasson, 31 Highlands, Cape Breton’s Beòlach and Chéticamp • 7:30 pm • $30/25 Celtic Colours has a way of facilitating, Scotland’s Breabach have much in inspiring, or conspiring to create common. With similar instrumentation It is said that you can see Prince Edward opportunities for new collaborations and a penchant for exploration, both Island from Chéticamp. The strong among artists. And in some cases, a are known for presenting original connection between Cape Breton and knack for rekindling old ones. While this compositions alongside unique, P.E.I. music makes one wonder if you can isn’t exactly the first time some of the dynamic arrangements of classic hear across the Northumberland Strait folks in this show have played together, traditional tunes, steeped in the rural as well. J.J. Chaisson and Darla MacPhee it is certainly a first time for Celtic culture of the Gaels. We’ll see both bands come from P.E.I.’s famously musical Colours audiences. Bringing performers perform on their own, together, and in Chaisson family. Cape Breton fiddler together in new combinations makes different formations for a special, once- and composer Andrea Beaton spent for an exciting time on stage, as well as in-a-lifetime performance. If you were some formative years playing with the for those listening in from the audience here in 2018, you might have noticed Chaissons, and Rémi Arsenault played on and that’s sure to be the deal with they shared the stage in Membertou. one of Andrea’s albums. More recently, Jeremy Kittel, Josh Pinkham and John That wasn’t a coincidence but a plan Andrea has been performing with Doyle, three extraordinary players who to set the stage for tonight. Just for Québécois fiddler Véronique Plasse. J.P.’s have teamed up just for Celtic Colours. fun, we translated their band names Cape Breton roots are in the Chéticamp Cape Breton fiddler Hailee LeFort will from Gaelic and found that breabach area—just one of many influences on be performing in a new trio with fiddle means “kicking” while beòlach can be his playing. Another is the bluegrass and piano player Ward MacDonald translated to “ashes with hot embers”. he picked up touring as a teenager in and guitarist Jesse Périard from P.E.I., A year in the making, we think this the American south. We’ll get a taste of while Shetland fiddler and past Artist in meeting of musical minds is going to be that when J.P. and Jake Lauzon team up. Residence Chris Stout will take the stage one “ash kicking” good time. Get your And we welcome Cape Breton singer- with Scottish piper Finlay MacDonald. tickets early! You don’t want to miss songwriter Lisa Cameron backed by We’ll also see Nipper MacLeod step this one. husband Vern on guitar and son Finley on mandolin. Chauffe-les! out from the Men of the Deeps to sing hosted by a few Cape Breton classics in that Dalbrae Academy Student Council hosted by Le Conseil des arts de Chéticamp unmistakeable baritone voice of his.

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MI’KMAQ MEDICINE WALK St. Margaret of Scotland Catholic EXHIBIT: TEN645 Membertou Trade and Church, Broad Cove Cape Breton Centre for Craft Convention Centre, Membertou 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm and Design, Sydney

9:00 am & 1:00 pm • $35 See page 60 for full description 10:00 am - 4:00 pm • free

Choose from either 9am-12pm or GUIDED HIKE IN THE See page 60 for full description 1pm-4pm for your tour. Please book in NATIONAL PARK: CORNEY BROOK advance as there are 20 spots per tour. Corney Brook Trail, Chéticamp FIBRE FESTIVAL You will learn traditional practices while Baddeck Volunteer Fire Department walking through a wooded trail, and 10:00 am • free with park pass Community Centre, Baddeck finish with a dreamcatcher workshop Join Park staff for a hike to the Corney 10:00 am - 5:00 pm • $2 and the baking of luskinikn bread. Brook Waterfall. The hike takes you contact: David Meuse through an Acadian hardwood forest in See page 60 for full description 902-564-6466 ext 5025 • 902-574-7415 a river canyon. 2 hours, 6.5 km, 30-170 hosted by Destination Membertou meter elevation. EVELINE KLAMT EXHIBIT contact: Visitor Services • 902-224-2306 J. Franklin Wright Gallery at Port BUDDY MACMASTER FIDDLE CAMP [email protected] Hawkesbury Civic Centre, Celtic Music Interpretive Centre, hosted by Cape Breton Highlands Port Hawkesbury Judique National Park 10:00 am - 8:00 pm • free 9:00 am - 3:00 pm $150/day or $500/week See page 60 for full description HIKE IN NORTH RIVER AND LUNCH Today’s instructors are Kimberley North River Community Hall, GUIDING LIGHTS OF Fraser and Kendra MacGillivray. North River ISLE MADAME Pre-registration required. Lennox Passage Provincial Park, See page 60 for full description 10:00 am • $15 Martinique Come for a guided hike in the North 32 INTERACTIVE EXHIBIT 10:30 am - 12:30 pm • $20 River area with local author, playwright, ROOM TOUR historian, and outdoor enthusiast Bev This guided driving and walking tour Celtic Music Interpretive Centre, Judique Brett. Hike takes approx. 1 – 1.5 hours shines a light on the history and ge- 9:00 am - 5:00 pm • $5 and is followed by a hot lunch in the ography of Isle Madame. Visit several community hall. lighthouses, hear stories and interviews See page 60 for full description contact: Bev Brett • [email protected] about light-keepers and their lives. contact hosted by North River Community Hall : Margaret Herdman • 902-227- DOORS OPEN FOR CHURCHES 8303 • [email protected] Free Admission HAND DRUM MAKING AND SONG hosted by Isle Madame Lighthouse St. Mary’s Catholic Church, Mabou Membertou Heritage Park , Preservation Society / Société de preservation 9:30 am - 4:30 pm Membertou des phares de l’Ile Madame

St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, 10:00 am & 2:00 pm CBC MAINSTREET RECORDED LIVE $150 includes materials Sydney Mines Knox Presbyterian Church, Baddeck 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm Learn about the history and significance 10:30 am - 12:30 pm • free The Former St. Peter and St. John of the Mi’kmaq hand drum while you Anglican Church, Baddeck build your own in this hands-on work- See page 60 for full description 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm shop. Reserve ahead for start times at either 10am or 2pm. St. John’s Centre for the Arts (Former contact: Jeff Ward • 902-567-5333 Anglican Church), Arichat 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm [email protected] hosted by Membertou Heritage Park Our Lady of Assumption Catholic Aboriginal Culture Centre Church, Arichat 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm COME PLAY SPOONS WITH US

Knox Presbyterian Church, Baddeck La Place des arts Père Anselme 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm Chiasson, Chéticamp

10:00 am & 1:00 pm • $20

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SOUP AND SANDWICH LUNCHEON CELTIC CONVERSATIONS HANDS-ON SPINNING St. Stephen’s Jubilee United Church, McConnell Library, Sydney DEMONSTRATION Port Hood Scotsville School of Crafts, Scotsville 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm • free 11:00 am - 1:00 pm • $10 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm • donation See page 60 for full description Enjoy a lovely lunch in scenic Port Hood. Spinning wool is an ancient craft that is First come, first served. Includes FIBRE FESTIVAL WORKSHOP: alive and well. Join us to watch a spinner tea or coffee. LACE KNITTING MADE EASY at work and give it a try! contact: Susan Campbell • 902-787-2842 Baddeck Volunteer Fire Department contact: Verna MacMillan • 902-258-2278 [email protected] Community Centre, Baddeck [email protected] hosted by hosted by Lake Ainslie Weavers & St. Stephen’s-Jubilee United 12:30 pm - 4:30 pm Church Hall $50 includes materials Craft Guild This workshop is for those with knitting LUNCH CEILIDH LAKESIDE IMPRESSIONS ART experience and registration is required. Celtic Music Interpretive AND CRAFT EXHIBIT You’ll be shown how to make a small Centre, Judique Scotsville School of Crafts, Scotsville sampler and block it, learn chart 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm • donation 11:00 am - 2:45 pm • $6; menu pricing reading, and more. Today’s artists are Kimberley Fraser & contact: Dianne Quimby • 902-945-2226 See page 60 for full description Kendra MacGillivray, Allan Dewar [email protected] and more. hosted by South Haven Weavers’ Guild WEAVING DEMONSTRATION and Baddeck Quilt Guild See page 61 for full description Scotsville School of Crafts, Scotsville SHARING THE MI’KMAQ UNDERGROUND TOUR OF 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm • donation WAYS, RECONCILIATION A COALMINE Skye River Trail, We’koqma’q Cape Breton Miners’ Museum, See page 61 for full description First Nation Glace Bay BLACKSMITHING WORKSHOP 33 1:00 pm • Adults $25; Youth $10 11:00 am - 4:00 pm • adults $16; The LeNoir Forge Museum, Arichat youth $13 Experience the traditional ways of the 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm • adults $65; youth Mi’kmaq by learning about Mi’kmaq Call to book a 90-minute tour down into $30. includes materials a mine, guided by a former coal miner ceremonies and healing practices. Make who shares stories from his life and the your very own medicine pouch, and take Visit one of the oldest stone buildings lives of his family, friends and mining a guided medicine walk through Skye on Cape Breton Island and learn about buddies. River trail. the traditional art of blacksmithing, contact: Mary Pat Mombourquette contact: Susan Googoo • 902-295-0841 and produce a forge piece to take home. 902-849-4522 [email protected] Class sizes are limited to four partici- [email protected] hosted by We’koqma’q First Nation pants. Pre-registration is required. hosted by Cape Breton Miners Museum contact: Susan Marchand-Terrio THE ALEXANDER GRAHAM 902-226-9364 BELL SERIES [email protected] RURAL AND URBAN Inverness County Centre for the Arts, Alexander Graham Bell National Historic hosted by Isle Madame Historical Society Inverness Site, Baddeck

11:00 am - 5:00 pm • free 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm • museum charges apply

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ACADIAN KITCHEN PARTY Harbour Restaurant and Bar, Chéticamp

12:00 pm - 1:30 pm • menu pricing Search community See page 60 for full description events online Our website is mobile friendly celtic-colours.com CULTURAL EXPERIENCES

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EASEL STUDIO DRAWING STORYTELLING: contact: [email protected]

STILL LIFE BELLES AND BEAUS - hosted by Brooks Haven Seniors’ Scotsville School of Crafts, Scotsville OLD TIME WEDDINGS Recreation Centre Chestico Museum, Port Hood 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm HOOKED RUG MUSEUM $30 includes materials 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm • $10 GUIDED TOUR Come to this drawing class hosted by Gather at this charming community Les Trois Pignons, Chéticamp local artist Barrie Fraser whose work in- museum for an afternoon of tales of tra- 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm • $20 cludes oil, acrylic, ink, and watercolour ditional Cape Breton marriage customs drawings and paintings. including the music, dancing, feasting, This guided tour takes you through contact: Verna MacMillan • 902-258-2278 shivarees, and more. hundreds of antiques reflecting the daily [email protected] contact: Chestico Museum • 902-787-2244 life of Chéticamp settlers, demonstra- hosted by Lake Ainslie Weavers & Craft Guild hosted by Chestico Museum & tions of techniques used, and renowned Historical Society collections from Elizabeth LeFort and BOAT TOUR OF Marguerite Gallant. Leave with a CHAPEL ISLAND OPEN MIC SESSIONS souvenir. Chapel Island Wharf, Potlotek Bras d’Or Yacht Club, Baddeck contact: Jérémie Poirier • 902-224-2642

1:00 pm - 5:00 pm • $60 2:00 pm - 6:00 pm • donation [email protected] hosted by La Société Saint-Pierre Join us for a boat tour of historical See page 61 for full description Chapel Island, a sacred place for the HEARTY BOWL OF DINNER Mi’kmaq community, with a stop for CBU STUDENT JAM SESSION Brooks Haven Seniors’ a meal on the island. Cape Breton University, Sydney Recreation Centre, Prime Brook contact: Noelle Doucette • 902-535-3160 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm • free [email protected] 4:00 pm - 6:30 pm • $20 hosted by Potlotek Education Cape Breton University offers Canada’s Enjoy a heaping portion of your choice only undergraduate music major in of chili or chowder, with homemade 34 SOUNDS AND SUPPER traditional music. Our traditional music biscuit, tea or coffee, and dessert. BY THE SEA students and their instructor, Kyle contact: Lisa Côté • 902-371-8948 Lobsters R Us, L’Ardoise MacNeil, together with a special Celtic [email protected] 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm • $35 Colours guest artist, welcome you to hosted by Brooks Haven Seniors’ bring along your instruments. Recreation Centre Ceilidh at 1pm, meal at 3pm featuring a hosted by Cape Breton University 1.5lb lobster, salads, dessert, and coffee HAM AND SALAD SUPPER or tea. Ham dinner available for those CELTIC MUSIC JAM SESSION St. Paul’s Anglican Church Hall, who prefer. Celtic Music Interpretive Centre, Port Morien contact: Nils Adamson • 902-587-2778 Judique [email protected] 4:30 pm - 6:30 pm • $15 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm • $5; free for players hosted by L’Ardoise Men’s Club Enjoy baked ham with potato salad, Open jam session for all Celtic musicians coleslaw, homemade pie for dessert, and TRADITIONAL CÉILIDH and listeners. Bring your instrument and tea or coffee. Baile nan Gàidheal / join in, or drop in for a drink and a bite contact: Norma Peach • 902-737-1518 Highland Village, Iona to eat and just listen. [email protected] 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm • museum charges apply contact: Celtic Music Interpretive Centre hosted by St. Paul’s Anglican Church Women 902-787-2708 • [email protected] Join us for a traditional céilidh as we hosted by Celtic Music Interpretive Centre PORT HOOD ROAST BEEF DINNER share stories, songs and music. St. Peter’s Parish Hall, Port Hood Refreshments will be served. AUTUMN COLOURS 4:30 pm - 6:30 pm • adult $17.50; contact: Baile nan Gàidheal / PAINTING CLASS youth 12 & under $8 Highland Village • 902-725-2272 Brooks Haven Seniors’ Recreation hosted by Baile nan Gàidheal / Centre, Prime Brook Enjoy a hot roast beef dinner with all the Highland Village trimmings, vegetables, dessert, and tea 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm • $25 includes materials or coffee. Learn how to paint an autumn-themed contact: Joe Morris • 902-787-3284 canvas with a qualified instructor. [email protected] All materials provided. hosted by KOC Port Hood (St. Peter’s Council) CULTURAL EXPERIENCES CULTURAL EXPERIENCES & CONCERTS

