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Festival Guide

WELCOME

Message from the Honourable Navdeep Message de l’honorable Navdeep A Message from the Honourable Bains, Minister of Innovation, Science Bains,ministre de l’Innovation, Stephen McNeil, M.L.A. Premier and Economic Development and des Sciences et du Développement Minister Responsible for the Atlantic économique et ministre responsable On behalf of the Government of Nova Canada Opportunities Agency de l’Agence de promotion Scotia, I am delighted to welcome you économique du Canada atlantique to the 2018 Celtic Colours International Festival. Welcome to the 2018 Celtic Colours Bienvenue au festival international International Festival Couleurs celtiques 2018 Celtic Colours has earned a reputation for showcasing traditional and On behalf of the Government of Au nom du gouvernement du Canada, contemporary music and artists, paired Canada, I am pleased to welcome you je suis ravi de vous accueillir à la with workshops and exhibits against to the 22nd annual Celtic Colours 22e édition du festival international the backdrop of beautiful Cape Breton. International Festival. annuel Couleurs celtiques. Year after year, the festival continues to bring together thousands of visitors, For nine glorious days, instruments Pendant neuf jours mémorables, des from all over the world, to experience will be played, songs will be sung, instruments se feront entendre, des world-class talent. and the Highland Fling will be danced chansons seront entonnées et des amid the beauty of autumn in Cape danses écossaises prendront leur It is this combination of talent, scenery Breton. envol dans le décor automnal féérique and people that makes Celtic Colours so 3 du Cap Breton. popular with locals and visitors alike, This celebration of sights and sounds providing Nova Scotians and visitors draws musicians and music lovers Cette fête pour les yeux et les oreilles with a unique experience and fond from around the world to the church attire musiciens et amateurs de memories of Cape Breton Island. halls, auditoriums and ceilidhs of musique du monde entier dans les Cape Breton Island. salles paroissiales, les auditoriums et Supporting events and activities, such les fêtes écossaises de l’île. as Celtic Colours, is an example of how Along the way, Celtic Colours we are promoting, developing and contributes nearly $1.5 million a day La tenue du festival Couleurs celebrating our province’s culture and to the local economy. celtiques rapporte par ailleurs près heritage. Showcasing and sharing our de 1,5 million de dollars par jour à cultural expression and shared heritage Performers and community l’économie locale. is important to Nova Scotians and helps volunteers are to be commended attract visitors to the province. – and visitors thanked – for their Les artistes et bénévoles de la cultural and economic contributions collectivité méritent d’être félicités On behalf of the Government of Nova to Cape Breton through the Celtic – et les visiteurs, remerciés – pour Scotia, I want to thank the festival Colours International Festival. les contributions culturelles et organizers and volunteers for their hard économiques qu’ils apportent au work and making the Celtic Colours The Honourable Navdeep Bains, Cap Breton pendant le festival International Festival an authentic Nova P.C., M.P. international Couleurs celtiques. Scotian experience.

L’honorable Navdeep Bains, I hope you enjoy the festival. Here’s to C.P., député another great festival year.

Sincerely,

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Pjila’si! Fàilte! Bienvenue! Welcome! I am so glad you’re joining us for Celtic Colours, whether this is your first time or one of many. For those of you who crossed the Causeway to be here, I hope you felt what so many Cape Bretoners do when you finally arrived at that green swing bridge welcoming you home.

That physical link between Cape Breton maple trees planted across the Island, one they have never visited Scotland, have and the mainland is symbolic of the theme tree for every ticket sold in 2017. Working made an impact on the music, and the for this year’s Festival: “Connected”. As with community groups, partners, and revitalization of the step dance culture you explore the Island you’ll see many individuals, the planting of these beautiful that is growing there. The Pipers’ Ceilidh communities that pull their name from maples will bring people together and will be a nod to Sandy Boyd, and our Close an t-seann dùthaich or the old country, a connect us further to this special land. to the Floor show will celebrate Minnie

direct connection to our Scottish settlers; and Alex MacMaster. While we’ll be planting many trees, we’ll and those that have maintained their also harvest a few for a special project And what would our Festival be without original Mi’kmaw names. Maintaining titled Voices of the Naomhóg. Boat our esteemed Artists in Residence? Allan connections is one of the reasons we as builders and musicians from Ireland MacDonald and Paul MacDonald have Capers stay on this Island or visit home will connect with local artists, who will been working hard to help shape this frequently. This special place beckons learn the art of constructing these boats. year’s Festival and each will present us all to return home to our family and Together they will learn tunes and songs a special show of the bardic and song friends, to relive fond memories and from both sides of the Atlantic to be traditions in the Gaelic language. Be sure create new ones. presented during the Festival. After the to check out Bards of Boisdale and Òrain: We are all connected in some way, first performance in Baddeck the artists The Connecting Thread.

whether through place, music, family will row these boats on the Bras d’Or Lake My gracious thanks for being a part of and relationships, or shared history and to the second concert in Iona. Be sure to Celtic Colours, to our Cape Bretoners who experiences. It is these connections we’ll check out this unique show and see the share their gifts and open their hearts, explore through the line-up of performers naomhóg for yourself! and to our many visitors for traveling the chosen and special projects that foster For this year’s tribute shows, we’ll pay lengths you have to join us for this annual kinship among artists. homage to a man from Scotland whose celebration. We’ll also embark on the next phase of the influence on the Island’s piping tradition Slàinte! Maple Project this year that will see 22,107 lives to this day, and a couple who, while 2018 FESTIVAL SNAPSHOT FESTIVAL STAFF

2018 Artists in Residence TICKETS & INFORMATION ALLAN MACDONALD, SCOTLAND PAUL MACDONALD, CAPE BRETON toll free 1-888-355-7744 local 902-567-3000 A leading light in the Paul MacDonald is 37 Nepean Street Sydney, NS B1P 6A7 Gaelic music scene, a musician of many Allan MacDonald talents who has is in demand traveled throughout ADMINISTRATION OFFICE Celtic Colours Festival Society, 850 Grand Lake Road, internationally as a traditional music Suite 8, Sydney, ns b1p 5t9 Canada composer, musical circles both at home [email protected] director, piper, and abroad. singer, workshop toll free 1-877-285-2321 An accomplished guitarist, he has leader, and lecturer on Gaelic music. local 902-562-6700 performed with numerous Celtic artists fax 902-539-9388 One of his myriad gifts is to make and is a member of The Rocky Shore pibroch accessible and lovable. His and The Poe Trio. He is also a skilled MISSION STATEMENT To promote, celebrate and develop Cape Breton’s living Celtic work as a scholar-performer, reuniting and creative sound engineer, producer, culture and hospitality by producing an international festival seventeenth-century piping with its collector, writer and researcher with during the fall colours that builds relationships across Gaelic roots, is influencing a whole an extensive discography that includes Cape Breton Island and beyond. generation of pipers. traditional music from Cape Breton, FUTURE FESTIVALS Ireland, Scotland and the Appalachians. No stranger to Cape Breton and Celtic 2019 October 11-19 Colours, Allan has played the Festival Over the past 20 years, his audio 2020 October 9-17 2021 October 8-16 many times in the past and we are thrilled restorations have put many fine old 2018 festival to welcome him as Artist in Residence. recordings back into circulation. Snapshot MEMBERS OF THE BOARD Bob MacEachern Chair Bill Vokey Vice Chair John MacNeil Treasurer Pauline Davis Secretary A MESSAGE FROM THE EXECUTIVE A MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIR OF Paula Davis DIRECTOR, MIKE MACSWEEN THE BOARD, BOB MACEACHERN Glen Campbell Graham Hudson Welcome to Celtic Welcome to Celtic Gerardette Brown 11 Colours. We hope Colours and beautiful George Paul you enjoy all the Cape Breton Island! Napoléon Chiasson Alyce MacLean Festival has to offer Our success over the Amanda Mombourquette in venues large and past two decades small in every corner is measured by the HONOURARY MEMBERS OF THE BOARD of our Island! amount of enjoyment The Late Hon. Allan J. MacEachen we see on your faces at each show. It Sam MacPhee It is because of the interest from doesn’t work without you and it wouldn’t “Festival-Goers” like you, the interest FESTIVAL FOUNDERS be nearly as much fun. by artists to participate, and the many Joella Foulds community groups and volunteers who Max MacDonald Our dedicated staff and hundreds of step up each year that Celtic Colours volunteers are excited to unveil the FESTIVAL STAFF continues to grow. Our sincere thanks treasures of this years’ program. We hope Dawn Beaton Artistic Director goes to every organization, business and you’re excited too. Mike MacSween Executive Director individual that supports us each year. Our Jason Jardine Marketing Director success is your success! Mora Purcell Office Manager We are forever indebted to the David Douglas Sales Manager Thanks as well to our dedicated Board of communities across Cape Breton who Dave Mahalik Communications Officer Directors, to our government partners at proudly roll out the welcome mat to Linda Murray Venue Liaison every level, and our corporate sponsors ensure you experience the uniqueness of Yvette Rogers Outreach Coordinator Shauna Walters Production Coordinator who provide support and value that this wonderful place. Your appreciation and enthusiasm makes us even more Rhoda MacCormick Volunteer Coordinator greatly helps us in our efforts. Kate Hartigan Box Office Supervisor grateful. So, thank you. Dale Fahey Box Office Staff Our staff works tirelessly all year putting Blair Brown & Lee Price Transportation Coordination the pieces together in a way that makes Our Board, staff, volunteers and partners Declan O’Doherty Chief Stage Manager it look simple and seamless. This isn’t are pleased you came. Get on your feet! Dave Hillier Technical Director always easy and we thank them for the Shauna MacDonald Festival Club Manager passion and commitment they bring to Kelly Peck, Shane MacDougall Festival Club Stage Managers Celtic Colours. FMAV Technical Production Vibe Creative Group Branding & Graphic Design Last but not least, thank you for your Marcato Digital Solutions Database Design Video and Live Stream Production interest. Your passion for what we do NovaStream Causeway Digital Website Development helps motivate us to make sure we deliver Cape Breton Music Industry Cooperative on your commitment to us. We look Presenters and Media Program forward to seeing you in October! FESTIVAL INFORMATION