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STUFFED CHICKEN DINNER Knights of Columbus Hall, New Waterford

4:30 pm - 6:30 pm • $17 Enjoy a stuffed chicken dinner with potato, vegetables, dessert, and tea or coffee. contact: Bernie MacLellan 902-862-6104 hosted by KOC New Waterford

ACADIAN CULINARY EXPERIENCE La Place des arts Père STEEPED IN CLOSE TO THE Anselme Chiasson, Chéticamp TRADITION FLOOR 5:00 pm • $35 Miller | MacDonald | Cormier Nic Gareiss & Mairi Campbell Enjoy a locally-sourced three course meal with traditional meat fricot, salad, home- Buddy MacDonald April Verch Band made meat pie, wild blueberry cake with & Rachel Davis The Pellerin Brothers sauce, and tea or coffee. Dave MacIsaac & Dawn Beaton Pierre Chartrand contact: Le Conseils des Arts & Hilda Chiasson & Chartrand Babineau 902-224-1876 hosted by Le Conseil des arts de Dawn & Helen MacDonald Ephraim Scott Memorial Presbyterian Chéticamp & Brenley Gillis Church, South Haven • 2:00 pm • $35 Stephen & Lewis MacLennan DORYMAN SESSION The performers in today’s matinee at the 35 Doryman Pub & Grill, Chéticamp Iain MacQuarrie Ephraim Scott Presbyterian Church have John & Cailean MacLean 9:00 pm - 12:00 am • $5; free for players soaked up the traditions of Gaelic music, and chéticamp soirée ticket holders culture and song as passed down over Kenneth MacKenzie Musicians are invited to join in the fun at generations. To say they are all steeped & Kolten MacDonell the famous Doryman by bringing their in tradition is to say they have each & Orianna MacNeil musical instruments. Listeners absorbed the essential elements of the and dancers welcome. tradition, much as the water absorbs the Strathspey Performing Arts taste and flavour of tea when steeping contact: Jérémie Poirier • 902-224-2642 Centre, Mabou • 7:30 pm • $35/30 [email protected] Cape Bretoners’ favourite cup. Miller | MacDonald | Cormier bring together hosted by La Société Saint-Pierre Cape Breton’s traditional music has pipes, fiddle, guitar, Gaelic song and always been closely associated with KITCHEN RACKETS JAM SESSION dancing with roots in Scottish, Irish, dancing. And the dancing, like the Bras d’Or Lakes Inn, St. Peter’s Cape Breton and Acadian traditions. music, has typically been passed down The trio recorded their latest album, through generations. The highest 10:00 pm - 1:00 am • $3; free for jammers South Haven, in this very church which is compliment that can be paid to a Cape hosting a Celtic Colours concert for the See page 60 for full description Breton step dancer is to say they are first time. Dave MacIsaac, Dawn Beaton, “close to the floor”. Tonight’s concert and Hilda Chiasson will offer a very will celebrate this local style alongside traditional repertoire and style of fiddle dance from the Québécois, Ottawa tunes, while Buddy MacDonald and Valley and Appalachian traditions. Rachel Davis will honour the tradition Accompanied by fiddles, pipes, and of those who came before them, from guitar, the dancers gathered here will the Gaelic song tradition of the North delight and amaze with their steps and Shore to the fiddle-playing of Rachel’s style. They just might inspire you to get grandfather in the nearby Baddeck area. up for a step or two yourself. Suas e!

hosted by hosted by Ephraim Scott Presbyterian Church Chestico Museum & Historical Society

Nearby Meal: Marag, Neeps and Nearby Meal: Annual Salmon Tatties Page 40 Dinner Page 40 CONCERTS

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WAY UP DOWN CEILIDH IN THE YOUNG NORTH GLEN: CEILIDH AND RESTLESS Saltfishforty ANNS A’BHRAIGH Finlay MacDonald & Chris Stout Kittel & Co. The Fretless Ùr: The Future of our Past Donnie Campbell Joanne MacIntyre & sons Margaret MacPherson & Jinks O’Neill & Rita Rankin & Jordan Musycsyn

North Highlands Elementary, Gillian Boucher & Bob McNeill Louisbourg Playhouse, Aspy Bay • 7:30 pm • $30 Rosie MacKenzie Louisbourg • 7:30 pm • $40/35/30 & Dominique Dodge It may sound strange at first, but many & Jenny MacKenzie We’ve gathered the young and restless 36 locals refer to northern Cape Breton, together for this concert in one of the particularly northern Victoria County, as Festival’s most unique venues, the St. Mary of the Angels Community “down north”. The seemingly counter- Louisbourg Playhouse. The Scottish Hall, Glendale • 7:30 pm • $30 intuitive term is a leftover from the music students in Úr: The Future of days of sailing ships when vessels were There’s a ceilidh in the glen tonight our Past personify this year’s “lively carried north by the winds of the Gulf and you can bet it will be as strongly youth” theme and definitely fit the bill Stream. These days we travel mostly by rooted in tradition as its surroundings of young and restless. There is a certain road, and a trip down north will take are. Known for generous hospitality inability to stay still shared by all of the you along the breathtakingly beautiful and enduring Gaelic customs, Glendale performers in this concert, whether in Cabot Trail. Whether on the clockwise residents hold their culture in high their teens, twenties or creeping a little route north from Chéticamp, or coming regard and take their ceilidhs to a whole bit older. It’s a desire to keep moving through the Ingonish area on the east new level. From ceilidhs at the hall, to forward, in this case, with the music they side of the Island, you will be rewarded legendary house parties down the road, love. Jordan Musycsyn is best-known as with magnificent views of the Cape Joanne MacIntyre and Rita Rankin can a singer and songwriter, both with his Breton Highlands and the rocky shore relate to that. Beautiful Gaelic singers band or performing solo, while Margaret below. Once you arrive at Aspy Bay, from Mabou Coal Mines, they’ll share MacPherson is most often found in the you’re in for a real treat of tunes and the stage with Joanne’s sons tonight. soft-seat theatres, treading the boards songs from genre-defying American Gillian Boucher grew up with ceilidhs, or singing in musicals. After a few years fiddler Jeremy Kittel and mandolin playing fiddle and dancing while Rosie of performing in the beloved musical- ace Josh Pinkham, energetic tunes and MacKenzie and Dominique Dodge bring comedy show Cape Breton Summertime songs from Orkney’s Saltfishforty, and fiddle, harp and dance together with Revue, they started singing together as a centuries of hits by Cape Breton duo Jenny MacKenzie. The Fretless may not duo. Finlay MacDonald and Chris Stout Donnie Campbell and Jinks O’Neill. have grown up in the ceilidh tradition, have been playing together for more than 15 years, but their pipes and fiddle duo hosted by but with three fiddles and a cello in the North Highlands Elementary group, we’re sure they’ll get the hang of has never lost the exuberance of youth. Home and School it in no time. hosted by Louisbourg Playhouse Society

hosted by Glendale and Area Community Cooperative Nearby Meals: Top of the Island Seafood Supper and Lobster and Nearby Meal: Chowder Choices Nearby Meal: Roast Beef Dinner Crab Supper Page 40 Page 40 in Louisbourg Page 40 CONCERTS CONCERTS

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CEILIDH ON FIDDLE, THE CANAL SCHTICKS, Kaia Kater AND SONGS J.J. Chaisson & Darla MacPhee Beòlach & Rémi Arsenault Bette MacDonald Shelly Campbell & Maynard Morrison & Donna Marie DeWolfe Cyril MacPhee & Roger Stone & Allan Dewar Highland Arts Theatre, St. Peter’s Lions Hall, Sydney • 7:30 pm • $40/30 St. Peter’s • 7:30 pm • $30/25 Bette MacDonald and Maynard Morrison 37 Tonight’s Ceilidh on the Canal in St. are well-known for the hilarious Peter’s features tunes from Cape Breton characters that were, and continue to and Prince Edward Island played on be, the backbone of popular shows the fiddle, guitar, and piano, and a timeless Rise and Follies of Cape Breton Island, the collection of songs and banjo-playing Cape Breton Summertime Revue, and ‘Tis with deep roots in the folk, bluegrass the Season. If anyone remembers the and Appalachian traditions. It’s an Celtic Idol show from a few Celtic Colours exciting mix of tradition and inspiration ago, you know that Beòlach’s Wendy THE that comes through in rising star Kaia MacIsaac is willing to go the extra mile Kater’s songs and banjo-playing. Kaia for a laugh. And if anyone knows the CHIEFTAINS has a way of making the traditional crew that is Beòlach, you’ll recognize songs sound like they could have been that she is not alone in that department AND written today, and her originals like among the rest of the band. Of course, FRIENDS they were written a hundred years ago. Beòlach will be on hand primarily for The Chieftains Donna Marie DeWolfe from nearby River the tunes, but you just never really Tillard, counts fiddler Shelly Campbell know what can happen on a night like Ashley MacIsaac as a big influence on her playing. It’s this. Cyril MacPhee and Roger Stone remarkable to see how a student can will handle the songs for the evening, & Phamie Gow absorb a teacher’s style and quality of although they’re pretty funny guys playing, even to the point of holding themselves. They may even have some & Tim Edey their instrument in a similar way. Shelly funny stories about when they used Cape Breton and Allan Dewar have made many trips to play together in the popular Cape over to P.E.I. to take in the Chaisson Breton band Brakin’ Tradition a few (or University Pipe Band family’s Rollo Bay Festival, and will so) years ago. It seems safe to say that surely find some tunes in common with there may be some familiar Cape Breton Centre 200, Sydney • 7:30 pm J.J. Chaisson, Darla MacPhee, and Rémi characters showing up at the Highland $70/60/50/40 Arsenault. Bring on the finale for this Arts Theatre tonight. Don’t miss this show right now! memorable night of music and laughs.

hosted by Village on the Canal Association Presented by CULTURAL EXPERIENCES

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CABOT’S CELTIC BREAKFAST The Former St. Peter and St. John contact: Verna MacMillan • 902-258-2278 Cape North Fire Hall, Cape North Anglican Church, Baddeck [email protected]

1:00 pm - 4:00 pm hosted by Lake Ainslie Weavers & Craft 8:30 am - 11:00 am • $10

Sacred Heart, Johnstown Guild Stop in for a hearty brunch including 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm fruit, and tea or coffee. Eat in or take out EXHIBIT: TEN645 available. Union Presbyterian Church, Albert Bridge Cape Breton Centre for Craft 2:00 pm - 6:00 pm contact: Norman MacDonald and Design, Sydney 902-285-4333 St. Bartholomew Anglican, Louisbourg 10:00 am - 4:00 pm • free [email protected] 2:00 pm - 6:30 pm

hosted by Northern Cabot Landing Society See page 60 for full description See page 60 for full description BUDDY MACMASTER FIDDLE CAMP EVELINE KLAMT EXHIBIT GUIDED HIKE IN THE NATIONAL Celtic Music Interpretive Centre, J. Franklin Wright Gallery at Port PARK: ASPY TRAIL Judique Hawkesbury Civic Centre, Aspy Trailhead, Big Intervale Port Hawkesbury 9:00 am - 3:00 pm • $150/day 10:00 am • free with park pass or $500/week am pm free 10:00 - 8:00 • Join Park staff for a guided hike of the Today’s instructors are Kenneth See page 60 for full description MacKenzie and J.J. Chaisson. Aspy trail, a steady climb through mixed forest to views of the Aspy fault escarp- Pre-registration required. CULTURAL ment and waterfall. 3-4 hours, 7.9 km See page 60 for full description DEMONSTRATIONS return, 260-410 meter elevation. Colaisde na Gàidhlig / contact: Visitor Services • 902-224-2306 INTERACTIVE EXHIBIT The Gaelic College, St. Ann’s ROOM TOUR [email protected] hosted by Cape Breton Highlands 10:30 am - 12:00 pm • $5 Celtic Music Interpretive Centre, Judique National Park Get a firsthand look at the living tradi- 38 9:00 am - 5:00 pm • $5 tions of the Nova Scotia Gaels with fun DREAM-CATCHER MAKING See page 60 for full description and interactive cultural demonstrations. WORKSHOP contact: Gail Montgomery • 902-295-3411 DOORS OPEN FOR CHURCHES Membertou Heritage Park, Membertou ex 226 • [email protected] Free Admission 10:00 am & 2:00 pm • $15 hosted by Colaisde na Gàidhlig /

The Gaelic College St. Joseph’s Catholic, River Denys Choose between 10am or 2pm workshop 10:00 am - 2:00 pm where you’ll learn the stories, teach- DANCE DIALECTS St. Andrew’s Anglican, Neil’s Harbour ings, and how to make a dream-catcher. West Mabou Hall, West Mabou 10:00 am - 3:00 pm Reserve your spot in advance.