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PRESENTERS AND CELTIC COLOURS share their musical, dance and MEDIA PROGRAM COMMUNITY INITIATIVES storytelling talents through participatory workshops. This program is delivered The Presenters and Media Program is Celtic Colours recognizes the importance through current after-school program designed to showcase Cape Breton artists of keeping traditions alive. Beyond providers, reaching a broad audience of and the Celtic Colours International the nine-day festival, time and effort youth aged 5-15. Festival to targeted festival buyers, is placed on creating opportunities to directors and select media. Since the present traditional cultures, from here 2018 AUDIENCE SURVEY Festival’s inception, national and and elsewhere, to the community international music industry delegates at large. This year, with the and media have gathered at Celtic support of the Cape Colours for networking, access to Since 2014, TD Bank Group has provided Breton University’s concerts, and Cape Breton artists. support for the Celtic Colours in the Centre for Sound Resulting media coverage has assisted Schools program. This performance- Communities, under the direction of Dr. in the promotion of the Festival, local based presentation, featuring artists Marcia Ostashewski, the Festival will artists and Cape Breton Island. This from the Celtic Colours lineup, is be conducting an audience survey at a development of industry relationships delivered to students and teachers across selection of concerts. Students from the has seen continued success in facilitating Cape Breton Island each spring and fall. School of Business Administration will the export of Cape Breton musicians to Over the years this program has been ask you to participate in our survey, and national and international stages. presented to thousands of students in we hope you will. These surveys, which This program is coordinated by the both rural and urban communities. we conduct regularly, provide the Cape Breton Music Industry Cooperative. Festival with helpful feedback that is Additional support has been provided taken into consideration as we plan for For more information please contact by TD Bank Group future years. Details from these surveys [email protected] this year to include a also support our efforts to secure funding series of After School and corporate partnerships. Please say Sessions where hello to our survey team when you see professional artists them, and take a moment to complete and culture bearers the survey. We appreciate it. FESTIVAL INFORMATION

COMMUNITY CULTURAL EXPERIENCES FESTIVAL DRIVE’ERS If you’re looking for a way to enhance your Celtic Colours experience, or The Festival Volunteer Drive’ers become more immersed in the culture, consider making daily Cultural Experiences Association is an incorporated not-for- an essential part of your plans. profit society. Formed in August 2004, the Association’s membership is made up of The Learning Opportunities Have some dinner before your individuals who volunteer as Drivers with series will entertain and enlighten show, spend an afternoon the Celtic Colours International Festival. you with a variety of Workshops, enjoying lunch, or grab some Drivers further their volunteer time by Presentations, Demonstrations and breakfast to start your travels. The selling performing artists’ and Celtic Lectures on music, dance, art, craft, and Community Meals offer an op- Colours CDs at venues during the Festival. community heritage. portunity to break bread together Proceeds from these sales are directed to and share a home-cooked meal. the Association and sustain its sponsorship At Participatory Events you are programs. welcome as a spectator or as part Looking for Local Food? THE FRANK "BIG SAMPIE" AWARD grants of the program, as Community Square This symbol indicates a young, up-and-coming artist, in the Dances, Sessions, Milling Frolics and local products that have been grown Celtic Arts, recording studio time. Between Kitchen Rackets give you the opportu- and harvested in Nova Scotia. 2006 and 2017 more than $27,000 has nity to immerse yourself in the action. been awarded. Farmers Markets give you an Cape Breton Island’s spectacular opportunity to meet and THE JOHN ALLAN CAMERON BURSARY scenery is magical, so we’ve added support local producers. Pick up some is available to Cape Breton students of a series of Outdoor Events. Guided locally grown food, honey, and Colaisde Na Gàidhlig / The Gaelic College. Walks, Hikes, and Boat Tours put you handmade goods. Forty-seven students have been awarded in the fresh air. more than $32,000 since its creation IN ASSOCIATION WITH All Cultural Experiences EN ASSOCIATION AVEC in 2006. The Visual Art / Heritage Craft are hosted by community series offers a wide variety of fine groups, galleries, guilds, The Association has also awarded more art and heritage craft events. Exhibi- museums and non-profit than $11,000 in travel bursaries over tions, Demonstrations and Workshops organizations from all the years to several individuals and 13 celebrate the creative spirit that thrives over Cape Breton Island, groups assisting them to attend dance on Cape Breton Island. in association with competitions, performances, and a Celtic Colours. student exchange group to Scotland. [email protected]

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NIGHTLY SHOWS (Starting Friday October 5)

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and far. It also serves as a spot to wind Colaisde Na Gàidhlig / down and catch up with friends at the Gaelic College, St. Ann’s end of the day. Performance is by $20 • 11pm Nightly • invitation only and depends upon 19 & over, photo ID required artist availability on any given night. 14 Half price with a ticket stub from The performance schedule is not a show the same day posted in advance.

One of the most popular features of North Shore singer-songwriter Buddy Celtic Colours each year is the Festival MacDonald hosts the nightly Club. Located at the Gaelic College in festivities. Cabbioke by NSLC will make St. Ann’s, the licensed Festival Club sure you arrive safe by providing a free opens as the evening concerts are shuttle service that runs between closing, offering an opportunity for Baddeck area hotels and the Gaelic Festival artists to showcase in a more College, supported in part by Victoria informal setting, or to get a session in County. with friends and colleagues from near

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INTERACTIVE EXHIBIT FIBRE FESTIVAL

ROOM TOUR Baddeck Volunteer Fire Department Celtic Music Interpretive Centre, Judique Community Centre, Baddeck

9:00 am - 5:00 pm • $6 10:00 am - 5:00 pm • $2 Take a journey through the history of Show and sale of a wide variety of Cape Breton music, try your hand at handcrafts created by local artists playing the fiddle, learn to step dance, working in fibre. or learn some Gaelic words and phrases contact: Dianne Quimby at your own pace. 902-945-2226 • [email protected] contact: Celtic Music Interpretive Centre hosted by South Haven Weavers’ Guild and 902-787-2708 • [email protected] Baddeck Quilt Guild hosted by Celtic Music Interpretive Centre ELIZABETH VINCENT EXHIBIT: FIDDLES PLAY SPOONS WITH US HOMELANDS La Place des arts Père Anselme J. Franklin Wright Gallery, ON FIRE Chiasson, Chéticamp Port Hawkesbury Natalie MacMaster 10:00 am / 1:00 pm • $15 10:00 am - 8:00 pm • free Blazin’ Fiddles Elizabeth Vincent has worked and lived Allan MacDonald Choose between 10-11am or 1-2pm. Par- ticipants of all ages will learn the history in both England and Canada, presently & Paul MacDonald of spoon playing, how the spoons are in Nova Scotia. Working in a variety of & Rona Lightfoot made, and how to play them. media, her subjects include landscape, & Mairi MacInnes contact: Joeleen Larade portrait and still life studies. 902-224-1406 / 902-371-0189 contact: Paula Davis [email protected] 902-625-7891 • [email protected] Port Hawkesbury Civic Centre, hosted by Le Conseil des arts de Chéticamp hosted by: J. Franklin Wright Gallery Port Hawkesbury 7:30 pm • $70/60/50/40 15 PARADOXICAL: ART & CRAFT TRANSITIONS We are excited to welcome home Cape BY WELDON BONA Inverness County Centre for Breton’s fiddling ambassador Natalie Cape Breton Centre for Craft and the Arts, Inverness MacMaster to help open the 22nd Celtic Design, Sydney Colours International Festival. Fitting 11:00 am - 5:00 pm • free with this year’s theme of “Connected”, 10:00 am - 4:00 pm • free A contemporary textile exhibition by Natalie maintains her strong ties to our Weldon was an artist, graphic designer, the members of the Studio Art Quilt fair isle. Her roots are in Troy, Judique, communicator, and master gardener. Associates of the Atlantic Region. and Mabou just up the road from tonight’s This exhibition contrasts his whimsical contact: Elizabeth Whalley • 902-258-2533 concert. She shares this connection with hooked rugs and abstract ink drawings [email protected] the world every time she takes to the that depict surreal landscapes, people, hosted by Inverness County Centre stage, and makes sure her seven children and creatures. for the Arts feel the Cape Breton connection as well, contact: Holley Grant • 902-270-7491 teaching the music and dance, and making [email protected] CUSTOMS HOUSE OPEN HOUSE many trips home. We’ll meet our Artists hosted by Cape Breton Centre for Craft Customs House Artisan Incubator, in Residence—Cape Breton musician, and Design Port Hawkesbury producer, and researcher Paul MacDonald and renowned Scottish piper and scholar 11:00 am - 5:00 pm • free COLOURING FROM NATURE Allan MacDonald—and reconnect with Inverness County Centre for Come see the Customs House artists at Blazin’ Fiddles, who have been been the Arts, Inverness work in their studios and browse their showcasing the connections among products in the gallery shop. different Scottish fiddle traditions for 10:00 am - 4:00 pm • $115 contact: Tamsin Sloots • 902-539-7491 twenty years. Scottish Gaelic singers Mairi Learn how to make charcoal, botanical [email protected] MacInnes and Rona Lightfoot will also join drawing inks and watercolour paints hosted by Cape Breton Centre for Craft in this opening celebration of connecting from natural dyes and pigments. and Design with old friends and familiar faces. contact: Tamsin Sloots • 902-539-7491 [email protected] Nearby Meals: Supper at the hosted by Cape Breton Centre for Craft Causeway Page 16 / Roast Beef and Design Dinner in Grande Anse Page 16 CULTURAL EXPERIENCES & CONCERTS