contact: Jeff Ward • 902-567-5333 10:30 am - 12:15 pm • $15 St. Margaret of Scotland, [email protected] St. Margaret’s Village A unique and informative exploration of hosted by Membertou Heritage Park 10:00 am - 5:00 pm different percussive dance dialects host- Aboriginal Culture Centre St. Matthew Wesley United Church, ed by Mabou-based dancer and fiddler Melody Cameron. The event will feature North Sydney COME PLAY SPOONS WITH US discussion and performances by fea- 11:00 am - 3:00 pm La Place des arts Père Anselme tured dancers of different styles and will Aspy Bay United, Aspy Bay Chiasson, Cheticamp allow for some audience participation. 11:00 am - 5:00 pm 10:00 am & 1:00 pm • $20 contact: Derrick & Melody Cameron

Princeville United, Princeville [email protected] See page 60 for full description 12:00 pm - 4:00 pm hosted by West Mabou Hall

St. Margaret Catholic, West Bay Road CELTIC WALK STORYTELLING TOUR 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm Scotsville School of Crafts, Baile nan Gàidheal / Scotsville St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Highland Village, Iona

Sydney Mines 10:00 am - 12:00 pm • donation 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm 10:30 am - 12:30 pm • $25; reservations required Take a two-hour stroll along the South West Margaree River. Hosts will share See page 61 for full description songs and discuss aspects of local Gaelic culture and history. CULTURAL EXPERIENCES CULTURAL EXPERIENCES

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CBC MAINSTREET RECORDED LIVE CELTIC CONVERSATIONS MI’KMAW FOOD Knox Presbyterian Church, Baddeck McConnell Library, Sydney EXHIBITION

Chapel Island Wharf, Potlotek 10:30 am - 12:30 pm • free 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm • free

1:00 pm - 6:00 pm • $25 See page 60 for full description See page 60 for full description Witness demonstrations of traditional THE BADDECK FARMERS’ THE ALEXANDER GRAHAM cooking techniques on the shoreline MARKET BELL SERIES overlooking Chapel Island. Take part, Masonic Hall, Baddeck Alexander Graham Bell National Historic ask questions, and help prepare your

am pm free Site, Baddeck own meal. 11:00 - 2:00 • contact: Noelle Doucette • 902-535-3160 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm • museum charges apply Find fresh-made food and locally grown [email protected] produce from Cape Breton and Nova See page 61 for full description hosted by Potlotek Education Scotia. Cape Breton artisans sell their wares in a family-friendly venue. LAKESIDE IMPRESSIONS HEATHER RANKIN REMEMBERS

hosted by Baddeck and Area Community ART AND CRAFT EXHIBIT An Drochaid: Mabou Gaelic & Market Scotsville School of Crafts, Scotsville Historical Society, Mabou

1:00 pm - 3:00 pm • donation 2:00 pm • $10 LUNCH CEILIDH Celtic Music Interpretive See page 60 for full description Heather Rankin recalls her early days Centre, Judique growing up in Mabou; her family,

friends, school days and musical 11:00 am - 2:45 pm • $6; menu pricing TRADITIONAL JAM SESSIONS Colaisde na Gàidhlig / inspiration. Today’s artists are Kenneth MacKenzie, The Gaelic College, St. Ann’s contact: Margie Beaton • 902-945-2790 J.J. Chaisson, Allan Dewar and more. [email protected] 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm • free See page 61 for full description hosted by Mabou Gaelic & Historical Society Bring along an instrument, a song, or 39 RURAL AND URBAN just yourself and get in on the fun of a FIDDLE FROM SCRATCH Inverness County Centre for the Arts, casual afternoon at the Gaelic College. Brooks Haven Seniors’ Recreation Inverness Bar services available. Centre, Prime Brook

contact: Margie Beaton • 902-295-3411 11:00 am - 5:00 pm • free 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm • $35 [email protected] See page 61 for full description hosted by Colaisde na Gàidhlig / Have you always wanted to try the The Gaelic College fiddle? Dwayne Côté will have fiddles on hand to lead you through the basics. HOT AND HEARTY LUNCH contact: Lisa Côté • 902-371-8948 Scotsville School of Crafts, WEAVING DEMONSTRATION Scotsville Scotsville School of Crafts, [email protected]

Scotsville hosted by Brooks Haven Seniors’ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm • $10 Recreation Centre 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm • donation Enjoy a hearty soup made from fresh, locally-grown ingredients, biscuits, tea See page 61 for full description MILLING FROLIC or coffee, and home-baked local apple Baile nan Gàidheal / crumble with ice cream for dessert. BLACKSMITHING WORKSHOP Highland Village, Iona

contact: Verna MacMillan • 902-258-2278 The LeNoir Forge Museum, Arichat 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm • museum charges apply [email protected] 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm • adults $65; youth hosted by Lake Ainslie Weavers & $30 includes materials See page 61 for full description Craft Guild Visit one of the oldest stone buildings LEARN TO FLY FISH ACADIAN KITCHEN PARTY on the Island, learn about the art of The Old Miller Trout Farm, Le Gabriel Family Restaurant, blacksmithing and produce a forge piece Margaree Forks

Chéticamp to take home. Class sizes are limited to 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm • donation four participants. Pre-registration is 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm • menu pricing required. Learn casting and fly-fishing tech- See page 60 for full description contact: Susan Marchand-Terrio niques from experienced fly fishers and 902-226-9364 practice on the ponds of the trout farm. [email protected] contact: Brittany Polley • 902-248-2555 hosted by Isle Madame Historical Society [email protected] hosted by Margaree Salmon Association CULTURAL EXPERIENCES

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CAPE NORTH SQUARE DANCE LOBSTER AND CRAB SUPPER ANNUAL SALMON DINNER SET & TRADITIONAL SKILLS St. Andrew’s Parish Hall, St. Mary’s Parish Hall (Mabou Hall), DEMONSTRATIONS Neil’s Harbour Mabou North Highlands Community Museum, 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm • $30 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm • $27 Cape North

Enjoy a locally-harvested lobster and Baked salmon, white sauce, mashed 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm • $5; $10 per family half a crab, served with potato salad, potatoes, vegetables, coleslaw, tea or Drop in to the museum and culture coleslaw, roll, beverage, and dessert. coffee, and choice of dessert. Ham centre for an opportunity to join in contact: Dave Donovan • 902-336-2546 dinner also available. the Cape North set, the square dance [email protected] contact: Dianne Cox • 902-945-2031 pattern for this region of Cape Breton, hosted by Neil’s Harbour / New Haven [email protected] and check out a variety of heritage skills Development Association hosted by Mabou Hall (St. Mary’s Parish) demonstrations. contact: Mike Gorey • 902-383-2579 MARAG, NEEPS AND TATTIES CHOWDER CHOICES [email protected] St. Andrew’s Presbyterian West Bay Road Fire Hall, hosted by North Highlands Community Church North River, North River West Bay Road Organization 4:30 pm • $18 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm • $16

TRADITIONAL CHÉTICAMP Marag is a homemade white pudding Enjoy your choice of either fish chow-

SQUARE SET and is served with potato and turnip. der, seafood chowder (with shellfish), Centre de la Mi-Carême, Grand Étang Homemade biscuits, tea or coffee, and or corn chowder, served with fresh Harbour dessert is also included. rolls, dessert, and tea or coffee. 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm • $10 contact: Janet Dauphney • 902-929-2205 contact: Irene MacDonald [email protected] 902-625-2596 • [email protected] Come spend an afternoon dancing with hosted by St. Andrew’s Presbyterian hosted by West Bay Road Ladies Auxiliary musicians, a professional teacher to North River help guide you through the steps, and KITCHEN RACKETS JAM SESSION 40 lots of laughs. No prior dance training ROAST BEEF DINNER Bras d’Or Lakes Inn, St. Peter’s necessary. IN LOUISBOURG contact: 902-224-1016 Calvin Memorial Hall, Louisbourg 10:00 pm - 1:00 am [email protected] $3; free for jammers 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm • $18 hosted by Société Mi-Carême See page 60 for full description Enjoy home-cooked roast beef, mashed

OPEN MIC SESSIONS potatoes, fresh vegetables, rolls, tea or Bras d’Or Yacht Club, Baddeck coffee, and homemade pies.

contact: Caroline Pitcher 2:00 pm - 6:00 pm • donation Keep the festival [email protected] See page 61 for full description hosted by UCW, First United Church, spirit alive after Louisbourg DANCE STYLES the concert...

PRESENTATION TOP OF THE ISLAND Celtic Music Interpretive Centre, TRADITIONAL Judique SEAFOOD SUPPER Bay St. Lawrence Community Centre, 3:00 pm • donation Bay St. Lawrence

Sabra MacGillivray will present and 4:30 pm - 6:30 pm • $35 demonstrate the varying styles of dance in Celtic music including Cape Breton Enjoy a three-course meal featuring and Irish Step dance, Highland Dance, locally-sourced ingredients. Lobster and more. Joined by musical friends. salad boats, followed by snow crab pot- Restaurant and bar open. pie loaded with veggies and topped with contact: Celtic Music Interpretive Centre flaky pastry, garden salad, string beans, 902-787-2708 homemade dessert, and tea or coffee. [email protected] contact: Amy MacKinnon hosted by Celtic Music Interpretive Centre [email protected] hosted by Bay St. Lawrence Community Centre 11pm nightly at the Gaelic College CULTURAL EXPERIENCES CONCERTS

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GUITAR SUMMIT THE PIPERS’ PUB J.P. Cormier John & Cailean MacLean Beppe Gambetta Finlay MacDonald & Chris Stout J.J. Chaisson Matt MacIsaac & Mac Morin Jake Lauzon James MacKenzie & Calum MacCrimmon Judique Community Centre, Judique • 7:30 pm • $35 Inverary Resort - MacAulay Conference Centre, Baddeck Since its introduction in 1997, the Guitar 7:30 pm • $35 Summit has become a staple of the Celtic Colours lineup, and as long as there’s The pipers are on the loose at the pub 41 been a Guitar Summit—whether it’s tonight and with this collection of Cape called Highland Guitar, Celtic Guitar or Breton and Scottish pipers, it’s sure just plain old Guitar—Cape Breton’s to be a lively time. John MacLean was J.P. Cormier has always spearheaded born into a family of tradition bearers it. One of the most popular concerts in on Cape Breton and is descended from a festival that boasts so many must- a long line of pipers, fiddlers and step see events, the Guitar Summit always dancers. A three-time Atlantic Canadian delivers dazzling results from the stage, Champion, John never lost sight of regardless of whether you recognize the the music that was more “real” to names on the marquee or not. Although him, the music that was played at the J.J. Chaisson may be more familiar as a dances and house ceilidhs, with that fiddler from P.E.I.’s first family of fiddle, unmistakable blas na Gaidhlig (sound J.P. introduced him as “one of the finest of Gaelic). He will be accompanied pickers of Celtic fiddle tunes you’re ever by his son Cailean on guitar. Always going to find” during the 2014 version, respectful of the tradition, but also which, of course, proved to be true. taking the instrument in exciting They will be joined by award-winning new directions, Finlay MacDonald and accomplished young guitar picker has blazed a trail as one of Scotland’s Jake Lauzon from Ontario, and Beppe finest exponents of contemporary Gambetta, an Italian guitarist whose and traditional piping. His duo with passion for acoustic guitar has led to Shetland fiddler Chris Stout promises to performing and recording with Celtic take us on a wonderful musical journey. guitar master Tony McManus and Matt MacIsaac, who plays pipes with sharing festival and concert stages with Beòlach, will step out into the spotlight J.P. Cormier. tonight with bandmate Mac Morin on hosted by piano, as will pipers James MacKenzie Judique Community Centre Development and Calum MacCrimmon from Association Breabach. Get cozy by the fire tonight at the beautiful Inverary Inn. Nearby Meal: Haddock Dinner Page 46 19 & Over; Photo ID required CONCERTS

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THE WATERS OF A FULL SLATE WOMEN IONA: CLADAICHEAN Saltfishforty OF SONG SHANNDRAIDH Nic Gareiss Laura Smith & Mairi Campbell Gillian Boucher & Bob McNeill & Kim Dunn Aaron Collis Fàrsan Lucy MacNeil & Emilia Bartellas Gu Smior & Robert Durando Paul Cranford & Boyd MacNeil Malagawatch Church, Highland & Mario Colosimo Kaia Kater Village, Iona • 7:30 pm • $30 & Paul MacDonald United Protestant Church of Sydney When the Gaels arrived from Scotland, L’Ardoise Community Centre, River, Sydney River • 7:30 pm • $35/30 42 they brought their language, music L’Ardoise • 7:30 pm • $30 and culture. The community of Iona is Ballads, lullabies, protest songs, pop one of the places they settled. Rich in L’Ardoise (pronounced “Lordways” songs and anthems—they all have their Gaelic heritage, the area has maintained locally) is a small fishing village that lies place in the choir, to paraphrase a popular close ties to the roots of its settlers, along the rugged and beautiful south- children’s song. Songs give voice to love, and The Highland Village has played western Acadian coast of Cape Breton. loss, struggle, and happiness. They reflect an important role in maintaining that It was settled by Acadians centuries ago the times we live in, telling stories of the cultural heritage. There are few places who called their new home L’Ardoise, land and the people who inhabit it. Songs more inspiring for a performance rooted which means “slate”, for the large can unite people and divide them, make in Gaelic culture and tradition than this deposits of rock and slate they found them laugh and cry, bring memories to little church on the hill, where you can along the shore. It’s a long drive to get life and open the floodgates of emotion. see all four counties of Cape Breton. It there, but beautiful with an ocean view Songs are written and learned, passed was the waters of Iona that brought the around every turn. So take your time and down and passed around, shared and settlers to this site and we pay homage enjoy the drive before settling in to a full coveted, but most importantly, songs are to that history in tonight’s Gaelic- slate of performances by artists from sung. Tonight we have three powerful focussed concert. Fiddler and dancer the Orkney Islands, Newfoundland and and distinctive voices in Canadian-born Gillian Boucher’s grandfather was a Labrador, Scotland, the U.S. and Cape Granadian singer-songwriter Kaia Kater, well-known Gaelic singer and she has Breton. Tonight’s concert features three Lucy MacNeil of Cape Breton’s award- continued the tradition with her playing. past Artists in Residence; singing and winning Barra MacNeils, and cherished Fàrsan unites song, dance and music dancing; and tunes on fiddle, accordion, Canadian singer-songwriter Laura Smith from the Gaelic traditions of Scotland and guitar—a little something for coming together to raise their voices in and North America while Gu Smior everyone, really. Make a day of it and song. The United Protestant Church in presents Gaelic singer, songwriter, poet stop in the nearby Mi’maq community Sydney River is a beautiful setting for Lewis MacKinnon and Gaelic singer, of Potlotek on the way for a traditional these three celebrated women of song. concertina player and dancer Hannah meal and short plays presented by area Krebs in a dynamic new duo. hosted by students. Men’s Brotherhood – United Protestant hosted by Nova Scotia Highland Village Society hosted by L’Ardoise Men’s Club Church of Sydney River