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LEARNING SQUARE SET hosted by Englishtown’s own Michael Port Hawkesbury Civic Centre, Cavanaugh. Port Hawkesbury contact: Lavonne Grant • 902-295-2107 [email protected] 2:00 pm • $10 hosted by Bras d’Or Yacht Club No experience needed, just jump right in and a guide will teach you the basic steps SUPPER AT THE CAUSEWAY: to a Cape Breton Square set. FISHCAKES AND BEANS contact: Paula Davis Port Hastings Fire Hall, Port Hastings 902-625-7891 • [email protected] 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm • $15 hosted by Town of Port Hawkesbury Enjoy homemade fishcakes and baked BAILE NAN GÀIDHEAL beans served with breads and rolls, des- MILLING FROLIC sert, and tea or coffee. First come, first BIG POND Baile nan Gàidheal / Highland Village, served. No reservations. Iona contact: Margaret Ashford • 902-623-1780 GATHERING [email protected] 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm Cyril MacPhee hosted by St. David’s UCW museum charges apply Miller | MacDonald | Cormier Join us for a traditional milling frolic in ROAST BEEF DINNER Teho IN GRANDE ANSE a period setting at the Highland Village. Maureen Fraser Refreshments served. Royal Canadian Legion Branch 47, Grande Anse contact: Baile nan Gàidheal / Highland Big Pond Community Centre / Village • 902-725-2272 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm • $15 Fire Hall, Big Pond • 2:00 pm • $30 hosted by Baile nan Gàidheal / Highland Village A home-cooked roast beef dinner with With songs in Gaelic and English; all the trimmings, dessert, and tea or 16 tunes touching on the Scottish, Irish, LUNCH CEILIDH coffee. Cape Breton, Finnish, Swedish, and Celtic Music Interpretive contact: Linda Buchanan • 902-345-2290 Norwegian folk traditions; fiddles, Centre, Judique 902-345-2610 • [email protected] pipes, whistles and guitars; and steps hosted by Royal Canadian Legion Branch 47 11:30 am - 3:00 pm • $6 • menu pricing that will leave you breathless, this matinee may put to the test the popular QUARRY POINT QUILT GUILD Enjoy lunch in a fun atmosphere aphorism that music is “the universal SHOW AND SALE featuring local food and drinks and live language”. It’s safe to say that most St. Mary’s Church, Glace Bay Cape Breton music with Olivier will have no trouble understanding Broussard, Allan Dewar and friends. 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm • free / donation beloved Cape Breton singer-songwriter contact: Celtic Music Interpretive Centre Cyril MacPhee’s heartfelt lyrics or the Members of Quarry Point Quilt Guild 902-787-2708 • [email protected] rich delivery of his songs. Fewer may will display their hand-crafted items for hosted by Celtic Music Interpretive Centre understand the words when Anita sale, including runners, baby quilts and MacDonald sings, but the feeling and COMMUNITY CEILIDH more. emotion don’t lie far beneath the AT THE CAUSEWAY contact: Pat MacIntyre • 902-842-1021 surface in Gaelic song. Along with Port Hastings Museum, Port Hastings hosted by Quarry Point Quilt Guild Ben Miller and Zakk Cormier, she will 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm • donation also have some great tunes to share SQUARE DANCE IN CREIGNISH from the album they released together A community sing-along in the local Creignish Recreation Centre, earlier this year. This afternoon we get museum. Bring your instruments and Creignish our first look at fiddle-playing Finnish voices to share tunes and songs. 9:00 pm - 12:00 am duo Teho who wrap their regional contact: Karen Mudge • 902-625-3326 adults $10; youth $5, under 12 free musical influences with a touch of [email protected] bebop swagger and western swing style. hosted by Port Hastings Historical Society An all ages square dance featuring And no gathering would be complete live music from Shelly Campbell and without dance so we’ve invited Maureen OPEN MIC JAM SESSION friends. Early birds can get a free Fraser along to show us her steps. Bras d’Or Yacht Club, Baddeck workshop at 8:30pm. hosted by Big Pond Community Council 2:00 pm - 6:00 pm • donation contact: Ian Cameron • 902-625-0128 [email protected] Nearby Meal: Baked Ham and Bring your instrument and join us for hosted by Creignish Recreation Centre Scalloped Potato Supper Page 21 our daily Open Mic Jam, CULTURAL EXPERIENCES & CONCERTS CULTURAL EXPERIENCES

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INVERNESS CÒMHLA CRUINN: SATURDAY NIGHT TO INVERNESS GATHERED AT THE SAVOY Blazin’ Fiddles TOGETHER Karen Matheson Neil Beaton Rona Lightfoot & Donald Shaw & Jackie Dunn MacIsaac & Mairi MacInnes Cathy Ann MacPhee Adrianne Chapman Shelly Campbell & Allan Dewar & Kathleen MacInnes Donnie Campbell St. Matthew’s United Church, Lewis MacKinnon & Jinks O’Neill Inverness • 2:00 pm • $30 Christmas Island Fire Hall, Christmas Island • 2:00 pm • $25 Savoy Theatre, Glace Bay Inverness, on the western coast of 7:30 pm • $40/35/30 Cape Breton, has always had a certain There is a long history of Gaelic 17 kinship with its namesake in Scotland, tradition in Christmas Island, where Donald Shaw and Karen Matheson through language, music, culture and the culture has been practiced and performed at the first Celtic Colours ancestry. Bruce MacGregor, a founding treasured for generations. The annual in 1997 with Scottish folk group member of Scottish group Blazin’ Féis an Eilein has been a community Capercaillie. Universally recognized as Fiddles, makes his way from Inverness cornerstone since the early 1990s, one of the finest Gaelic singers alive to Inverness to play in the picturesque playing a key role in encouraging today, Karen’s exquisite voice has been St. Matthew’s United Church. It’ll the community to preserve and a foundation of the group’s traditional be a full house with this boisterous promote their Gaelic culture. And an Gaelic and contemporary English and energetic six-piece band on the integral part of that culture involves songs and tunes since being formed by little church stage. Judique’s Neil the sharing of music—for work, for accordion and keyboard player Donald Beaton and Jackie Dunn MacIsaac, play, good times and bad. The group Shaw in the 1980s. It is a true pleasure from Antigonish County, were among of singers, composers and players to welcome these two extraordinary a group of young musicians that gathered together for this afternoon’s performers back for the first time in included many of this generation’s concert expresses all that and more. more than 20 years. Celebrated Gaelic best-known players—like Natalie, This intimate community hall has singer Cathy Ann MacPhee was also Ashley, Wendy, Lucy and Dwayne proven an ideal setting for sharing the at the Festival in its first year. She’s —who would be featured as The experience of milling frolics, Gaelic been back many times since and one Next Generation in a concert series songs, and fiddle, dance and piping of those times was in 2012, sharing organized by Stan Chapman. Now, traditions over the years. Today it’s the Savoy Theatre stage with South some 25 years later, Neil and Jackie are about who’s playing with whom, for Uist native Kathleen MacInnes. They reconnecting here today. Ingonish- the musicians as much as the audience. will reconnect here tonight in the based singer Adrianne Chapman has Get set for another memorable fine tradition of Gaelic song. Local been described as having “the voice of afternoon of traditional and Gaelic favourites Donnie Campbell and Jinks an angel”. What could be more fitting influenced music and culture in O’Neill, with their vast repertoire of for an afternoon concert in a church? Christmas Island. music from the folk revival, classic hosted by country, ‘50s and ‘60s rock and roll hosted by Comunn Féis an Eilein St. Matthew’s United Church and the traditional music of Ireland, Scotland and Cape Breton completes Nearby Meal: Squash Soup Luncheon Nearby Meal: Àros na Mara: Lunch the lineup for this Saturday night at Page 20 and Learn Page 20 the Savoy. CONCERTS

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CAUSEWAY IN PRAISE PJILA’SI: CROSSING OF HOME A WAGMATCOOK Doris Mason Joella Foulds & Allie Bennett WELCOME Rita Rankin & Joanne MacIntyre Rura Còig Fiona MacGillivray Kimberley Fraser Alex Kusturok Marilyn MacDonald MacKinnon & Troy MacGillivray & Brenda Stubbert & Howie MacDonald Sabra MacGillivray Darrell Keigan Mairi Rankin & Celtic Touch Dancers Mi’kmaw Singers & Dancers Ellen MacPhee Boularderie School, Wagmatcook Culture and Heritage 18 SAERC (Strait Area Education Boularderie • 7:30 pm • $30 Centre, Wagmatcook • 7:30 pm • $35 Recreation Centre), Port Hawkesbury • 7:30 pm • $45/40 One of the questions people “from Pjila’si means welcome in Mi’kmaq, away” have about living on Cape Breton and Wagmatcook, like all First Nations “The Canso Causeway’s a wonder they is how long does it take before you can communities of Cape Breton, has say / It’s mainland rock and mainland say you’re from here? Joella Foulds always been a very welcoming one. clay / Many do come but they don’t plan settled here 40 years ago, not far from This will be evident when the Mi’kmaw to stay / It was built for going away.” tonight’s concert, and after a lifetime Singers & Dancers extend a warm So goes Albert MacDonald’s tribute to of dedication to the arts, culture and welcome to start the night off right the Canso Strait, with music by John heritage of the Island there is no longer with song, dance, and drumming. Gillis. “The Causeway” is ripe with any question where she is “from”. Tonight’s concert also welcomes symbolism—on the one hand, it’s a path A singer and songwriter long before Alex Kusturok, a Métis fiddler from to the wealth and opportunity of the becoming a festival founder and arts Manitoba who counts Cape Breton west; on the other, an indelible link to advocate, Joella recently released her and Quebecois fiddle styles among his “home”. Taken literally, the Causeway is debut album. Scottish band Rura also influences. The Celtic Colours first- the physical manifestation of this year’s has a new album out, coincidentally timer is excited to be teamed up with theme, Connected. And the very talented called, In Praise of Home. Award-winning Cape Breton icon Brenda Stubbert, performers featured in tonight’s dancer Sabra MacGillivray is a big fan of who has played with, and composed a concert—singers, pipers, fiddlers and Rura, so it will be exciting to see them tune for, his mother Champion fiddler piano-players, from Cape Breton, PEI, connect on stage tonight with her Celtic Patti Kusturok. Darrell Keigan is a and nearby Pictou County—each have Touch Dancers. And it’s always a treat well-established and engaging singer their own connection to the rock, clay to see fiddle and piano-playing dancers around Cape Breton who embodies the and steel construction that links the Troy MacGillivray and Kimberley Fraser spirit of the bard with his entertaining Island to the mainland. Whether it’s get together for some tunes. Let’s get repertoire of songs and stories. Topping taken them away, brought them back set to make them all feel at home here it all off is award-winning, world- home, or simply provided passage for in Boularderie tonight. travelling Cape Breton supergroup Còig. musical adventure and inspiration, these hosted by Ross Ferry Fire Department and Be prepared for a night of songs, tunes, performers are linked together. the Big Wave Festival steps, and laughs with this bunch.

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CELTIC BREAKFAST Participants of all ages will learn the QUARRY POINT QUILT GUILD Holy Trinity Anglican Church Hall, history of spoon playing, how the SHOW AND SALE Port Hawkesbury spoons are made, and how to play St. Mary’s Church, Glace Bay them. 8:30 am - 11:30 am • adult $8; Child $4 10:00 am - 4:00 pm • free / donation contact: Joeleen Larade Enjoy a breakfast of eggs, ham, home 902-224-1406 / 902-371-0189 Members of Quarry Point Quilt Guild will fries, homemade beans, toast, juice, [email protected] display their projects, along with hand- tea, and coffee. hosted by Le Conseil des arts de Chéticamp crafted items for sale like runners, contact: Bob Burgess • 902-625-1247 pillow cases, baby quilts and more. [email protected] SHARING STORIES: contact: Pat MacIntyre • 902-842-1021 hosted by Holy Trinity Anglican Church TEA AND CONVERSATION hosted by Quarry Point Quilt Guild Boisdale Volunteer Fire Department, CAPE BRETON FARMERS’ Boisdale ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE MARKET OPEN STUDIO 10:00 am - 12:00 pm • free Cape Breton Farmers’ Market, Cape Breton Centre for Craft and Sydney Collecting and sharing stories is a big Design, Sydney part of the Boisdale Historical Society. 10:00 am - 4:00 pm • free 8:30 am - 1:00 pm • Free Come in and share your stories, and we A wide variety of local produce, honey, will share some of our own. A visual Ever wonder about the genesis and meats, prepared foods, and artisanal display will be part of the session. making of a craft product? Meet artists wares can be found at this local contact: Joe MacDonald • 902-871-2013 who are on the cutting edge of their community market. [email protected] medium in the Centre’s studios. hosted by Cape Breton Farmers’ Market hosted by Boisdale Historical Society contact: Holley Grant • 902-270-7491 [email protected] ECOPRINTING STEP DANCE / hosted by Cape Breton Centre for Craft SQUARE DANCE WORKSHOP Inverness County Centre and Design for the Arts, Inverness Waterfront Centre, Whycocomagh 19 FIBRE FESTIVAL 9:30 am • $10 10:00 am - 4:00 pm Baddeck Volunteer Fire Department $115 includes materials Hone your dancing skills. This Community Centre, Baddeck workshop for all levels starts with the Using autumn leaves and mineral 10:00 am - 5:00 pm • $2 Cape Breton style of step dancing, mordants, try your hand at printing followed by square dance sets. on fabric with colours of nature. Show and sale of a wide variety of contact: Burton MacIntyre Participants will learn how to prepare, handcrafts created by local artists 902-756-2769 / 902-631-2226 dye and print fabrics. working in fibre. [email protected] contact: Tamsin Sloots • 902-539-7491 contact: Dianne Quimby • 902-945-2226 hosted by Whycocomagh Volunteer Fire [email protected] [email protected] Department hosted by Cape Breton Centre for Craft hosted by South Haven Weavers’ Guild and and Design Baddeck Quilt Guild ISLE MADAME PUBLIC PARADOXICAL: MARKET ELIZABETH VINCENT EXHIBIT: Le Noir Landing, Arichat ART & CRAFT BY WELDON BONA HOMELANDS Cape Breton Centre for Craft and J. Franklin Wright Gallery, 9:30 am - 12:00 pm • free Design, Sydney Port Hawkesbury Featuring a variety of vendors with 10:00 am - 4:00 pm • free 10:00 am - 8:00 pm • free products from the local area; artisan crafts, baked goods, produce and more. Weldon was an artist, graphic designer, Elizabeth Vincent has worked and lived hosted by Development Isle Madame communicator, and master gardener. in both England and Canada, presently Association This exhibition contrasts his whimsical in Nova Scotia. Working in a variety of hooked rugs and abstract ink drawings media, her subjects include landscape, PLAY SPOONS WITH US that depict surreal landscapes, people, portrait and still life studies. La Place des arts Père and creatures. contact: Paula Davis • 902-625-7891 Anselme Chiasson, Chéticamp contact: Holley Grant • 902-270-7491 [email protected] [email protected] hosted by J. Franklin Wright Gallery 10:00 am / 1:00 pm • $15 hosted by Cape Breton Centre for Craft and Choose between 10-11am or 1-2pm. Design

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STORYTELLING TOUR TRANSITIONS Don’t forget to AND MILLING FROLIC Inverness County Centre for remove the Baile nan Gàidheal / the Arts, Inverness Highland Village, Iona pull-out 11:00 am - 5:00 pm • free 10:30 am - 12:30 pm • $25 A contemporary textile exhibition by road map on Come join us for a special storytelling the members of the Studio Art Quilt page 36 tour of the Highland Village. This Associates of the Atlantic Region folklife experience will give you insight contact: Elizabeth Whalley into the lives and stories of Nova Scotia 902-258-2533 • [email protected] Gaels. Reservations required. hosted by Inverness County Centre for the Arts contact: Baile nan Gàidheal / Highland Village • 902-725-2272 CUSTOMS HOUSE OPEN HOUSE hosted by Baile nan Gàidheal / Highland Customs House Artisan Incubator, Village Port Hawkesbury

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INTERPRETIVE TOUR Come see the Customs House artists at Goat Island Trail, Eskasoni work in their studios and browse their products in the gallery shop. 11:00 am - 1:00 pm • $15 contact: Tamsin Sloots • 902-539-7491 On this self-guided tour along a scenic [email protected] trail you will meet a variety of heritage hosted by Cape Breton Centre for Craft interpreters who share their knowledge and Design of Mi’kmaq traditional skills and arts. contact: Sandra MacDonald INTERACTIVE EXHIBIT 20 902-322-2279 • [email protected] ROOM TOUR hosted by Eskasoni Cultural Journeys Celtic Music Interpretive Centre, Judique ÀROS NA MARA LUNCH, LEARN & FARMERS MARKET 11:00 am - 5:00 pm • $6 Iona Port, Iona Take a journey through the history of Cape Breton music, try your hand at 11:00 am - 2:00 pm playing the fiddle, learn to step dance, $10 lunch; market free or learn some Gaelic words and phrases Come and learn about the Bras d’Or at your own pace. Lake. Enjoy soup, biscuits and apple contact: Celtic Music Interpretive Centre crisp ($10) and peruse the market of 902-787-2708 • [email protected] local produce, baked goods and more. hosted by Celtic Music Interpretive Centre contact: Murdell MacNeil • 902-725-2348 [email protected] SQUASH SOUP LUNCHEON Available this fall hosted by Central Cape Breton Inverness County Centre for Community Ventures Celtic Colours the Arts, Inverness 11:30 am - 1:30 pm • $15 Live Volume Six UNDERGROUND TOUR OF A COAL MINE Enjoy a soup of the Art Centre’s own Pre-order at Cape Breton Miners’ Museum, celtic-colours.com/live2018 garden squash, sourdough bread, Glace Bay traditional and unique preserves,

LIVE VOLUME SIX 11:00 am - 4:00 pm Adult $16; Youth $13 ferments, sauces and sides, plus natural sodas, herbal teas and a yummy dessert Call to book your 90 minute tour. You handmade with Cape Breton-grown will be guided by a former coal miner ingredients into the mine where you’ll hear stories contact: Elizabeth Whalley • 902-258-2533 of his life. [email protected] contact: Mary Pat Mombourquette hosted by Inverness County Centre 902-849-4522 • [email protected] for the Arts hosted by Cape Breton Miners Museum CULTURAL EXPERIENCES CULTURAL EXPERIENCES

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LUNCH CEILIDH contact: Ella Nicholas BAKED HAM AND SCALLOPED Celtic Music Interpretive [email protected] POTATO SUPPER Centre, Judique hosted by We’koqma’q First Nation Sydney Forks Recreation Centre, Sydney Forks 11:30 am - 3:00 pm ALL AGES FAMILY CEILIDH $6; menu pricing New Dawn Centre for 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm • $15 Enjoy lunch in a fun atmosphere Social Innovation, Sydney Enjoy a baked ham and scalloped potato

featuring local food and drinks and live 2:00 pm • free / donation dinner with veggies, a fresh tea biscuit, Cape Breton music with Hailee LeFort dessert, and tea or coffee. and friends. Bring the kids out for some music and contact: Gail Leighton • 902-562-8012 contact: Celtic Music Interpretive Centre dance. Artists present an informative and [email protected] 902-787-2708 • [email protected] fun afternoon of tunes and steps. hosted by Sydney Forks Rec Center hosted by Celtic Music Interpretive Centre contact: 902-567-3000 / 888-355-7744 hosted by Celtic Colours International FISHCAKES AND FIDDLES Festival FIBRE FESTIVAL WORKSHOP: Port Hawkesbury Civic Centre, BASKET WEAVING WITH Port Hawkesbury DONNA POULETTE OPEN MIC JAM SESSION Baddeck Volunteer Fire Department Bras d’Or Yacht Club, Baddeck 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm • $20 Community Centre, Baddeck 2:00 pm - 6:00 pm • donation Fishcake dinner with live music. Within 12:30 pm - 4:30 pm walking distance from the Causeway Bring your instrument and join us for $50 includes materials Crossing concert at SAERC. our daily Open Mic Jam, hosted by contact: Paula Davis Learn to weave a small Mi’kmaw basket Englishtown’s own Michael Cavanaugh. 902-625-7891 • [email protected] made with natural local materials. contact: Lavonne Grant • 902-295-2107 hosted by Town of Port Hawkesbury Limited space, please pre-register. [email protected] contact: Dianne Quimby hosted by Bras d’Or Yacht Club MABOU GAELIC SONG CIRCLE 902-945-2226 • [email protected] An Drochaid: Mabou Gaelic 21 hosted by South Haven Weavers’ Guild and SONGS AND SUPPER & Historical Society, Mabou Baddeck Quilt Guild Englishtown Community 7:00 pm • $10 Hall, Englishtown SHIP HARBOUR SONG SESSION This Gaelic song circle, held in a small 2:30 pm - 6:00 pm • $30 The Evergreen Club, Port Hawkesbury community museum, features local This two-part event features songs and 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm • donation Gaelic singers and a visiting Festival stories from local artists (2:30-4:00), guest artist who will share songs. It will Enjoy an interactive afternoon of songs followed by supper (4:00-6:00) made be like they are in your living room. lead by local singers, Patrick Lamey and by the community volunteers with local contact: Duncan Campbell Adam Cook, with participation from the recipes and ingredients. 902-945-2652 • [email protected] audience. contact: Jenni MacLean hosted by Comunn Féis Mhàbu contact: Adam Cooke • 902-625-8863 902-537-2908 • [email protected] [email protected] hosted by Englishtown Community Hall WEST MABOU FAMILY hosted by Port Hastings Historical Society SQUARE DANCE BEHIND THE MUSIC WITH West Mabou Hall, West Mabou MI’KMAQ CULTURAL GLENN GRAHAM SHOWCASE Celtic Music Interpretive Centre, 9:00 pm - 12:00 am • $8; under 12 free children must be accompanied by an Skye River Trail, Judique adult We’koqma’q First Nation 3:00 pm • donation West Mabou Square Dance is a well- 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm • $25 Glenn demonstrates what makes Cape established traditional square dance that features some of the Island’s finest Explore the traditional ways of the Breton’s Celtic music unique, explains musicians. All ages are welcome. Mi’kmaq with various showcases and how the mind of a fiddler/piano player contact: Derrick & Melody Cameron demonstrations along a scenic trail, works when choosing tunes “on the [email protected] offering you hands-on learning about fly”, what makes for good “swing” at a hosted by West Mabou Hall Mi’kmaq art and culture, or listen to a dance, and answers audience questions. compelling storyteller. Includes a light contact: Celtic Music Interpretive Centre meal to follow. 902-787-2708 • [email protected] hosted by Celtic Music Interpretive Centre CONCERTS