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THE HILLS ON THE ARE ALIVE BEAUTIFUL COAST Scott Macmillan The Outside Track & James MacLean Mairi Rankin & Eric Wright April Verch Band Matthew Byrne Pierre Chartrand NicNeil & Chartrand Babineau Cape Breton Highlands Academy, St. Peter’s Parish, Belle Côte • 7:30 pm • $30/25 Ingonish • 7:30 pm • $30 It’s been three years since The Outside The St. Peter’s Parish Church in Track played Celtic Colours and they’re 43 Ingonish has been witness to many just raring to get back at it. Since we’ve memorable moments in its more than seen them last, the band has released 100-year history. And memories are their fifth album, toured the U.K., U.S., sure to be made again tonight in this Canada, Germany, and Switzerland, and beautiful old church as the surrounding picked up a couple more awards along hills of the Cape Breton Highlands come the way. In the meantime, fiddler Mairi to life with the sounds of fiddle tunes Rankin teamed up with cello player Eric and dancing feet, guitar-picking, and Wright from The Fretless, and made a all-around good times. The Hills Are record. They debuted their duo here at Alive will showcase a variety of fiddle Celtic Colours last year and since both of and dance styles from the Ottawa Valley their bands are playing the Festival this and Québécois traditions, and tunes year, it’s a happy coincidence to be able with Cape Breton, Irish, Scottish, old- to have them back as a duo as well. time American and Appalachian roots. It’s always a pleasure to welcome Featuring the April Verch Band from two-time Canadian Folk Music Award the Ottawa Valley, Québécois dancer winner for Traditional Recording of Watch a different and choreographer Pierre Chartrand the Year (2015, 2018), singer Matthew with the exciting young duo Chartrand Byrne. Storytelling through song is a concert each night Babineau, and 2018 “Big Sampie” fundamental duty of traditional music award-winning Cape Breton guitarist and Matthew does this brilliantly, both James MacLean, performing with his in his own concerts and recordings and of the Festival mentor Scott Macmillan, this concert with Newfoundland traditional band the will be one of those rare occassions Dardanelles. NicNeil, four sisters from Tune in at when Cape Breton’s spectacular scenery Mabou Harbour, will bring their love for celtic-colours.com is overshadowed. Gaelic language, dance and music up the coast to Belle Côte for tonight’s concert. hosted by St. Peter’s Parish CWL hosted by Margaree Area Development Association Brought to Nearby Meal: Hot Turkey Dinner Nearby Meal: Dine with the you by: Page 46 Mi-Carêmes Page 46 CULTURAL EXPERIENCES

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LIGHTHOUSE BREAKFAST GUIDED HIKE IN THE Get a firsthand look at the living tra- Cape North Fire Hall, Cape North NATIONAL PARK: FRANEY TRAIL ditions of the Nova Scotia Gaels with fun

Franey Trailhead, Ingonish and interactive cultural demonstrations. 8:30 am - 12:30 pm • $10 contact 10:00 am • free with park pass : Gail Montgomery • 902-295-3411 Start your day with a breakfast sandwich, ext 226 • [email protected] fruit, and a hot cup of coffee or tea. No Join Park staff for a guided hike of hosted by Colaisde na Gàidhlig / The Gaelic reservations required. Take-out available. Franey Mountain, a steep climb through College contact: Andrea Fitzgerald Acadian and boreal forest to panoramic [email protected] views of the Clyburn River valley and the SQUARE DANCE WORKSHOP hosted by St. Paul Island Historical Society Atlantic Ocean. 2-3 hours, 7.4 km loop, Little Narrows Presbyterian 95-430 metre elevation. Church, Little Narrows

VENDOR VILLAGE contact: Visitor Services • 902-224-2306 10:30 am - 12:00 pm • $12 Every Woman’s Centre, Sydney [email protected]

hosted by Cape Breton Highlands Join instructor Anita MacDonald as she 9:00 am - 12:00 pm • free National Park guides you through the figures common Drop in to check out this show and in Victoria County square dances. Lunch sale of local artists’ work. There will be COME PLAY SPOONS WITH US to follow for $10 and then show your leather craft, jewelry, clothing, artwork La Place des arts Père Anselme steps on the Little Narrows Ferry from and more. Chiasson, Chéticamp 1:45–2:30pm.

contact: Wanda Earhart • 902-567-1212 contact 10:00 am & 1:00 pm • $20 : Anita MacDonald • 902-756-2731 [email protected] [email protected] hosted by Every Woman’s Centre See page 60 for full description hosted by Little Narrows Development Association BUDDY MACMASTER FIDDLE CAMP EXHIBIT: TEN645

Celtic Music Interpretive Centre, Cape Breton Centre for Craft and CBC MAINSTREET RECORDED LIVE Judique Design, Sydney Knox Presbyterian Church, Baddeck

44 9:00 am - 3:00 pm • $150/day or 10:00 am - 4:00 pm • free 10:30 am - 12:30 pm • free

$500/week. pre-registration required See page 60 for full description See page 60 for full description Today’s instructors are Gabrielle MacLellan and Kolten MacDonell. ANNUAL QUILT SHOW AND SALE PORT HAWKESBURY See page 60 for full description Belle Côte Community Centre, CEILIDH MARKET Belle Côte Port Hawkesbury Civic Centre, Port

INTERACTIVE EXHIBIT Hawkesbury 10:00 am - 6:00 pm • by donation ROOM TOUR 11:00 am - 2:00 pm • free Celtic Music Interpretive Centre, Judique A delightful show of traditional and

contemporary quilts, wall hangings, and Celebrate the fall harvest and check out 9:00 am - 5:00 pm • $5 household items, much of which will the variety of locally-grown and See page 60 for full description be for sale. harvested foods, baked goods, and contact: Bea Tilsley • 902-258-3048 artisan products. DOORS OPEN FOR CHURCHES [email protected] hosted by Port Hawkesbury Ceilidh Market

Free Admission hosted by Celtic Quilt Guild LUNCH CEILIDH St. Margaret of Scotland, EVELINE KLAMT EXHIBIT Celtic Music Interpretive St. Margaret’s Village J. Franklin Wright Gallery at Port Centre, Judique 10:00 am - 2:00 pm

Hawkesbury Civic Centre, 11:00 am - 2:45 pm • $6; menu pricing St. Joseph Parish, North Sydney Port Hawkesbury 10:00 am - 3:00 pm Today’s artists are Gabrielle MacLellan,

10:00 am - 8:00 pm • free Kolten MacDonell, Allan Dewar and St. John’s Anglican, Ingonish more. 10:00 am - 3:00 pm See page 60 for full description See page 61 for full description Ephraim Scott Presbyterian Church, CULTURAL DEMONSTRATIONS South Haven Colaisde na Gàidhlig / RURAL AND URBAN 11:00 am - 3:00 pm The Gaelic College, St. Ann’s Inverness County Centre for the Arts, Sacred Heart, Johnstown Inverness 10:30 am - 12:00 pm • $5 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm 11:00 am - 5:00 pm • free

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MARGAREE LUNCHEON AUTUMN WATERCOLOUR STEPPIN’ WITH THE LADIES St. Patrick’s Parish Hall, North East WORKSHOP Every Woman’s Centre, Sydney

Margaree Salty Rose’s and the Periwinkle Café, 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm • $10 Ingonish 11:30 am - 1:00 pm • $10 Learn Cape Breton style step dancing 12:30 pm - 4:00 pm Enjoy hot, homemade soup with a bis- $35 includes materials from instructor Kelly MacArthur. cuit and choose from a variety of sweets. contact: Wanda Earhart • 902-567-1212 contact: Sheila Fortune • 902-248-2516 Explore rendering the beautiful coast of [email protected] hosted by St. Patricks’ C.W.L North Ingonish with watercolour paint- hosted by Every Woman’s Centre ing led by artist Lynda Lou MacIntyre. contact: Caitlyn Purcell • 902-202-2431 LUNCH, MUSIC, HIKE LAKESIDE IMPRESSIONS St. Ann’s Bay United Church, [email protected] ART AND CRAFT EXHIBIT Indian Brook hosted by Cape Breton Centre for Craft Scotsville School of Crafts, Scotsville and Design 12:00 pm • $12 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm • donation

Enjoy live music and lunch featuring a RAG RUG HOOKING See page 60 for full description

variety of soups (including a vegetarian DEMONSTRATION Scotsville School of Crafts, Scotsville option), rolls, biscuits, tea or coffee, and TRADITIONAL JAM SESSIONS Colaisde na Gàidhlig / dessert. At 1 pm take a guided 90-min- 1:00 pm • donation ute hike along a wooded trail. The Gaelic College, St. Ann’s contact Join local fibre artist Christine Hayes for : Marion Thompson 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm • free 902-929-2270 • [email protected] a demonstration of Rag Rug hooking hosted by St. Ann’s Bay United Church and view a showcase of her completed Bring along an instrument, a song, or works. just yourself and get in on the fun of a ACADIAN KITCHEN PARTY contact: Verna MacMillan • 902-258-2278 casual afternoon at the Gaelic College. Frog Pond Café, Chéticamp [email protected] Bar services available.

hosted by Lake Ainslie Weavers & Craft Guild contact: Margie Beaton • 902-295-3411 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm • menu pricing 45 [email protected] See page 60 for full description WOODEN MI’KMAQ CRAFT hosted by Colaisde na Gàidhlig /

WORKSHOP The Gaelic College Membertou Heritage Park, Membertou CELTIC CONVERSATIONS BIG SQUARE DANCE IN McConnell Library, Sydney 1:00 pm • $25 LITTLE NARROWS 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm • free Come learn to make your own Little Narrows Ferry, Little Narrows hand-crafted ash wooden flower or bas- See page 60 for full description 1:45 pm - 2:30 pm • free ket and listen to the stories of our past. contact: Jeff Ward • 902-567-5333 For this special event, Anita MacDonald LITTLE NARROWS LUNCHEON [email protected] will lead a square dance on board the Little Narrows Presbyterian hosted by Membertou Heritage Park ferry. The Ferry Captain will park the Church, Little Narrows Aboriginal Culture Centre vessel on the Little Narrows side of the 12:15 pm - 1:30 pm • $10 channel.

THE ALEXANDER GRAHAM Enjoy home-made soup with local contact: Anita MacDonald • 902-756-2731 BELL SERIES ingredients, biscuits, and baked dessert. [email protected] Alexander Graham Bell National Historic Come early for the Square Dance Work- hosted by Little Narrows Development Site, Baddeck Association shop ($12 at 10:30am) or stay for the Big Square Dance in Little Narrows right on 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm • museum charges apply GAELIC SONG WORKSHOP the ferry (free at 1:45pm). See page 61 for full description AND MILLING FROLIC contact: Anita MacDonald • 902-756-2731 Scotsville School of Crafts, Scotsville [email protected] WEAVING DEMONSTRATION hosted by Little Narrows Development 2:00 pm • $10 Scotsville School of Crafts, Association Scotsville This workshop explores Gaelic songs from the 1600s to modern times. We’ll 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm • donation also gather around the milling table for a See page 61 for full description real hands-on session. contact: Verna MacMillan • 902-258-2278 [email protected] hosted by Lake Ainslie Weavers & Craft Guild CULTURAL EXPERIENCES

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FIDDLE FROM SCRATCH contact: Celtic Music Interpretive Centre MI’KMAQ LEGENDS DINNER Brooks Haven Seniors’ 902-787-2708 • [email protected] Mi’kmawey School, Potlotek

Recreation Centre, Prime Brook hosted by Celtic Music Interpretive Centre 5:00 pm • $35

2:00 pm - 3:00 pm • $35 CBU ALL AGES SQUARE DANCE Young students will perform two short Have you always wanted to try the Cape Breton University, Sydney plays, Muin and The Seven Hunters and fiddle? Dwayne Côté will have fiddles on Sweet Water Maiden, and a special 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm • free hand to lead you through the basics. performance of the song “Running contact: Lisa Côté • 902-371-8948 This family-friendly dance requires no Bear” translated in Mi’kmaw. [email protected] prior experience as we will have a caller Traditional Mi’kmaw meal to follow. hosted by Brooks Haven Seniors’ on hand to guide you through the steps. contact: Noelle Doucette • 902-535-3160 Recreation Centre contact: Heather Sparling • 902-563-1242 [email protected] [email protected] hosted by Potlotek Education TRADITIONAL CÉILIDH hosted by Cape Breton University Baile nan Gàidheal / IONA ROAST PORK DINNER Highland Village, Iona DINE WITH THE MI-CARÊMES Grandona Royal Canadian Legion