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80 YEARS DANCING UP STEP INTO ON THE BAY A SUÊTE THE PAST Rodney MacDonald La Swing du Suête David Power & Glenn Graham Scott Macmillan & Triona Marshall Matt MacIsaac & Mac Morin & Colin Grant Andrea Beaton & Patrick Gillis & Maybelle Chisholm McQueen & Véronique Plasse Ellen MacPhee Brent Aucoin & Leanne Aucoin Nipper MacLeod Hailee LeFort Pellerin Brothers Fortress of Louisbourg Chapel, & Cailean MacLean Gerard Beaton Louisbourg • 6:00 pm • $110 Colaisde na Gàidhlig / The Gaelic La Place des arts Père Anselme 22 Go back in time this evening as one of College, St. Ann’s • 2:00 pm • $35 Chiasson, Chéticamp the Festival’s most popular concerts 2:00 pm • $30/25 The story of the Gaelic College starts invites you to Step into the Past at the Fortress of Louisbourg. The Fortress, in 1938 when A.W.R. MacKenzie and La Swing du Suête is still on a high after North America’s largest historical community members wanted to create their 20th anniversary last year, when reconstruction, offers a glimpse of life a memorial for the Gaelic pioneers of they danced their way into everyone’s in colonial Cape Breton around the Cape Breton. Classes were taught on heart during our opening show in 1740s. If you are fortunate enough to the Gaelic language, grammar, songs, Sydney. Now they are back on their get a ticket to this perennially sold history and music. Eighty years later home turf for this annual dance show. out show, you are in for a real treat. and Colaisde Na Gàidhlig is as strong They’ll welcome siblings Brent and The evening begins with an authentic, as ever. Today we’ll celebrate 80 years Leanne Aucoin who have connections traditional 18th century meal, served with College CEO Rodney MacDonald to the area on their father’s side. in period costume and character by and his cousin Glenn Graham who will Maybelle Chisholm McQueen, who candlelight. An after-dinner walk, have your feet tapping. Nova Scotia has lived just down the road her whole guided by the glow of lanterns through native Matt MacIsaac will be on hand to life, and Colin Grant had the audience the cobbled streets, takes you to the represent the College’s long standing hopping last year in Boisdale. With lovely chapel in the King’s Bastion for history of award-winning pipe bands Scott Macmillan they’ll have another a night of acoustic songs and tunes. and Ellen MacPhee, a student then a go here today, providing lifting tunes Nipper MacLeod, a former coal miner teacher at the College, will bring along for the dancers. The Pellerins, a staple from New Waterford and a lead singer her border pipes. Haliee LeFort, one in our dancing history, will reunite with with the Men of the Deeps, is sure to the newest employees, along with their Acadian roots and Gerard Beaton, share some of his many mining and Mac Morin, Patrick Gillis and Cailean a dancer from nearby Mabou, will make Cape Breton songs. We’ll be treated to MacLean, no strangers to the Hall of his Festival debut. Get ready for some some pipes and harp from David Power the Clans, will round out this afternoon stellar music and spectacular steps! on St. Ann’s Bay. Suas e! and Triona Marshall while Andrea hosted by Beaton and Véronique Plasse will hosted by Le Conseil des arts de Chéticamp Colaisde na Gàidhlig / The Gaelic College contribute some fiddle tunes to this unique experience. Nearby Meals: Acadian Culinary hosted by Nearby Meal: St. Ann’s Thanksgiving Experience & Dine With Les Fortress Louisbourg Association Dinner Page 25 Mi-Carêmes Page 26 CONCERTS CONCERTS

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BARDS OF ALONG THE BIG CEILIDH AT BOISDALE SHORES OF HOGAMA THE BIG FIDDLE Cathy Ann MacPhee Rura Blazin’ Fiddles & Kathleen MacInnes Howie MacDonald Còig Rona Lightfoot & Mary Beth Carty Fiona MacGillivray & Mairi MacInnes & Hilda Chiasson Cape Breton University Pipers Allan MacDonald Buddy MacDonald Joan Harriss Cruise Pavilion, & Paul MacDonald Stephanie MacDonald Sydney • 7:30 pm • $50/40 Breabach • Sarah MacInnis & Susan MacLean Now here’s a ceilidh worthy of being Boisdale Volunteer Fire Department, Whycocomagh Education Centre, named for the landmark fiddle just 23 Boisdale • 7:30 pm • $30 Whycocomagh • 7:30 pm • $30/25 outside the venue. Blazin’ Fiddles has been showcasing Scotland’s regional The tradition of descriptive and There’s a popular song that celebrates fiddle styles for 20 years, with each satirical Gaelic poetry and song dates “raisin’ the jar and raisin’ hell, there’s member of the group drawing on the back to Ireland’s Iron Age, continued plenty of stories that they could tell” distinct flavour of music from their well into the 18th century in Scotland as it recounts good times “along part of the Highlands and Islands. The and extended into the early 20th the shores of Hogoma”. Hogoma award-winning, six-piece ensemble century in Cape Breton. Among the is what the Gaelic settlers called captures Scottish fiddle music’s communities on the Island where this Whycocomagh, a Mi’kmaq word for variety, energy and sensitivity like style of composing flourished were “head of the waters”, and a lively no other band. Tonight is their last Barrachois, Boisdale and Beaver Cove. community which has hosted sold- appearance at Celtic Colours this year, Through years of preservation efforts, out concerts since the Festival began. so don’t miss out! This is also Còig’s documenting and compiling these songs The song is a Rankin Family favourite, last night at this year’s Festival. The from the area, a collection was created and one fiddler Howie MacDonald Cape Breton supergroup has been on The Bards of Boisdale known as the that knows well, having played with them a roll since releasing their first album reflects the characters, culture and for many years. Whycocomagh’s own four years ago, collecting awards and everyday events of the late 19th century Stephanie MacDonald lends some local attracting rave reviews wherever Boisdale district. Tonight we’ll hear a flavour on fiddle with Susan MacLean they play. Còig also features regional few songs from the collection sung by from nearby Washabuck on piano, influences in their fiddle-playing, Scotland’s Cathy Ann, Rona, Kathleen, and Scottish quartet Rura continues through Chrissy Crowley’s Margaree Allan and Mairi and Cape Breton’s own their whirlwind visit to the Island. roots and Rachel Davis’ background Sarah MacInnis. Finishing off the night North Shore singer-songwriter Buddy in Baddeck. Cape Bretoners have a we’ll welcome Breabach, one of the MacDonald will tie it all together with tradition of pulling a lot of fiddles UK’s most dynamic and powerful bands, some songs to make this night along together, and tonight’s concert to the hills of Boisdale. the shores of Hogoma complete. continues that tradition along with hosted by hosted by some tunes from the newly-formed Boisdale Volunteer Fire Department Whycocomagh Volunteer Fire Department Cape Breton University Pipers, and some songs from the lovely and Nearby Meal: Local Harvest Nearby Meal: Whycocomagh Dinner talented Fiona MacGillivray. Thanksgiving Dinner Page 25 Page 26 CULTURAL EXPERIENCES

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PLAY SPOONS WITH US ELIZABETH VINCENT EXHIBIT: INTERACTIVE EXHIBIT La Place des arts Père Anselme HOMELANDS ROOM TOUR Chiasson, Chéticamp J. Franklin Wright Gallery, Celtic Music Interpretive Centre, Port Hawkesbury Judique 10:00 am / 1:00 pm • $15 10:00 am - 8:00 pm • free 11:00 am - 5:00 pm • $6 Choose between 10-11am or 1-2pm. Participants of all ages will learn the Elizabeth Vincent has worked and lived Take a journey through the history of history of spoon playing, how the in both England and Canada, presently Cape Breton music, try your hand at spoons are made, and how to play in Nova Scotia. Working in a variety of playing the fiddle, learn to step dance, them. media, her subjects include landscape, or learn some Gaelic words and phrases contact: Joeleen Larade 902-224-1406 / portrait and still life studies. at your own pace. 902-371-0189 • [email protected] contact: Paula Davis • 902-625-7891 contact: Celtic Music Interpretive Centre hosted by Le Conseil des arts de Chéticamp [email protected] 902-787-2708 • [email protected] hosted by J. Franklin Wright Gallery hosted by Celtic Music Interpretive Centre CELTIC COLOURS PUMPKIN CARVING CELTIC CHURCH SERVICE TRANSITIONS La Rigouèche, Chéticamp Visitor St. Ann’s Bay United Church, Inverness County Centre Centre, Chéticamp Indian Brook for the Arts, Inverness

10:00 am - 12:00 pm • free with park pass 11:00 am • free 11:00 am - 5:00 pm • free Join Park staff for this seasonal This Celtic Church Service will A contemporary textile exhibition by favourite activity. Pumpkins and incorporate Gaelic singing, Gaelic the members of the Studio Art Quilt carving tools provided, just bring your scriptures, Celtic hymns, and fiddle Associates of the Atlantic Region imagination and creativity. Drop in playing. There will be an explanation contact: Elizabeth Whalley anytime between 10am and noon. and demonstration of precenting of the 902-258-2533 • [email protected] contact: 902-224-2306 Psalms, a Scottish tradition. hosted by Inverness County Centre for 24 [email protected] contact: Elizabeth Ryan • 902-929-2211 the Arts hosted by Cape Breton Highlands [email protected] National Park hosted by St. Ann’s Bay United Church ACADIAN KITCHEN PARTY Seafood Stop, Chéticamp INTERMEDIATE NATURAL MI’KMAQ NATURE 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm • menu pricing DYEING INTERPRETIVE TOUR Inverness County Centre for the Arts, Goat Island Trail, Eskasoni The local tourism cooperative works Inverness with the village’s restaurants to offer 11:00 am - 1:00 pm • $15 Acadian music and cuisine for an 10:00 am - 4:00 pm • $115 On this self-guided tour along a scenic enjoyable lunch offering. Learn to naturally dye a rainbow of trail you will meet a variety of heritage contact: Jérémie Poirier • 902-224-2642 colours from local plants and exotic interpreters who share their knowledge [email protected] natural dyes with Vancouver-based of Mi’kmaq traditional skills and arts. hosted by La Société Saint-Pierre textile artist Caitlin ffrench. contact: Sandra MacDonald contact: Tamsin Sloots • 902-539-7491 902-322-2279 MABOU THANKSGIVING [email protected] [email protected] DINNER hosted by Cape Breton Centre for Craft hosted by Eskasoni Cultural Journeys St. Mary’s Parish Hall, Mabou and Design 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm • $15 MABOU MARKET FIBRE FESTIVAL Mabou Arena, Mabou A popular community dinner of roast Baddeck Volunteer Fire Department turkey with all the trimmings, first Community Centre, Baddeck 11:00 am - 2:00 pm • free / donation come first served. No reservations. hosted by St. Mary’s Parish 10:00 am - 5:00 pm • $2 This large market boasts the best of rural produce, seafood, meats, honey, Show and sale of a wide variety of artisan products, baked goods and more. handcrafts created by local artists hosted by Mabou Farmers Market working in fibre. contact: Dianne Quimby • 902-945-2226 [email protected] hosted by South Haven Weavers’ Guild and Baddeck Quilt Guild CULTURAL EXPERIENCES CULTURAL EXPERIENCES