Centre de la Mi-Carême, Branch 124, Iona 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm • museum charges apply Grand Étang Harbour 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm • $18

Join us for a traditional céilidh as we 4:30 pm - 7:00 pm • $35 share stories, songs and music. Enjoy a delicious roast pork dinner with Refreshments will be served. Enjoy a traditional Acadian vegetable mashed potatoes, gravy, tea or coffee, contact: Baile nan Gàidheal / Highland soup with locally-made bread, green and dessert. Village • 902-725-2272 salad, fish cakes, and bread pudding contact: Baile nan Gàidheal / Highland hosted by Baile nan Gàidheal / with butter sauce. Village • 902-725-2272 Highland Village contact: Société Mi-Carême hosted by Royal Canadian Legion Branch 902-224-1016 • [email protected] 124 Grandona OUR RIVER, OUR PEOPLE, hosted by Société Mi-Carême 46 OUR STORIES APPLE GLAZED ROAST Margaree Meeting Place, HADDOCK DINNER PORK DINNER Margaree Forks Celtic Music Interpretive United Protestant Church of Sydney Centre, Judique River, Sydney River 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm • donation

4:30 pm - 7:00 pm • $16 / menu prices 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm • $18 Share in a storytelling afternoon and learn about our river and the people who Enjoy a pan-fried haddock dinner with Apple Glazed Roast Pork served with have lived along the Margaree Valley mashed potatoes, vegetables, dessert, mashed potatoes, peas, turnip, carrots, through the years. and tea or coffee for $16. Other choices juice, rolls, home-made pies, and tea or contact: Eileen Coady • 902-248-2951 at menu prices. Music by Shelly coffee. [email protected] Campbell and Allan Dewar. contact: Laurie Johnston • 902-562-4145 hosted by Margaree Area Development No reservations. hosted by Men’s Brotherhood of Sydney Association contact: Celtic Music Interpretive Centre River United 902-787-2708 • [email protected] OPEN MIC SESSIONS hosted by Celtic Music Interpretive Centre INGONISH JAM SESSION Bras d’Or Yacht Club, Baddeck Keltic Lodge Resort, Ingonish

HOT TURKEY DINNER 2:00 pm - 6:00 pm • donation 10:00 pm - 12:30 am $10; free for

Ingonish Fire Hall and Community jammers; $8 with ticket stub from the See page 61 for full description Centre, Ingonish hills are alive concert

5:00 pm • $15 Players and listeners alike enjoy this TUNES & TALK WITH J.P. CORMIER Celtic Music Interpretive Centre, Enjoy roast turkey with gravy, potatoes, after-the-concert jam session. Judique vegetables, dressing, cranberry sauce, contact: Donald Jardine • 902-285-4119 tea, coffee, and dessert. No reservations. [email protected] 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm • donation First come, first served. hosted by Ingonish Development Society Multi-award winning folk artist J.P. contact: Marilyn MacLean • 902-285-2434 Cormier is a seasoned instrumentalist, [email protected] KITCHEN RACKETS JAM SESSION Bras d’Or Lakes Inn, St. Peter’s singer, songwriter, and master of any- or Audrey Budge • 902-285-2441 thing with strings. J.P. will perform and [email protected] 10:00 pm - 1:00 am •$3; free for jammers answer audience questions. hosted by United Church Women Ingonish See page 60 for full description CULTURAL EXPERIENCES CONCERTS

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MATINEE ON MUSIC OF THE OLD SOULS THE MIRA NIGHT: MUSIQUE The Dardanelles The Outside Track DE LA NUIT Kaia Kater Nic Gareiss John & Cailean MacLean Laura Smith & Mairi Campbell Pierre Chartrand Saltfishforty Gillian Boucher & Chartrand Babineau J.J. Chaisson & Darla MacPhee & Bob McNeill & Rémi Arsenault Marion Bridge Recreation Centre, Sheena & Tessa Boucher Marion Bridge • 2:00 pm • $30 Nicole LeBlanc Maxim & Gervais Cormier Inverness Education Centre / Academy, Warm hospitality, good music and good Gu Smior Inverness • 7:30 pm • $30/25 times have always been the way along 47 Cape Breton’s famous Mira River, where Fortress of Louisbourg National Old souls are thought to be wise beyond there is a strong tradition of sharing Historic Site, Louisbourg their years, having an interest in songs and playing tunes. The Outside 5:30 pm • $150 things that others their age don’t really Track heads up this lively afternoon of appreciate. In that sense, it is fitting to tunes, songs and dance with their love of It’s Friday night in the French fortress have these particular artists performing traditional music and a commitment to town of Louisbourg, in the middle of in a concert called “Old Souls”. There is creating new music on this foundation. the 18th century. Music and laughter a depth of soul, character and experience John MacLean is widely recognized spills out into the streets as villagers that comes out in their performance. as one of the finest traditional/Gaelic gather at pubs, restaurants and taverns. Despite their relative youth, they have style pipers in the world today. This Conversation mingles with music, over immersed themselves in traditional and older style was played at house ceilidhs a meal served on pewter dishes. Singing old-time musical styles. As most Cape and for dancing, generations ago. John and laughter drifts through the open Breton musicians do, Gillian, Sheena, and will be accompanied on guitar by his window of the tavern on the corner Tessa Boucher started playing and step son, Cailean, who has taken a keen while lively tunes draw the dancers to dancing as young kids. The Dardanelles, interest in the repertoire and Gaelic fill the floor in the hall. Experience it from Newfoundland, established style of the great masters of former all for yourself tonight at the Fortress themselves as a Trad tour-de-force when generations. Chartrand Babineau is a of Louisbourg National Historic Site. they were just barely into their twenties. young Québécois duo brought together This one-of-a-kind night on the town Banjo-playing singer and songwriter Kaia by a common passion for traditional starts with an 18th century meal, then Kater’s first recording—released right music from Québec as well as Scotland carries on, into the cobblestone streets out of high school in 2013—was called Old and Ireland—in particular, music for for music, dancing and good times. As Souls. Nic Gareiss’ interest in traditional dancing. They will accompany renowned you travel from one reconstructed stone dance styles brought him together with Québécois dancer Pierre Chartrand. building to another, you’ll find music Scottish fiddler Mairi Campbell to further This afternoon’s matinee gives you everywhere—songs in French, English explore the percussive dance he is best the opportunity to take in some of the and Gaelic, and tunes for toe-tapping known for. beautiful scenery along the way. and dancing. Bring comfy shoes and a hosted by hosted by sweater. Marion Bridge Community Council Inverness Academy Student Council hosted by Fortress Louisbourg Association Nearby Meal: Hearty Homemade Nearby Meal: Roast Beef Dinner at 19 & Over; Photo ID required Soup Page 50 the Arts Centre Page 51 CONCERTS

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OFF THE CHARTS COAL TOWN PLAYING IT Heather Rankin CEILIDH BY EAR Beòlach J.P. Cormier & Beppe Gambetta Kyle & Sheumas MacNeil Cape Breton Orchestra & Jake Lauzon & Rosie MacKenzie

Joan Harriss Cruise Pavilion, Breabach Mary Jane Lamond Sydney • 7:30 pm • $50/45/40 Brent Aucoin & Leanne Aucoin & Sarah MacInnis & Joël Chiasson Stewart MacNeil Ask any musician today, and one of & Kimberley Fraser their dreams is likely to perform with St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Leon Dubinsky a full orchestra accompanying their Sydney Mines • 7:30 pm • $30 songs, tunes, and arrangements. Here & Jordan Musycsyn 48 at Celtic Colours, we like to make Once a major industry in Sydney Mines, dreams come true. Tonight’s very coal mining has a 250-year history in Greenwood United Church, special concert features beloved Cape this community, where the Princess Baddeck • 7:30 pm • $35 Breton songs and tunes from one of the Colliery was in continuous operation Island’s most exciting and innovative for 100 years until its closure in 1975. Cultural transmission is a process that traditional bands, arranged for and We’re in for a mighty ceilidh when used to occur more organically than it accentuated by the strings, woodwinds, these players get together in the former does these days, when it’s easier than brass and percussion of the Cape Breton coal town tonight. The fingers will be ever to learn an instrument from a variety Orchestra. Beòlach has been working flying with guitar virtuosos J.P. Cormier, of sources. But in the culturally rich on a new album to coincide with their Beppe Gambetta and Jake Lauzon environment of traditional music, you spot as Artists in Residence. With bringing a world of Celtic, bluegrass, need to develop exquisite precision and their haunting, layered slow airs and and Appalachian styles to the stage at St. flourish, and the grounding and courage dynamic tunes and arrangements, it Andrew’s Presbyterian Church. Fiddlers to make your sound your own. Cue the seemed only fitting to pair them with Brent and Leanne Aucoin come from mentors, and a learning opportunity for our Island’s orchestra, celebrating its Sydney Mines, but their family roots both generations of well-established 25th anniversary this year. We heard are in the Chéticamp area, where Brent players. The vision for this show is to the effect an orchestra can have on was heavily influenced by the legendary create professional mentorships that will traditional Cape Breton tunes when playing of Arthur Muise. Piano player build beyond this evening’s performance. they played the Celtic Pops concert in Joël Chiasson completes the Chéticamp It’s vital that various facets of the culture 2003. Of course, there’s nothing like an connection for some energetic dance are enriched, as we have seen in the orchestra to bring out the emotion in a tunes. With an arsenal of fiddle, transmission of Gaelic song, growth in song. And there’s nothing like a Rankin bagpipes, guitar, dance and Gaelic song, fiddle tune and piano accompaniment, song to bring out the emotion in a Cape award-winning Scottish group Breabach and the important singer-songwriting Breton crowd. With an angelic voice rounds out this musical visit of players tradition that captures our local stories full of lilt and brilliant clarity, Heather from Cape Breton, Ontario, Italy and as a snapshot in time. As the title Rankin will sing some well-loved Scotland. suggests, learning by ear is one of the best Rankin Family hits and songs from conduits… let’s plant the seeds today for hosted by St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church her album We Walk As One. Welcome everyone’s benefit tomorrow!

the weekend at the Joan Harriss Cruise hosted by Greenwood United Church Council Pavilion with a show you won’t soon Nearby Meal: Classic Fish and Chips forget. Talk about off the charts! Page 51 CONCERTS CONCERTS & CULTURAL EXPERIENCES

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MI’KMAQ MEDICINE WALK SHARING LEGENDS Membertou Trade & AND STORYTELLING Convention Centre, Membertou Membertou Heritage Park , Membertou

9:00 am & 1:00 pm • $35 10:00 am & 2:00 pm • $10

Choose from either 9am-12pm or Taking place at both 10am and 2pm, 1pm-4pm for your tour, please book in drop in to listen to the story of the advance as there are only 20 spots per origins and legends of the Mi’kmaq. tour. You will learn traditional practices Includes tea with blueberry cake and/ while walking through a wooded trail or Luskinikn. and finish with a dreamcatcher contact: Jeff Ward • 902-567-5333 workshop and the baking of [email protected] luskinikn bread. hosted by Membertou Heritage Park Aboriginal Culture Centre LIVELY IN contact: David Meuse 902-564-6466 ext 5025 / 902-574-7415 LOUISDALE hosted by Destination Membertou COME PLAY SPOONS WITH US

Fàrsan La Place des arts Père Anselme BUDDY MACMASTER Chiasson, Chéticamp

Roger Stone FIDDLE CAMP 10:00 am & 1:00 pm • $20 The Broussards Celtic Music Interpretive Centre, Judique See page 60 for full description

Louisdale Lions Club, 9:00 am - 3:00 pm $150/day or Louisdale • 7:30 pm • $30 HOW TO PRESERVE YOUR $500/week FAMILY TREASURES Powered by four voices in a new Today’s instructors are Andrea Beaton Baile nan Gàidheal / Highland Village, and Anita MacDonald. Pre-registration Iona generation of traditional musicians, Fàrsan blends multiple facets of the required. 10:00 am - 12:00 pm $100 includes 49 Gaelic traditions of Scotland and North See page 60 for full description materials

America in their presentation. Song, Have you ever wondered what to do instrumental and dance traditions are INTERACTIVE EXHIBIT with those boxes of family treasures often viewed as three separate worlds, ROOM TOUR such photos, papers and objects? This but Fàrsan challenges that notion, Celtic Music Interpretive Centre, Judique workshop shares some materials and bringing together the melodies of Gaelic 9:00 am - 5:00 pm • $5 methods to organize and preserve them songs and puirt-à-beul (mouth music) and includes a take-home kit with with their instrumental counterparts See page 60 for full description instructions. Space is limited, pre-reg- and interjecting rhythmic step dance GUIDED HIKE IN THE istration is required. seamlessly to the mix. Roger Stone was NATIONAL PARK: MICA HILL contact: Baile nan Gàidheal / Highland born and raised in Richmond County. Mica Hill Trailhead, South Harbour Village • 902-725-2272 Known for his folk and traditional style hosted by Baile nan Gàidheal / Highland of music, Roger is an exceptional multi- 10:00 am • free with park pass Village instrumentalist and a noted songwriter. Join Park staff for a guided hike of Mica The Broussards are a trio of teenage Hill, a gradual climb through Acadian ANNUAL QUILT SHOW siblings from Port Hawkesbury with and boreal forest to taiga barrens with AND SALE Irish and French ancestry who deeply panoramic views of the highland pla- Belle Côte Community Centre, embrace the music of the Scottish teau. 3-4 hours, 7.9 km return, 260-410 Belle Côte Gaels. Together, they form a powerful metre elevation. trio with a strong Celtic sound and 10:00 am - 4:00 pm • donation contact: Visitor Services • 902-224-2306 vintage style. Get lively in one of our [email protected] A delightful show of traditional and new festival venues tonight with tunes hosted by Cape Breton Highlands contemporary quilts, wall hangings, from the Broussards, Cape Breton and National Park and household items, much of which contemporary folk with Roger Stone, will be for sale. and a new take on Gaelic tradition with contact: Bea Tilsley • 902-258-3048 Fàrsan. [email protected] hosted by Louisdale Lions Club hosted by Celtic Quilt Guild