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FIBRE FESTIVAL WORKSHOP: STORYTELLING TOUR KIRKIN O’ THE TARTANS

RUG HOOKING WITH AND MILLING FROLIC Farquarson Memorial Church, VIOLET ABRAHAM Baile nan Gàidheal / Middle River Baddeck Volunteer Fire Department Highland Village, Iona 3:00 pm • donation Community Centre, Baddeck 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm • $25 All denominations welcome for this 12:30 pm - 4:30 pm Come join us for a special storytelling rural church service with Gaelic singing, $50 includes materials tour of the Highland Village. This piping, and a blessing of tartans. Learn the Cape Breton style of rug folklife experience will give you insight contact: Gordon MacIver • 902-295-0250 hooking, completing a small piece to into the lives and stories of Nova Scotia [email protected] take home. Limited space. Gaels. Reservations required. hosted by Farquarson Memorial Church Please pre-register. contact: Baile nan Gàidheal / Highland contact: Dianne Quimby • 902-945-2226 Village • 902-725-2272 HEARTY BOWL OF DINNER [email protected] hosted by Baile nan Gàidheal / Highland Brooks Haven Seniors’ Recreation hosted by South Haven Weavers’ Guild Village Centre, Prime Brook and Baddeck Quilt Guild 3:00 pm - 6:30 pm • $15 SUNDAY CEILIDH DOORS OPEN FOR CHURCHES Celtic Music Interpretive Centre, Your choice of seafood chowder, Please check website for Judique beef chilli or vegetarian chilli with participating churches homemade rolls and biscuits, dessert, 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm • $8 and tea or coffee. 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm • free / donation Enjoy an authentic Ceilidh featuring live contact: Laurie MacCuish • 902-564-8073 Explore some of Cape Breton’s built music. Join in a square set, have a bite [email protected] or Lisa Côté heritage. Select churches in Inverness to eat and a drink, or just sit back and 902-371-8948 and Richmond counties are open for enjoy the music. [email protected] tours. contact: Celtic Music Interpretive Centre hosted by Brooks Haven Seniors’ contact: Marg Herdman • 902-227-8303 902-787-2708 • [email protected] Recreation Centre 25 [email protected] hosted by Celtic Music Interpretive Centre hosted by Heritage Trust of Nova Scotia LOCAL HARVEST OPEN MIC JAM SESSION THANKSGIVING DINNER ELDERS’ LUNCH AND Bras d’Or Yacht Club, Baddeck George’s River Firehall, George’s River DREAM CATCHER WORKSHOP 2:00 pm - 6:00 pm • donation 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm • $18 Membertou Heritage Park, Membertou Bring your instrument and join us for Enjoy a locally-sourced meal of 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm • $50 our daily Open Mic Jam, hosted by roast turkey, mashed potatoes and Create your own dream catcher, a Englishtown’s own Michael Cavanaugh. trimmings. Dessert, tea and coffee powerful part of indigenous culture. contact: Lavonne Grant • 902-295-2107 included. A traditional Mi’kmaw lunch will be [email protected] contact: Tanya Jessome 902-577-6085 provided. Maximum of 30 participants, hosted by Bras d’Or Yacht Club hosted by George’s River Firehall please register in advance. contact: Jeff Ward • 902-567-5333 BEGINNERS AUTUMN ST. ANN’S [email protected] PAINTING CLASS THANKSGIVING DINNER hosted by Membertou Heritage Park Brooks Haven Seniors’ Recreation Colaisde na Gàidhlig / The Gaelic Aboriginal Culture Centre Centre, Prime Brook College, St. Ann’s

4:30 pm - 6:00 pm • $15 WATERFRONT JAM SESSION 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm $30 includes materials Waterfront Centre, Whycocomagh A home cooked roast turkey dinner Learn how to paint an autumn-themed with mashed potatoes, seasonal 1:30 pm • $10; free with instrument canvas to take home with you. vegetables, stuffing and gravy. Dessert Players and listeners welcome at this contact: Laurie MacCuish 902-564-8073 and beverage included, cafeteria style afternoon jam session hosted by local [email protected] setting. Just steps away from the musicians. Bring your instrument and or Lisa Côté • 902-371-8948 afternoon concert. join in. [email protected] contact: Gail Montgomery contact: Burton MacIntyre • 902-756-2769 hosted by Brooks Haven Seniors’ 902-295-3411 • [email protected] [email protected] Recreation Centre hosted by Colaisde na Gàidhlig / hosted by Whycocomagh Volunteer Fire The Gaelic College Department CULTURAL EXPERIENCES & CONCERTS

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WHYCOCOMAGH THANKSGIVING DINNER Whycocomagh Waterfront Centre, Whycocomagh

5:00 pm - 6:30 pm • $20 Roast turkey dinner with all the trimmings, dessert and tea or coffee. Very close to the Whycocomagh Gathering concert. contact: Craig or Terry Gillis 902-295-0522 hosted by Whycocomagh Waterfront Centre UNAMA’KI JUDIQUE ACADIAN CULINARY EXPERIENCE MAWIO’MI: CONNECTIONS La Place des arts Père Anselme A CAPE BRETON Chiasson, Chéticamp Mary Frances & Michael Leahy GATHERING Neil Beaton & Kolten MacDonell 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm • $40 David Power Dawn & Margie Beaton Enjoy a three-course traditional Joe MacMaster • Sarah MacInnis Acadian meal of fricot (soup) with fresh & Triona Marshall bread, meat pie with locally grown salad Richard Poulette The MacNeil Sisters and blueberry cake made with wild & The Relatives & Tracey Dares MacNeil blueberries. Alex Kusturok contact: Joeleen Larade Judique Community Centre, Judique & Hilda Chiasson pm 26 902-224-1406 / 902-371-0189 7:30 • $35 [email protected] Denny Family Dancers hosted by Le Conseil des arts de Chéticamp “Now what line of MacMasters are you?” Sarah Denny Cultural Centre, might not be a common phrase heard DINE WITH LES MI-CARÊMES Eskasoni • 2:00 pm • $30 all over the Island, but it definitely is Centre de la Mi-Carême, in Judique where the connections run Grand Étang Harbour Unama’ki is the Mi’kmaw name deep. You can follow the musical genes for Cape Breton Island and today’s through the family tree. Neil Beaton hails 5:00 pm - 7:30 pm • $35 mawio’mi, or gathering, takes place from Little Judique, just down the road, Enjoy local tastes of the land with a in Eskasoni, where the traditions of while Kolten MacDonell is a little further soupe verte (vegetable soup), followed music, song, dance and storytelling are down and over the road in Glencoe. by fish cakes with salad from gardens celebrated. This mawio’mi welcomes Dawn and Margie are from Mabou, but in Margaree, and blueberry pie with piper David Power and harpist Triona their maternal roots are in Judique and berries from the Highlands. Marshall from Ireland, Métis fiddler St. Ninian’s. Sarah MacInnis calls West contact: 902-224-1016 Alex Kusturok, and sought-after Cape Mabou home, but half of her heart [email protected] Breton piano-player and dancer Hilda belongs to Judique where her mom Mary hosted by Société Mi-Carême Chiasson. Award-winning Eskasoni Elizabeth grew up. And Mabou is home for singer Richard Poulette emceed this the MacNeil Sisters whose mom Tracey FAMILY SQUARE DANCE concert last year and he returns to Dares toured with Natalie MacMaster for Glencoe Mills Hall, Glencoe Mills the stage this year with local band years. Two of Natalie’s children will get to The Relatives, whose popularity has share the stage with the MacNeil family 9:00 pm - 12:00 am • $8 remained strong throughout the tonight. And Joe MacMaster just happens The Glencoe Mills Family Square Maritimes, for more than 25 years. The to be Natalie’s nephew, a second cousin to Dance is a long-standing tradition in Denny Family Dancers are also back Sarah, and to Dawn and Margie! Join us as Inverness County. Live local music, all this year to share their vital traditional we celebrate these Judique Connections. ages welcomed. culture through song and dance. hosted by contact: Elizabeth Beaton 902-615-2647 hosted by Judique Community Centre Development hosted by Glencoe Mills Hall Eskasoni Band Council Association

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THE YOUNG ONES CELTIC ROOTS CRAIC’N CABARET The Young’uns AND BRANCHES Beòlach Miller | MacDonald | Cormier The Savoy Family Cajun Band Breabach Teho Andrea Beaton Pretty Archie The Campbell Sisters & Véronique Plasse Socks in the Frying Pan Rura St. Matthew Wesley United Membertou Trade and Convention Church, North Sydney Centre, Membertou • 7:30 pm • $40/35 D’Escousse Civic Improvement Hall, 7:30 pm • $30 D’Escousse • 7:30 pm • $30/25 OK, so you’ve made it through the first All these ‘young ones’ are certainly weekend and you’re ready to settle D’Escousse is one of the main carving out a name for themselves. down for the week ahead. Not so fast settlements on Isle Madame, off the 27 No matter the age of these artists, now, this is Thanksgiving weekend— southwest coast of Richmond County. they are making waves on both sides the long weekend—and it’s not quite Settled by Basque fishermen, who of the ocean. And isn’t age a relative over yet. If you’re feeling a little weary married into local Acadian families, Isle term? We didn’t ask just how young already, don’t worry, we’ve got just Madame would become 90% Acadian members of the Young ‘Uns are, nor the thing to lift your spirits and perk by the early 1800s, before Scottish does it matter. They’ll be coming you right up! Fiddles and pipes and and Irish immigration would see the from England to visit Celtic Colours steps and songs are the order of the Acadian population on the Isle drop for the first time and their youthful day, and it’s a cabaret so there’s plenty closer to half. While history tells us energy will make you feel young of time for each of these groups to that the Acadians were there first, as well! Anita MacDonald and Ben stretch out in their set. Plus there’s tonight’s concert puts the music first Miller have all the right ingredients drinks available, for those who are so with the Celtic influence being at the for delivering a youthful zest in their inclined, so be prepared for a full night root. Celebrated Cape Breton fiddler sets with their pipe and fiddle style of music, dancing and good times. Andrea Beaton has been living in of Gaelic dance music. Along with Cape Breton’s Beòlach and Scotland’s Montreal for the last number of years multi-instrumentalist Zakk Cormier, Breabach have much in common and with Quebecois fiddler Véronique Miller | MacDonald | Cormier with similar lineups featuring fiddles, Plasse, she makes the connection transcend the boundaries between pipes, and dancing. While Breabach’s between the roots and branches. Cape Breton, Scottish, and Acadian sound includes beautiful vocals and Scottish band Rura will be wrapping up traditions. Teho will make the rather harmonizing compared to Beòlach’s their first visit to Celtic Colours with old instrument that is the violin strictly instrumental repertoire, Gaelic this concert as The Savoy Family Cajun look and sound youthful with their is at the core of both bands. Ireland’s Band’s trip is just beginning. Cape modern Finnish fiddling styles. And Socks in the Frying Pan fit right in with Breton, Scottish, Quebecois and Cajun while The Campbell Sisters may be dynamic vocal harmonies, virtuosic influences come together in this study the youngest performers on the bill musical ability and an onstage wit that of how we’re all connected through tonight, they have years and years of is sure to overflow to laughs backstage music. playing behind them to help round with everyone. Critically acclaimed and out tonight’s special performance. hosted by popular Cape Breton band Pretty Archie D’Escousse Civic Improvement Society hosted by makes their Celtic Colours debut.

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THANKSGIVING BRUNCH PLAY SPOONS WITH US St. Peter’s Parish Hall, Port Hood La Place des arts Père Anselme Chiasson, Chéticamp 9:00 am - 11:30 am • $10 10:00 am / 1:00 pm • $15 Choice of eggs, sausage, bacon, ham, pancakes, breads, juice, tea, coffee and Choose between 10-11am or 1-2pm. much more. Participants of all ages will learn the contact: Joe Morris • 902-787-3284 history of spoon playing, how the [email protected] spoons are made, and how to play hosted by KOC Port Hood them. (St. Peter’s Council) contact: Joeleen Larade • 902-224-1406 902-371-0189 • [email protected] BLACKSMITHING WORKSHOP hosted by Le Conseil des arts de Chéticamp VOICES OF THE Le Noir Landing, Arichat PARADOXICAL: NAOMHÓG 9:00 am - 12:00 pm ART & CRAFT BY WELDON BONA adult $65; youth $30 Cape Breton Centre for Craft and Rosie MacKenzie Visit one of the oldest stone buildings Design, Sydney Breanndán Ó Beaglaoich on Cape Breton Island to learn about 10:00 am - 2:00 pm • free Mary Jane Lamond the traditional art of blacksmithing and Kathleen MacInnes produce a forge piece to take home. Weldon was an artist, graphic designer, Pre-registration is required. communicator, and master gardener. Troy MacGillivray contact: Susan Marchand-Terrio This exhibition contrasts his whimsical Kenneth MacKenzie 902-226-2880 / 902-226-9364 hooked rugs and abstract ink drawings Conchúbhair Ó Beaglaoich [email protected] that depict surreal landscapes, people, Liam Holden hosted by Isle Madame Historical Society and creatures. 28 contact: Holley Grant • 902-270-7491 BUDDY MACMASTER FIDDLE CAMP [email protected] Alexander Graham Bell National Celtic Music Interpretive Centre, hosted by Cape Breton Centre for Craft Historic Site, Baddeck • 7:30 pm • $30 Judique and Design Inspired by Irish musician Breanndán Ó 9:00 am - 3:00 pm FIBRE FESTIVAL Beaglaoich’s 2017 journey from Ireland $150/day; $500/week Baddeck Volunteer Fire Department to Spain in a traditional Irish rowboat, Community Centre, Baddeck Voices of the Naomhóg will see this This is a hands-on workshop for intermediate and advanced players who group of artists teaming up to build and 10:00 am - 5:00 pm • $2 row their own naomhóg from Baddeck wish to further their skills and learn the Show and sale of a wide variety of to Iona. While the boats are being Cape Breton style of playing. Today’s handcrafts created by local artists built, with the assistance of Mi’kmaq instructors are Shelly Campbell and working in fibre. craftsmen, the artists will create new Dara Smith-MacDonald contact Allan Dewar • 902-787-2708 contact: Dianne Quimby • 902-945-2226 music, Gaelic song, and dance to be : [email protected] [email protected] presented at concerts in Baddeck and hosted by Celtic Music Interpretive Centre hosted by South Haven Weavers’ Guild Iona. Fiddler Rosie MacKenzie, who has and Baddeck Quilt Guild spent the last number of years working INTERACTIVE EXHIBIT on sailboats abroad, has been a frequent ROOM TOUR ELIZABETH VINCENT EXHIBIT: musical collaborator with Breanndán. Celtic Music Interpretive Centre, Judique HOMELANDS The journey begins in Baddeck, where J. Franklin Wright Gallery, Alexander Graham Bell, Mabel Bell 9:00 am - 5:00 pm • $6 Port Hawkesbury and F.W. Casey Baldwin developed and tested Bell’s HD4 hydrofoil, and it broke Take a journey through the history of 10:00 am - 8:00 pm • free the speed record almost 100 years ago. Cape Breton music, try your hand at Elizabeth Vincent has worked and lived The concert will be in the Bell Museum playing the fiddle, learn to step dance, in both England and Canada, presently where a replica of the innovative or learn some Gaelic words and phrases in Nova Scotia. Working in a variety of watercraft is on display, alongside the at your own pace. media, her subjects include landscape, naomhóg itself. contact: Celtic Music Interpretive Centre 902-787-2708 • [email protected] portrait and still life studies. hosted by contact hosted by Celtic Music Interpretive Centre : Paula Davis • 902-625-7891 Alexander Graham Bell Museum Association [email protected] hosted by J. Franklin Wright Gallery CONCERTS & CULTURAL EXPERIENCES CULTURAL EXPERIENCES

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CBC MAINSTREET LIVE FIDDLE FROM SCRATCH CELTIC GUITAR CHORDING Knox Presbyterian Church, Baddeck Brooks Haven Seniors’ Recreation Brooks Haven Seniors’ Recreation Centre, Prime Brook Centre, Prime Brook 10:30 am - 12:30 pm • free 11:30 am - 12:30 pm • $35 12:45 pm - 1:45 pm • $35 Join us for a live-to-tape broadcast of CBC Radio One program Mainstreet, Have you always wanted to try the fiddle? Dwayne Côté helps you learn how to where host Wendy Bergfeldt interviews Dwayne Côté will have fiddles on site and accompany other Celtic musicians on Festival artists and welcomes can lead you through the basics. the guitar. performances. contact: Lisa Côté • 902-371-8948 contact: Lisa Côté • 902-371-8948 contact: Wendy Bergfeldt • 902-563-4151 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] hosted by Brooks Haven Seniors’ hosted by Brooks Haven Seniors’ hosted by CBC Cape Breton Recreation Centre Recreation Centre

GUIDING LIGHTS OF ACADIAN KITCHEN PARTY THE BELL SERIES

ISLE MADAME Happy Clam Café, Chéticamp Alexander Graham Bell National Lennox Passage Provincial Park, Historic Site, Baddeck 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm • menu pricing Martinique 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm • free with park pass The local tourism cooperative works 10:30 am - 12:30 pm • $20 with the village’s restaurants to offer An interactive, performance-based This guided driving and walking Acadian music and cuisine for an presentation from featured Festival tour shines a light on the history enjoyable lunch offering. artists as they share conversations and geography of Isle Madame. Visit contact: Jérémie Poirier • 902-224-2642 about their life and work. lighthouses past and present and hear [email protected] contact: Madeline Harvey stories and interviews about light hosted by La Société Saint-Pierre 902-295-2069 • [email protected] keepers and their lives. hosted by Parks Canada’s Alexander contact: Marg Herdman • 902-227-8303 DOORS OPEN FOR CHURCHES Graham Bell National Historic Site [email protected] Please check website for 29 hosted by Isle Madame Lighthouse participating churches Preservation Society / Société de preservation 12:00 pm - 4:00 pm • free / donation des phares de l’Ile Madame The public is invited to explore some MI’KMAQ NATURE of Cape Breton’s built heritage. Select

INTERPRETIVE TOUR churches in Inverness and Richmond Goat Island Trail, Eskasoni counties are open for tours. contact: Marg Herdman • 902-227-8303 11:00 am - 1:00 pm • $15 [email protected] On this self-guided tour along a scenic hosted by Heritage Trust of Nova Scotia trail you will meet a variety of heritage interpreters who share their knowledge FIBRE FESTIVAL WORKSHOP: of Mi’kmaq traditional skills and arts. CELTIC KNOT QUILTING WITH contact: Sandra MacDonald NORMA MARCHANT 902-322-2279 Baddeck Volunteer Fire Department [email protected] Community Centre, Baddeck hosted by Eskasoni Cultural Journeys 12:30 pm - 4:30 pm Watch a different $50 includes materials LUNCH CEILIDH concert each night Celtic Music Interpretive Learn the heritage craft of quilting, Centre, Judique making a small keepsake piece with a of the Festival. Celtic knot design. 11:00 am - 2:45 pm • $6; menu pricing contact: Dianne Quimby • 902-945-2226 [email protected] Tune in at Enjoy lunch in a fun atmosphere hosted by South Haven Weavers’ Guild celtic-colours.com featuring local food and drinks and and Baddeck Quilt Guild live music with Shelly Campbell, Dara Smith-MacDonald and friends. contact: Celtic Music Interpretive Centre Brought to 902-787-2708 • [email protected] you by: hosted by Celtic Music Interpretive Centre CULTURAL EXPERIENCES

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WEAVING DEMONSTRATION Scotsville School of Crafts, THE Scotsville

1:00 pm - 3:00 pm • donation GRAND SATURDAY Come and try your hand at one of the OCTOBER 13 oldest surviving crafts in the world. FINALE Knowledgable hand-weavers lead you through this demonstration. Kate Rusby contact: Verna MacMillan • 902-258-2278 Mary Jane Lamond [email protected] hosted by Lake Ainslie Weavers & Craft Guild & Wendy MacIsaac LAKESIDE IMPRESSIONS Phil Cunningham ART & CRAFT EXHIBIT Change of Step Scotsville School of Crafts, Scotsville 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm • donation

CENTRE 200, SYDNEY A unique showcase of visual art and 7:30 PM • $60/50/40/25 crafts from local area artists and artisans for your viewing pleasure. contact: Verna MacMillan • 902-258-2278 [email protected] hosted by Lake Ainslie Weavers & Craft Guild

LUNCH AND STORYTELLING 30 WITH THE ELDERS Membertou Heritage Park, Membertou

1:00 pm - 4:00 pm $30 includes materials Enjoy a traditional lunch with our community’s elders. Listen to the Mi’kmaq legends and stories that have been passed on through generations. Maximum 40 participants, please register in advance to book your spot. contact: Jeff Ward • 902-567-5333 [email protected] hosted by Membertou Heritage Park Aboriginal Culture Centre

CEILIDH-STYLE SCOTTISH COUNTRY DANCING WORKSHOP St. Peter’s United Church Hall, St. Peter’s

1:30 pm • $10 Learn the steps, movements and patterns of ceilidh-style Scottish Country Dancing in this fun participatory workshop. contact: Dianne Landry • 902-535-2334 [email protected]