Nearby Meal: Irish Dinner Page 51 CULTURAL EXPERIENCES

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EXHIBIT: TEN645 BEHIND THE TUNES WITH THE ALEXANDER GRAHAM Cape Breton Centre for Craft DWAYNE CÔTÉ BELL SERIES and Design, Sydney Brooks Haven Seniors’ Recreation Alexander Graham Bell National Historic

Centre, Prime Brook Site, Baddeck 10:00 am - 4:00 pm • free

11:00 am - 12:00 pm • $15 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm • museum charges apply See page 60 for full description Renowned fiddler Dwayne Côté leads See page 61 for full description this discussion and demonstration EVELINE KLAMT EXHIBIT J. Franklin Wright Gallery at Port about tunes and music history. TRADITIONAL JAM SESSIONS Hawkesbury Civic Centre, contact: Lisa Côté • 902-371-8948 Colaisde na Gàidhlig / Port Hawkesbury [email protected] The Gaelic College, St. Ann’s hosted by Brooks Haven Seniors’ 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm • free 10:00 am - 8:00 pm • free Recreation Centre

See page 60 for full description Bring along an instrument, a song, or LUNCH CEILIDH just yourself and get in on the fun of a Celtic Music Interpretive casual afternoon at the Gaelic College. DOORS OPEN FOR CHURCHES Centre, Judique Bar services available. Free Admission contact: Margie Beaton • 902-295-3411 11:00 am - 2:45 pm • $6; menu pricing St. Columba Presbyterian Church, [email protected] Marion Bridge • 10:30 am - 2:00 pm Today’s artists are Andrea Beaton, Anita hosted by Colaisde na Gàidhlig / The Gaelic

MacDonald, Allan Dewar and more. St. Matthew Wesley United Church, College See page 61 for full description North Sydney • 11:00 am - 3:00 pm AM BREACAN BÒIDHEACH St. Patrick’s Catholic Church, Whiteside FÀSANTA: MARY’S BONNY RURAL AND URBAN 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm PLAID—NATURAL DYE WORKSHOP Inverness County Centre for the Arts, Baile nan Gàidheal / Highland Village, St. Margaret of Scotland Catholic Inverness Iona 50 Church, Broad Cove • 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm 11:00 am - 5:00 pm • free 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm • $25

Trinity Anglican Church, Sydney Mines See page 61 for full description 2:00 pm - 7:00 pm Join us to learn about natural dyes and techniques used in the 19th century to ACADIAN KITCHEN PARTY St. John’s United Strathlorne, dye wool, and dip a few skeins of your Strathlorne • 3:00 pm - 6:00 pm Doryman Pub & Grill, Chéticamp own. Pre-registration is required. 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm • menu pricing contact: Baile nan Gàidheal / St. Matthew’s United Church, Inverness 3:00 pm - 6:00 pm Highland Village 902-725-2272 See page 60 for full description hosted by Baile nan Gàidheal / See page 60 for full description Highland Village HEARTY HOME-MADE SOUP CULTURAL DEMONSTRATIONS Mira Seniors & Pensioners Centre, WEAVING DEMONSTRATION Colaisde na Gàidhlig / Marion Bridge Scotsville School of Crafts, The Gaelic College, St. Ann’s 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm • $12 Scotsville

10:30 am - 12:00 pm • $5 Enjoy a hearty home-made soup with 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm • donation

tea biscuits, apple crisp with ice cream, Get a firsthand look at the living tra- See page 61 for full description ditions of the Nova Scotia Gaels with fun and tea or coffee. contact: Beth Matheson • 902-727-2325 and interactive cultural demonstrations. CAPE BRETON OATCAKE contact: Gail Montgomery • 902-295-3411 hosted by Mira Seniors & Pensioners MAKING DEMONSTRATION ext. 226 • [email protected] Scotsville School of Crafts, Scotsville

hosted by Colaisde na Gàidhlig / CELTIC CONVERSATIONS 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm • $25 The Gaelic College McConnell Library, Sydney

12:15 pm - 1:15 pm • free Oatcakes are quite popular on Cape CBC MAINSTREET RECORDED LIVE Breton. Join us for a walk through the Knox Presbyterian Church, Baddeck See page 60 for full description process of baking them, enjoy them

fresh from the oven, and receive a recipe. 10:30 am - 12:30 pm • free contact: Verna MacMillan • 902-258-2278 See page 60 for full description [email protected] hosted by Lake Ainslie Weavers & Craft Guild CULTURAL EXPERIENCES CULTURAL EXPERIENCES

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LAKESIDE IMPRESSIONS TRADITIONAL CHÉTICAMP POTLUCK SUPPER ART AND CRAFT EXHIBIT SQUARE SET Cranton Crossroads Community Scotsville School of Crafts, Scotsville Centre de la Mi-Carême, Grand Étang Centre, Margaree Center

Harbour 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm • donation 5:00 pm • adults $12; children under 12 $6

2:00 pm - 4:00 pm • $10 See page 60 for full description Enjoy a pot luck supper with a variety of Come spend an afternoon dancing with hot and cold dishes, rolls, biscuits, tea, WATERCOLOUR live music, a professional teacher to coffee or juice, and a wide selection of

PAINTING WORKSHOP guide you through the steps, and lots desserts. Scotsville School of Crafts, Scotsville contact: Arlene Ingraham • 902-248-2873 of laughs. No prior dance training 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm • $30 includes necessary. [email protected] materials contact: 902-224-1016 hosted by Cranton Crossroads Community

[email protected] Centre This workshop, led by local artist Barrie hosted by Société Mi-Carême Fraser, will include step-by-step in- CLASSIC FISH AND CHIPS struction on painting with watercolour. OPEN MIC SESSIONS John J. Nugent Firemen’s Centre, If weather permits it will be held “En Bras d’Or Yacht Club, Baddeck Sydney Mines Plein Air” (outdoors). contact: Verna MacMillan • 902-258-2278 2:00 pm - 6:00 pm • donation 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm • $15

[email protected] See page 61 for full description Enjoy classic beer-battered haddock hosted by Lake Ainslie Weavers & Craft served with fries, coleslaw, tea or coffee, Guild BEYOND THE PAGE: and dessert.

A CAPE BRETON READING contact: Eileen MacNeil • 902-371-0101 BOAT TOUR OF Inverness County Centre for the Arts, hosted by Community Cares CHAPEL ISLAND Inverness Chapel Island Wharf, Potlotek ROAST BEEF DINNER AT 3:00 pm • $10 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm • $60 THE ARTS CENTRE

The Cabot Trail Writers Festival is Inverness County Centre for the Arts, 51 Join us for a boat tour of historic Chapel delighted to welcome you to readings by Inverness Island, a sacred place for the Mi’kmaq four Cape Breton authors. community, with a stop for a meal on 5:30 pm • $25 contact: Rebecca Silver Slayter the island. [email protected] Enjoy a traditional roast beef dinner contact: Noelle Doucette • 902-535-3160 hosted by Cabot Trail Writers Festival Society with seasonal local vegetables, tea or [email protected] coffee, and dessert. hosted by Potlotek Education CELTIC MUSIC JAM SESSION contact: Elizabeth Whalley • 902-258-2533 Celtic Music Interpretive Centre, [email protected] GUIDED TOUR OF ATLANTIC Judique hosted by Inverness County Centre for the Arts MEMORIAL PARK SITE Atlantic Memorial Park, Sydney Mines 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm • $5; free for players KITCHEN RACKETS JAM SESSION 2:00 pm • donation Open jam session for all Celtic musicians Bras d’Or Lakes Inn, St. Peter’s and listeners. Bring your instrument and Come for a guided tour of the project site 10:00 pm - 1:00 am • $3; free for jammers join in, or drop in for a drink and a bite for the Atlantic Memorial Park. Over- to eat and just listen. See page 60 for full description looking the ocean, this area is steeped in contact: Celtic Music Interpretive Centre military history dating back to the late 902-787-2708 • [email protected] ADULT SQUARE DANCE IN 1800s. hosted by Celtic Music Interpretive Centre SOUTHWEST MAGAREE contact: Cyril Aker • [email protected] South West Margaree (St. Joseph’s hosted by Atlantic Memorial Park IRISH DINNER Parish) Hall, South West Margaree Rocky Bay Irish Club, Rocky Bay MILLING FROLIC 10:00 pm - 1:00 am • $10

Baile nan Gàidheal / 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm • $15 Adult square dance with live music for Highland Village, Iona Come to an Irish settlement for a tradi- those 19 and over. Just a short drive tional Irish Stew supper with homemade 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm • museum charges apply following the Inverness concert.

rolls, biscuits, coffee or tea, and dessert. contact: Lawrence MacLellan See page 61 for full description contact: Catherine Mae Kehoe 902-248-2180 902-631-1555 • [email protected] [email protected] hosted by Rocky Bay Irish Club hosted by St. Joseph’s Parish Hall Committee CONCERTS

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FRIENDS ALONG THE RIGHT AND FAMILY SHORES OF AT HOME Dwayne Côté & Roger Stone BRAS D’OR The Dardanelles Saltfishforty J.P. Cormier & Beppe Gambetta Nic Gareiss & Mairi Campbell Fàrsan & Jake Lauzon Gillian Boucher & Bob McNeill Dara Smith-MacDonald St. Matthew Wesley United Church, Laura Smith & Kim Dunn & Adam Young North Sydney • 2:00 pm • $30 The Outside Track Sheena & Tessa Boucher When you come from a place like Cape Big Pond Community Centre / Fire Breton or Orkney, or even the extended Hall, Big Pond • 2:00 pm • $40 Colaisde na Gàidhlig / The Gaelic community of traditional Gaelic song, College, St. Ann’s • 2:00 pm • $35 52 music, and dance, there always seems to We may be rounding out the marathon be friends and family around. And this that is Celtic Colours, but you can’t Colaisde na Gàidhlig / the Gaelic College matinee will feature both in spectacular slow down now, we have a crackerjack is home to the late night Celtic Colours style. Music clearly runs in the family of a show for you in picturesque Big Festival Club, sponsored by Big Spruce with Dwayne Côté and Roger Stone from Pond. While the multi-generational Brewing from just down the road in Cape Breton. Well-known individually, combination of J.P. Cormier, Beppe Nyanza, so on this last day of the Festival, the brothers will share their Gambetta, and Jake Lauzon is new even you can bet that more than a few Festival instrumental mastery of fiddle, guitar to them, one can bet their guitars will folks are feeling right at home here by and banjo, Roger’s vast repertoire of echo to the very back of the hall this now. But some of the artists performing songs, and Dwayne’s outstanding fiddle afternoon. The Outside Track come today may be feeling a little more at compositions. Douglas Montgomery from many corners of the globe to home than others. Nic Gareiss and Mairi (fiddle) and Brian Cromarty (guitar, make beautiful music together. As they Campbell have long-standing ties to mandola, and vocals) from Orkney have continue to rack up awards around the Cape Breton, while the Dardanelles, known each other since primary school world, this multi-instrumental five from nearby Newfoundland, grew up in a and played together in sessions and piece will bring out the emotion in the culture of traditional music and dance, so various bands over the years, before music. And speaking of emotion, a fan they’ll be feeling right at home too. Many forming Saltfishforty. So the lines favourite with a cult-like following, Cape Breton dancers, fiddlers, pipers, between friends and family may be a Laura Smith is paired with Kim piano-players and Gaelic singers have little blurrier in their case. But really, do Dunn on piano to share her thought- fond memories of attending the College lines between friends and family even provoking, heart-wrenching songs. growing up, learning about their Gaelic exist when it comes to making music? They will paint a visual image to stir heritage and developing their language, Fàrsan represents a new generation your soul for days to come. This is a dance and instrumental skills. Some, of traditional musicians pulling from day to take the scenic route to the hall, like fiddler Dara Smith-MacDonald and various world-wide influences. Expect sit back and relax to these wonderful dancer Sheena Boucher, have even gone a memorable afternoon of music, song, performers… along the shores of the on to teach at the College. With this lineup and dance in the majestic beauty of St. Bras d’Or. of music and dance, we think you’ll be feeling right at home here today too. Matthew Wesley. hosted by Big Pond Community Council hosted by hosted by St. Matthew Wesley United Church Nearby Meal: Baked Ham and Colaisde na Gàidhlig / The Gaelic College Scalloped Potato Supper Page 55 CONCERTS

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CAUSEWAY CEILIDH Julie Fowlis Beòlach Breabach

Port Hawkesbury Civic Centre, Port Hawkesbury • 7:30 pm • $60/50/40

We’re back in Port Hawkesbury tonight to wrap up this 23rd Celtic Colours International Festival, and while it can be a bit sad for the Festival to be coming to a close, we are very much looking forward to this concert. We’ll catch up with our Artists in Residence, Beòlach and Breabach, who will be teaming up for this Causeway Ceilidh after playing together earlier in the week at Strathspey 53 Performing Arts Centre in Mabou. And we’ll get to hear from the lovely and talented Gaelic singer and multi- instrumentalist Julie Fowlis from North Uist in Scotland’s Outer Hebrides. Julie was last at Celtic Colours in 2004 with the group Dòchas. Since then she has gone on to become a sought-after presenter for television and radio as well as releasing award-winning and critically acclaimed albums, performing on stages from village halls in the Highlands to Carnegie Hall in New York, and singing the theme to Disney Pixar’s hit movie Brave. Julie will be backed by a stellar band of players you’ll recognize from past Festivals including Éamon Doorley (Danú), Duncan Chisholm (Phil Cunningham), and Tony Byrne (Alan Kelly Gang, Niamh Ní Charra). Don’t miss Julie’s only performance at Celtic Colours this year. And why not head to the Festival Club after for one last toast and a final blast of tunes.

Nearby Meal: Roast Beef Dinner in Grande Anse Page 55 CULTURAL EXPERIENCES

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CAPE BRETON FARMERS’ EXHIBIT: TEN645 DOORS OPEN FOR CHURCHES MARKET Cape Breton Centre for Craft Free Admission

Cape Breton Farmers’ Market, and Design, Sydney St. Patrick’s Catholic Church, Whiteside Sydney 10:00 am - 4:00 pm • free 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

8:30 am - 2:00 pm • free See page 60 for full description St. John’s United Strathlorne, This market features a wide variety of Strathlorne local product offerings from fresh pro- CUSTOMS HOUSE OPEN HOUSE 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

duce and eggs to prepared foods, craft Customs House Artisan Incubator, St. Matthew’s United Church, Inverness beer, breads, and pastries as well as the Port Hawkesbury 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm works of artists and artisans. 10:00 am - 5:30 pm • free hosted by Cape Breton Farmers’ Market Trinity Anglican Church, Sydney Mines Drop in to see the artists at work in their 2:00 pm - 7:00 pm

MI’KMAQ MEDICINE WALK studios and browse their products and See page 60 for full description Membertou Trade and those of other Cape Breton artists in the Convention Centre, Membertou gallery shop. WEAVING DEMONSTRATION 9:00 am & 1:00 pm • $35 contact: 902-625-1928 Scotsville School of Crafts, [email protected] Choose from either 9am-12pm or Scotsville hosted by Cape Breton Centre for Craft and 1pm-4pm for your tour. Please book in Design 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm • donation advance as there are 20 spots per tour. You will learn traditional practices while See page 61 for full description EVELINE KLAMT EXHIBIT walking through a wooded trail, and J. Franklin Wright Gallery at Port LAKESIDE IMPRESSIONS finish with a dreamcatcher workshop Hawkesbury Civic Centre, ART AND CRAFT EXHIBIT and the baking of luskinikn bread. Port Hawkesbury contact: David Meuse Scotsville School of Crafts, Scotsville

902-564-6466 ext • 5025 / 902-574-7415 10:00 am - 8:00 pm • free 54 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm • donation hosted by Destination Membertou See page 60 for full description See page 60 for full description TREASURES OF MARGAREE STORYTELLING TOUR CRAFT FAIR HIKE THE COXHEATH COLOURS Baile nan Gàidheal / Margaree Forks Fire Hall, Margaree & CEILIDH Highland Village, Iona Forks Coxheath Hills Wilderness Trail,

10:30 am - 12:30 pm • $25; Coxheath 10:00 am - 2:00 pm • $2 reservations required

A variety of works including jewelry, 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm • donation See page 61 for full description knit and hand-sewn items, woodwork- Musicians and naturalists are situated ing, glass work and many other trea- along a mountainside trail, with story- INTERACTIVE EXHIBIT sures, from traditional to contemporary. ROOM TOUR tellers in the cabin at the top. A ceilidh contact: Mary MacNeil • 902-248-2317 Celtic Music Interpretive Centre, Judique in the hall will follow where you can [email protected] purchase hot apple cider, tea, oatcakes, hosted by Margaree Area Development 11:00 am - 5:00 pm • $5 and biscuits.

Association contact: Lisa Patterson • 902-564-6352 See page 60 for full description [email protected] ANNUAL QUILT SHOW AND SALE hosted by Coxheath Hills Wilderness RURAL AND URBAN Belle Côte Community Centre, Recreation Association Inverness County Centre Belle Côte for the Arts, Inverness SHIP HARBOUR SONG SESSION 10:00 am - 4:00 pm • donation 11:00 am - 5:00 pm • free The Evergreen Club,

A delightful show of traditional and Port Hawkesbury contemporary quilts, wall hangings, and See page 61 for full description 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm • donation household items, much of which will be LUNCH CEILIDH for sale. This friendly participatory event Celtic Music Interpretive contact: Bea Tilsley • 902-258-3048 includes group sing-a-longs of Centre, Judique [email protected] favourite Cape Breton songs. hosted by Celtic Quilt Guild 11:30 am - 3:00 pm • menu pricing contact: Adam Cooke • 902-625-8863

[email protected] See page 61 for full description hosted by Port Hastings Historical Society CULTURAL EXPERIENCES CULTURAL EXPERIENCES

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CELEBRATION OF DANCE - ROAST BEEF DINNER IN WEST MABOU FAMILY CÉLÉBRATION DE LA DANSE GRAND ANSE SQUARE DANCE La Picasse Centre Communautaire Royal Canadian Legion Branch 47, West Mabou Hall, West Mabou

Culturel, Petit-de-Grat Grande Anse 9:00 pm - 12:00 am 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm • $10 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm • $15 adults $8; free for ages 12 & under

This event will showcase different styles Enjoy a hot roast beef dinner with West Mabou Square Dance is a of dance (step, square, and highland), mashed potatoes, vegetables, tea or well-established traditional square share local dance history, and have coffee, and dessert. dance that features some of the Island’s participants learning simple dance steps. contact: Linda Buchanan • 902-345-2290 finest musicians. All ages are welcome. contact: Josette Marchand 902-345-2610 • [email protected] contact: Derrick & Melody Cameron 902-226-0149 • [email protected] hosted by Royal Canadian Legion Branch [email protected] hosted by La Picasse Centre 47 Grand Anse hosted by West Mabou Hall Communautaire Culturel BAKED HAM AND SCALLOPED SQUARE DANCING WORKSHOP POTATO SUPPER Port Hawkesbury Civic Centre, Sydney Forks Recreation Centre, Port Hawkesbury Sydney Forks

2:00 pm - 4:00 pm • $10 4:30 pm - 6:30 pm • $15

Come join Burton MacIntyre for a fun Enjoy a baked ham and scalloped potato afternoon of square dancing! supper with veggies, biscuit, tea or cof- contact: Paula Davis • 902-625-7891 fee and dessert. [email protected] contact: Gail Leighton • 902-562-8012 hosted by Town of Port Hawkesbury [email protected] hosted by Sydney Forks Recreation Center VISIT TO THE 55 ALPACA FARM ALL AGES SQUARE DANCE Mamie’s Alpacas, Glendale AND WORKSHOP

Marion Bridge Recreation Centre, 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm • donation Marion Bridge The textile arts are common in Cape 7:00 pm • adults $10; youth 19 & under Breton and Alpacas have become an $5; family $25 interesting source of fibre. Come and meet these adorable animals in their Learn how to square dance with instruc- Search home. tor Gordie Lotherington, and then show contact: Rachel MacGillivray your steps to the fiddle music of Dara 902-302-1734 • [email protected] Smith-MacDonald accompanied on for your hosted by Glendale and Area Community piano by Adam Young. Cooperative contact: Adam Young [email protected] favourite OPEN MIC SESSIONS hosted by Marion Bridge Community Bras d’Or Yacht Club, Baddeck Council artists

2:00 pm - 6:00 pm • donation BOISDALE ROUND AND

SQUARE DANCE See page 61 for full description in a snap, Boisdale Fire Hall, Boisdale

8:30 pm - 12:00 am • $10 or tap A classic Cape Breton Square Dance with a few waltzes thrown in for good Our website is mobile friendly measure. Music by Donna Marie De- celtic-colours.com Wolfe, Michael Hall, and Hilda Chiasson. Licensed venue, ages 19 and up. contact: Fred McCracken • 902-871-2655 902-577-7728 • [email protected] hosted by Boisdale Volunteer Fire Department ARTIST INDEX

Aaron Collis & Emilia Bartellas • Page 42 Donnie Campbell & Jinks O’Neill • Page 36 Kyle MacNeil • Pages 34, 48 Aaron Lewis • Page 17 Doug MacPhee • Pages 22, 30 La Swing du Suête • Page 21 Adam Young • Pages 52, 55 Dwayne Côté • Pages 18, 30, 39, 45, 50, 52 Laura Smith • Pages 42, 47, 52 Adrianne Chapman • Page 30 Elizabeth MacInnis • Pages 16, 21 Lawrence Cameron • Page 27 Allan Dewar • Pages 25, 28, 29, 33, 37, 39, 44, 46, 50 Emma Stevens • Page 25 Leanne Aucoin • Page 48 Allie Bennett • Page 17 Eric Wright • Pages 25, 29, 43 Leon Dubinsky • Page 48 Amanda MacDonald • Page 21 Extended MacNeil Clan • Page 17 Lisa Cameron & Vern MacDougall & Andrea Beaton • Pages 16, 18, 21, 26, 31, 50 Fàrsan • Pages 42, 49, 52 Finley MacDougall• Page 31 April Verch Band • Pages 26, 35, 43 Finlay MacDonald & Chris Stout Lisa MacNeil • Page 17 Arthur Cormack • Pages 16, 22 Pages 31, 36, 41 Lucy MacNeil • Page 42 Ashley MacIsaac • Pages 15, 22 Fuaran • Pages 16, 21 Mac Morin • Pages 17, 22, 41 Barra MacNeils • Page 17 Gerard Beaton • Page 16 Maggie Beaton • Page 16 Ben VanZutphen & Keigan MacLennan Gervais Cormier • Page 47 Mairi Campbell • Pages 35, 42, 47, 52 Page 21 Gillian Boucher & Bob McNeill Mairi Rankin • Pages 25, 29, 43 Beòlach • Pages 11, 31, 37, 48, 53 Pages 36, 42, 47, 52 Margaret MacPherson • Page 36 Beppe Gambetta • Pages 41, 48, 52 Glenn Graham • Pages 22, 28 Mario Colosimo • Page 42 Bette MacDonald & Maynard Morrison Gu Smior • Pages 42, 47 Mary Beth Carty • Page 17 Page 37 Hailee LeFort, Ward MacDonald & Jesse Mary Elizabeth MacInnis • Page 16 Périard • Pages 21, 26, 31 Betty Lou Beaton • Page 16 Mary Jane Lamond • Pages 22, 48 Heather Rankin • Pages 39, 48 Blanche Sophocleous • Page 25 Matt MacIsaac • Page 41 Hilda Chiasson • Pages 17, 21, 35, 55 Bob McNeill • Pages 17, 36, 42, 47, 52 Matthew Byrne • Page 43 Howie MacDonald • Page 17 Boyd MacNeil • Page 42 Maxim Cormier • Page 47 Iain MacQuarrie • Page 35 Breabach • Pages 11, 18, 31, 48, 53 Maybelle Chisholm McQueen • Page 22 Ian MacDougall • Pages 21, 27, 30 Brenda Stubbert • Pages 22, 25 Megan Henderson & Ewan Robertson 56 Brent Aucoin • Page 48 Ivan Flett Memorial Dancers • Pages 18, 21, 25 Page 21 Brian Doyle • Pages 18, 21 J.J. Chaisson • Pages 31, 37, 39, 41, 47 Melanie MacDonald • Page 21 Buddy MacDonald • Pages 14, 17, 35 J.P. Cormier • Pages 17, 23, 26, 31, 41, 46, 48, 52 Melody & Derrick Cameron • Pages 18, 38 Cailean MacLean • Pages 27, 35, 41, 47 Jake Lauzon • Pages 31, 41, 48, 52 Miller | MacDonald | Cormier Calum MacCrimmon • Page 41 James MacKenzie • Page 41 Pages 25, 30, 35 Campbell Hart • Page 21 James MacLean • Page 43 Monica MacNeil • Page 17 Cape Breton Fiddlers’ Association • Page 22 Janelle Boudreau • Page 26 Mooney Francis • Page 25 Cape Breton Orchestra • Page 48 Jason MacDonald • Page 30 Na Gaisgich Òga • Pages 16, 21 Jenna Moynihan & Màiri Chaimbeul • Nic Gareiss • Pages 35, 42, 47, 52 Cape Breton University Pipe Band • Pages 15, 21 Pages 16, 21, 26, 30 Chartrand Babineau • Pages 27, 35, 43, 47 NicNeil • Page 43 Jenny MacKenzie • Page 36 Chris Babineau • Page 22 Nicole LeBlanc • Page 47 Joanne MacIntyre & sons • Page 36 Còig • Pages 18, 22 Nipper MacLeod • Page 31 Joe MacMaster • Page 22 Colin Grant • Page 30 Orianna MacNeil • Page 35 Joël Chiasson • Pages 26, 48 Colin Watson • Page 16 Patricia Chafe • Page 25 John Doyle • Pages 17, 26, 31 Cyril MacPhee • Pages 17, 37 Patrick Gillis • Pages 21, 25, 30 John MacLean • Pages 27, 35, 41, 47 Danelle & Céline Doucet • Page 21 Paul Cranford • Page 42 Jordan Musycsyn • Pages 36, 48 Dara Smith-MacDonald • Pages 52, 55 Paul MacDonald • Page 42 Julie Fowlis • Page 53 Darla MacPhee • Pages 31, 37, 47 Phamie Gow • Pages 15, 22 Kaia Kater • Pages 30, 37, 42, 47 Darrell Keigan • Page 17 Pierre Chartrand • Pages 27, 35, 43, 47 Kenneth MacKenzie • Pages 16, 24, 35, 39 Dave MacIsaac • Page 35 Pius MacIsaac • Page 27 Kim Dunn • Pages 42, 52 Dawn & Helen MacDonald Rachel Davis • Page 35 & Brenley Gillis• Page 35 Kimberley Fraser • Pages 33, 48 Rémi Arsenault • Pages 31, 37, 47 Dawn & Margie Beaton • Page 16 Kinnaris Quintet • Pages 18, 23, 26 Rita Rankin • Page 36 Dawn Beaton • Page 16, 35 Kinnon Beaton • Page 16 Robert Durando • Pages 17, 42 Dominique Dodge • Pages 21, 30, 36 Kittel & Co. • Pages 26, 31, 36 Rodney MacDonald • Pages 22, 29 Donna Marie DeWolfe • Pages 37, 55 Kolten MacDonell • Pages 22, 35, 44 Roger Stone • Pages 37, 49, 52 ARTIST INDEX ARTIST & VENUE INDEX

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Acadian Trailhead, Chéticamp Visitor Calvin Memorial Hall Doryman Pub & Grill Centre 3 Upper Warren Street, Louisbourg 15528 Cabot Trail, Chéticamp 16648 Cabot Trail, Chéticamp Calvin United Church East Bay Legion Alexander Graham Bell National 420 Hudson Street, New Waterford 2317 Kings Road, Howie Centre Historic Site Cape Breton Centre for Craft and Design Église Saint Joseph 559 Chebucto Street, Baddeck 322 Charlotte Street, Sydney 14 Boudreauville Road, Petit de Grat An Drochaid: Mabou Gaelic & Historical Cape Breton Farmers’ Market Englishtown Community Hall Society 15 Falmouth Street, Sydney 971 Highway-312, Englishtown 11513 Ceilidh Trail, Mabou Cape Breton Highlands Academy Ephraim Scott Presbyterian Church Aspy Bay United 11070 Cabot Trail, Belle Côte 8 South Haven Loop, South Haven 983 Bay St. Lawrence Road, Aspy Bay Cape Breton Miners’ Museum Every Woman’s Centre Aspy Trailhead 17 Museum Street, Glace Bay 21 Trinity Avenue, Sydney Big Intervale, Cape North Cape Breton University Farquarson Memorial Church Atlantic Memorial Park 1250 Grand Lake Road, Sydney 1948 Cabot Trail, Middle River Cable Street, Sydney Mines Cape North Fire Hall Fisheries Building 57 Baddeck Valley Community Centre 29428 Cabot Trail, Cape North 4115 Shore Road, Eskasoni 87 Big Baddeck Road Extension, Baddeck Celtic Music Interpretive Centre Fortress of Louisbourg Chapel 5471 NS Highway 19, Judique 259 Park Service Road, Louisbourg Baddeck Volunteer Fire Department Community Centre Centre 200 Fortress of Louisbourg National 526 Chebucto Street, Baddeck 481 George Street, Sydney Historic Site 259 Park Service Road, Louisbourg Baile nan Gàidheal / Highland Village Centre de la Mi-Carême 4119 Highway 223, Iona 51 Old Cabot Trail Road, Grand Étang Franey Trailhead 230 Franey Road, Ingonish Bay St. Lawrence Community Centre Chapel Island Wharf 3160 Bay St. Lawrence Road, Bay St. 632 Chapel Island Road, Potlotek Frog Pond Café Lawrence Chestico Museum 15856 Cabot Trail, Chéticamp Belle Côte Community Centre 8095 Route 19, Port Hood Glencoe Mills Hall 10615 Cabot Trail, Belle Côte Christmas Island Fire Hall 612 Glencoe Road, Glencoe Mills Big Pond Community Centre / Fire Hall 8539 NS Highway 223, Christmas Island Glencoe Station Hall 7193 NS Highway 4, Big Pond Colaisde na Gàidhlig / The Gaelic College 1536 Mabou Road, Port Hood Boisdale Fire Hall 51779 Cabot Trail, St. Ann’s Goat Island Trail 3810 Grand Narrows Highway, Boisdale Corney Brook Trail Goat Island Trail, Eskasoni Boularderie School 18573 Cabot Trail, Chéticamp Grandona Royal Canadian Legion 12065 Kempt Head Road, Coxheath Hills Wilderness Trail Branch 124 4237 NS-223, Iona Boularderie East 1580 Coxheath Road (at intersection Bras d’Or Lakes Inn of Blackett’s Lake Rd & Coxheath Rd), Greenwood United Church 10095 Grenville Street, St. Peter’s Coxheath 98 Twining Street, Baddeck Bras d’Or Yacht Club Cranton Crossroads Community Centre Harbour Restaurant and Bar 1 Jones Street, Baddeck 206 Cranton Cross Road, Margaree 15299 Cabot Trail, Chéticamp Broad Cove Campground Center Highland Arts Theatre 35479 Cabot Trail, Ingonish Creignish Recreation Centre 40 Bentinck Street, Sydney Brook Village Hall 2123 Highway 19, Creignish Holy Trinity Anglican Church Hall 6432 NS Highway 252, Brook Village Customs House Artisan Incubator 329 Reeves Street, Port Hawkesbury Brooks Haven Seniors’ Recreation 402 Granville Street, Port Hawkesbury Ingonish Beach Campground Centre D’Escousse Civic Improvement Hall 37437 Cabot Trail, Ingonish 1748 Gabarus Highway, Prime Brook 3276 Hwy 320, D’Escousse VENUE INDEX

Ingonish Fire Hall and Community Malagawatch Church, Highland Village Royal Canadian Legion Branch 138, Centre 4119 Highway 223, Iona Ashby 35936 Cabot Trail, Ingonish Mamie’s Alpacas 35 State Street, Sydney Inverary Resort - MacAulay Conference 84 MacEachern Road, Glendale Royal Canadian Legion Branch 47 Centre Margaree Forks Fire Hall 6834 NS-4, Grande Anse 368 Shore Road, Baddeck 7811 Cabot Trail, Margaree Forks SAERC (Strait Area Education Inverness County Centre for the Arts Margaree Meeting Place Recreation Centre) 16080 Highway 19, Inverness 7972 Cabot Trail, Margaree Forks 304 Pitt Street, Port Hawkesbury Inverness Education Centre / Academy Marion Bridge Recreation Centre Sacred Heart Church 59 Veterans Memorial Court, Inverness 3921 Gabarus Highway, Marion Bridge 15338 Hwy 4, Johnstown Iona Port Masonic Hall Salty Rose’s and the Periwinkle Café 2583 St. Columba Road, Iona 24 Queen Street, Baddeck 36056 Cabot Trail, Ingonish J. Franklin Wright Gallery at Port McConnell Library Sarah Denny Cultural Center Hawkesbury Civic Centre 50 Falmouth Street, Sydney 65 Mini Mall Drive, Eskasoni 606 Reeves Street, Port Hawkesbury Membertou Heritage Park Savoy Theatre Joan Harriss Cruise Pavilion 35 Su’n Awti, Membertou 116 Commercial Street, Glace Bay 60 Esplanade, Sydney Membertou Trade and Convention Scotsville School of Crafts John J. Nugent Firemen’s Centre Centre 2334 Strathlorne-Scotsville Road, Elliot Street, Sydney Mines 50 Maillard Street, Membertou Scotsville Judique Community Centre Mi’kmawey School Seafood Stop 5473 Highway 19, Judique 344 Chapel Island Road, Potlotek 14803 Cabot Trail, Chéticamp Keltic Lodge Resort Mica Hill Trailhead Ski Ben Eoin 383 Keltic Inn Road, Ingonish 30936 Cabot Trail, South Harbour 5101 NS-4, Ben Eoin Knights of Columbus Hall Middle River United Skye River Trail 3236 Plummer Avenue, New Waterford 1954 Cabot Trail Road, Middle River 9281 NS-105, Whycocomagh Knox Presbyterian Church Mira Seniors & Pensioners Centre South West Margaree (St. Joseph’s 39 Grant Street, Baddeck 4037 Gabarus Highway, Marion Bridge Parish) Hall L’Abrie Café Restaurant et Bar 19678 NS Trunk 19, South West 58 North Highlands Community Museum Margaree 15559 Cabot Trail, Chéticamp 29243 Cabot Trail, Cape North L’Ardoise Community Centre St. Andrew’s Anglican Church North Highlands Elementary 250 New Haven Road, Neil’s Harbour 206 Chapel Cove Road, L’Ardoise 1363 Bay St. Lawrence Road, Aspy Bay La Picasse Centre Communautaire St. Andrew’s Parish Hall North River Community Hall 244 New Haven Road, Neil’s Harbour Culturel 37 Oregon Road, North River 3435 N Side Petit-de-Grat Road St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church North Sydney Firefighters Club 643 Main Street, Sydney Mines La Place des arts Père Anselme Chiasson 14 Pierce Street, North Sydney 15118 Cabot Trail, Chéticamp St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church OLA Parish Hall North River La Rigouèche, Chéticamp Visitor Centre 2318 Highway 206, Arichat 16648 Cabot Trail, Chéticamp 48462 Cabot Trail, North River Bridge Our Lady of Assumption Catholic Church St. Ann’s Bay United Church Le Gabriel Family Restaurant 2292 Highway 206, Arichat 15424 Cabot Trail, Chéticamp 46715 Cabot Trail, Indian Brook Our Lady of Fatima Church St. Bartholomew Anglican Church Lennox Passage Provincial Park 1452 Kings Road, Sydney 2313 Hwy 320, Martinique 7546 Main Street, Louisbourg Port Hastings Fire Hall St. Columba Presbyterian Church Les Trois Pignons 15 Old Victoria Road, Port Hastings 15584 Cabot Trail, Chéticamp 4005 Gabarus Highway, Marion Bridge Port Hastings Museum St. John’s Anglican Little Narrows Ferry 24 Highway 19, Port Hastings 1 Little Narrows Road, Little Narrows 36042 Cabot Trail, Ingonish Port Hawkesbury Civic Centre St. John’s Centre for the Arts (Former Little Narrows Presbyterian Church 606 Reeves Street, Port Hawkesbury 292 Hwy 223, Little Narrows Anglican Church) Port Morien Legion / Community Centre 2513 Hwy 206, Arichat Lobsters R Us 2832 NS-255, Port Morien 197 Little Harbour Road, Lower St. John’s United Strathlorne L’Ardoise Princeville United 308 Church Road, Inverness 1041 Riverside Road, Princeville Louisbourg Playhouse St. Joseph Parish 11 Aberdeen Street, Louisbourg Riverdale Community Centre 34 Archibald Avenue, North Sydney 106 Vince McCarthy Drive, Cleveland Louisdale Lions Club St. Joseph’s Catholic Church 3128 Whiteside Road, Louisdale Rocky Bay Irish Club 5621 Marble Mountain Road, River 751 Rocky Bay Road, Rocky Bay Denys Mabou Arena 186 Mabou Harbour Road, Mabou Ross Ferry Fire Hall 9651 Kempt Head Road, Boularderie VENUE INDEX VENUE INDEX

St. Margaret Catholic St. Peter’s Parish Hall Wagmatcook Culture and Heritage 326 Cenotaph Road, West Bay Road 248 Main Street, Port Hood Centre St. Margaret of Scotland St. Peter’s United Church Hall 10765 NS-105, Wagmatcook 3023 Bay St. Lawrence Road, Bay St. 9915 Grenville Street, St. Peter’s West Bay Road Fire Hall Lawrence St. Stephen’s Jubilee United Church 644 Cenotaph Road, West Bay Road St. Margaret of Scotland Catholic Church 239 Main Street, Port Hood West Mabou Hall 178 Broad Cove Marsh Road, Broad Cove Strathspey Performing Arts Centre 2399 Little Mabou Road, West Mabou St. Mary of the Angels Community Hall 11156 Highway 19, Mabou Whycocomagh Education Centre 4216 NS-105, Glendale Sydney Forks Recreation Centre 50 Norman McLeod Road, St. Mary’s Catholic Church 2639 King’s Road, Sydney Forks Whycocomagh 41 Mabou Harbour Road, Mabou The Evergreen Club Whycocomagh Waterfront Centre St. Mary’s Parish Hall (Mabou Hall) 37 Embree Street, Port Hawkesbury 9650 NS-105, Whycocomagh 11538 Nova Scotia Trunk 19, Mabou The Former St. Peter and St. John St. Matthew Wesley United Church Anglican Church 2 Peppett Street, North Sydney 390 Shore Road, Baddeck St. Matthew’s United Church The LeNoir Forge Museum 78 Church Street, Inverness 708 Veteran’s Memorial Drive, Arichat St. Patrick’s Catholic Church The Old Miller Trout Farm 1621 Whiteside Road, Whiteside 408 Doyles Road, Margaree Forks St. Patrick’s Parish Hall Trinity Anglican Church 6541 Cabot Trail, North East Margaree 15 Queen Street, Sydney Mines St. Paul’s Anglican Church Hall Union Presbyterian Church 115 Cliff Street, Port Morien 4220 Louisbourg Highway, Albert Bridge St. Peter’s Lions Hall United Protestant Church 39 Lion’s Avenue, St. Peter’s of Sydney River St. Peter’s Parish 1524 Kings Road, Sydney River 37392 Cabot Trail, Ingonish Beach 11pm nightly at the Gaelic College 59

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