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GUIDED HIKE IN THE contact: Susan Marchand-Terrio SEAFOOD CHOICES DINNER NATIONAL PARK: SALMON POOLS 902-226-2880 / 902-226-9364 Celtic Music Interpretive Robert’s Brook Campground, [email protected] Centre, Judique Chéticamp hosted by Isle Madame Historical Society 4:30 pm - 7:00 pm • $16 / menu prices 2:00 pm • free with park pass OPEN MIC JAM SESSION Enjoy a delicious local meal with live This level trail follows the bottom Bras d’Or Yacht Club, Baddeck music. Panfried haddock dinner with of the Chéticamp River canyon with mashed potatoes, vegetables, dessert, 2:00 pm - 6:00 pm • donation cliffs almost 400 metres (1300 ft.) high and tea or coffee for $16. Seafood towering above. The First Pool is about Bring your instrument and join us for chowder, lobster sandwich, or other 3.6 km up the Chéticamp River. our daily Open Mic Jam, hosted by non-seafood items available at menu contact: 902-224-2306 Englishtown’s own Michael Cavanaugh. prices. No reservations. [email protected] contact: Lavonne Grant • 902-295-2107 contact: Celtic Music Interpretive Centre hosted by Cape Breton Highlands [email protected] 902-787-2708 • [email protected] National Park hosted by Bras d’Or Yacht Club hosted by Celtic Music Interpretive Centre

BAILE NAN GÀIDHEAL BREWS AND CHEWS THANKSGIVING BY THE MILLING FROLIC Brooks Haven Seniors’ BRAS D’OR Baile nan Gàidheal / Highland Village, Recreation Centre, Prime Brook Fisheries Building, Eskasoni Iona 2:00 pm - 6:30 pm • $15 with tea/ 5:00 pm • $20 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm coffee; $20 with alcoholic beverage Overlooking the Bras d’Or Lake, share museum charges apply Choose your meal from popular a traditional roast turkey dinner with Join us for a traditional milling frolic in local food trucks with locally sourced all the trimmings including dessert and a period setting at the Highland Village. ingredients, grab a beverage from the endless tea. Refreshments served. local craft brewery, set up in the dining contact: George Paul • 902-577-0073 contact: Baile nan Gàidheal / Highland area on site. hosted by Eskasoni High School 31 Village • 902-725-2272 contact: Lisa Côté • 902-371-8948 Travel Group hosted by Baile nan Gàidheal / [email protected] Highland Village hosted by Brooks Haven Seniors’ BROOK VILLAGE ADULT Recreation Centre SQUARE DANCE JOHN ALLAN CAMERON Brook Village Hall, Brook Village SONG SESSION BEHIND THE MUSIC WITH 9:30 pm - 1:00 am • $8 Glencoe Station Hall, Glencoe Station STAN CHAPMAN Celtic Music Interpretive Centre, Judique Jump in to a traditional Inverness 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm • $12 County square set with live local music. 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm • donation Gather in Glencoe Station, the This dance is for ages 19 and over, bar birthplace of John Allan Cameron, and Stan taught some of Cape Breton’s service available. sing along to your favourite songs. best-known fiddlers, and will discuss contact: Jeff Lee • 902-945-2800 / contact: Lisa Organ • 902-787-2744 the repertoire of Cape Breton tunes, 902-258-5233 • [email protected] [email protected] where they came from and how hosted by Brook Village Social Committee hosted by Glencoe Station Recreation they’re chosen. Association contact: Celtic Music Interpretive Centre KITCHEN RACKETS JAM SESSIONS 902-787-2708 • [email protected] Bras d’Or Lakes Inn, St. Peter’s STORIES AND SONGS FROM hosted by Celtic Music Interpretive Centre THE HEARTH 10:30 pm - 1:00 am • $5; free for players; freewill donation with concert Le Noir Landing, Arichat TURKEY DINNER IN ARICHAT ticket stub from today OLA Parish Hall, Arichat 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm • $8 Open jam session following a welcome 4:00 pm or 5:15 pm • $18 Visit one of the oldest stone performance by your local artist hosts. buildings on Cape Breton Island and Enjoy a thanksgiving dinner of roast Visiting players are invited to sit in with learn about the traditional art of turkey with all the trimmings, dessert, Cape Breton locals. Listeners welcome. blacksmithing. Enjoy a demonstration and tea or coffee. Choose between two These late-night jams take place after as well as stories, folklore, and songs. sittings at 4pm or 5:15pm. the local concerts. Refreshments will be served. contact: Barbara MacNeil contact: Rob Woodley • 902-345-2996 902-226-1020 • [email protected] [email protected] hosted by Friends of Notre Dame de hosted by Kitchen Rackets Organization l’Assomption CONCERTS

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THE WATERFORD CLOSE TO THE A CHÉTICAMP CONNECTION FLOOR: ALEX AND SOIRÉE David Power & Triona Marshall MINNIE’S LEGACY The Savoy Family Cajun Band Doug MacPhee Kinnon & Betty Lou Beaton Cy Dan MacDonald MacMaster Grandchildren Les Zorvenants & Shawn MacDonald Mary Janet MacDonald Teho Blanche Sophocleous Harvey Beaton • Breabach La Place des arts Père Anselme Calvin United Church, Strathspey Performing Arts Centre, Chiasson, Chéticamp 7:30 pm • $30/25 New Waterford • 2:00 pm • $30 Mabou • 7:30 pm • $35/30

32 Music has always been an important Celtic Colours has a history of paying Local Acadian trio Les Zorvenants part of life in New Waterford, a former tribute to those that have had a welcomes folks from Louisiana, coal-mining town on the Atlantic profound effect on the culture of Cape Finland, and southwestern Nova Scotia coast. Many of the town’s original Breton. Tonight we’ll honour a couple for this evening of music-making settlers came from the Irish seaport of whose influence has extended far and merriment in Chéticamp. Les Waterford, and found work in the area’s beyond the Island’s shores through Zorvenants have deep roots in this area coalmines. With strong ties to their their sharing of the culture. Alex and have been coming together as a Scottish and Irish roots intact, folks in grew up listening to and playing the group for almost 15 years to share their this community love music and never fiddle and Minnie was in demand as Acadian community’s traditional songs miss an opportunity to gather for tunes, a neat and tidy dancer. Minnie was a and the stories behind them. The whether it means spending all night dedicated dance teacher who taught Savoy Family Cajun Band also has deep at a house party or the afternoon in a Mary Janet and Harvey their steps. Acadian roots, albeit in the sense that church. This afternoon’s concert sees Both would later travel to Scotland Cajun music is rooted in the ballads County Waterford native, uilleann piper and California to teach those very of the French-speaking Acadians David Power joining forces with Triona same steps. Betty Lou just happens who resettled in the southern United Marshall who has been playing harp to be Alex’s sister and she, along with States after expulsion from L’Acadie with The Chieftains for almost 20 years. husband Kinnon, will be on hand to in the mid-1700s. Known as Le Grand From New Waterford comes venerated provide some of the best dance music Dérangement (Great Expulsion), Cape Breton piano player Doug around. We’ll also get to meet some of many Acadians were forcibly removed MacPhee, whose musical connections the MacMaster grandchildren as they from mainland Nova Scotia, home of run back several generations through perform for Grandpa and Grandma the young, progressive-folk group his mother Margaret, who accompanied tonight. And while Breabach have not Cy. The fiddles of Teho, and their all of the great players of the Island’s met her directly, there’s no doubt that high-spirited, traditionally-rooted, Scottish fiddle tradition. Fiddlers Dan some of the steps they’ve learned in boundary-breaking music will bring and Shawn MacDonald, from Ironville, Scotland over the last 25 years were in this evening party together nicely. round out the afternoon of tunes while part thanks to Minnie’s teachings. hosted by well-known Big Pond singer Blanche Le Conseil des arts de Chéticamp hosted by Sophocleous lends her voice in song. Chestico Museum & Historical Society hosted by Nearby Meal: Acadian Culinary Nearby Meal: Port Hood Roast Beef Calvin United Church Experience & Dine with Les Dinner Page 36 Mi-Carêmes Page 37 CONCERTS CONCERTS

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A TOUCH IN CELEBRATION COW BAY CEILIDH OF THE IRISH OF SONG J.P. Cormier & Ray Legere Socks in the Frying Pan Ye Vagabonds Brighde Chaimbeul Edwina Guickian Margaret Bennett & Ross Ainslie Mairi Rankin & Eric Wright & Norman Kennedy The Young’uns Delores Boudreau Roger Stone Port Morien Legion / Community Nicole LeBlanc Centre, Port Morien • 7:30 pm • $30 Riverdale Community Centre, Lower River Inhabitants • 7:30 pm • $30 Our Lady of Fatima Church, Typically an early sell-out, the Cow Sydney River • 7:30 pm • $30/25 Bay Ceilidh has established itself as There’s certainly a touch of the Irish presenting a most entertaining mix in this concert, but we’ve thrown 33 The celebration will be multi- of songs and tunes in the beautiful in some Cape Breton, Scottish and lingual tonight with singers from setting of Port Morien, a small Acadian flavours too, just for good Ireland, Scotland, US, and Cape seaside community where the only measure. Multi-award winning trio Breton. Ye Vagabonds are all about thing more magical than the view of Socks in the Frying Pan—from County celebrating song—in the singing, the bay, is the community’s giving Clare on Ireland’s west coast—blends writing, choosing and performing. spirit, hospitality, and willingness traditional melodies with their own Their repertoire of original and folk to help out. Tonight’s Ceilidh is personal flair on guitar, vocals, songs has made its way from the our first chance to see the exciting accordion, fiddle, and banjo, while traditional and folk scenes around combination of Brighde Chaimbeul Edwina Guickian’s Sean Nós dancing is Dublin to stages around the world, and Ross Ainslie, two of Scottish greatly influenced by the music of her aided in no small way by its passionate traditional music’s brightest stars, home in County Leitrim. This is our presentation. Passion always has a on pipes and whistles. J.P. Cormier first chance to see West Coast-based place in celebration, and in song. You’d and Ray Legere are more familiar Cape Breton fiddler and dancer Mairi have to search far and wide to find two faces and whether ripping through Rankin, of international Trad sensation more passionately dedicated to song Celtic tunes or Bluegrass and Old- The Outside Track, teamed up with than Margaret Bennett and Norman timey Country classics, their Cape cello-playing producer and arranger Kennedy. Margaret’s lifelong study of Breton and New Brunswick Acadian Eric Wright, of the JUNO Award- Gaelic and Scottish culture is strongly roots inform an impressive mastery winning western Canadian group The connected to song and Norman is of stringed instruments. And the Fretless. And Delores Boudreau, from devoted to the traditions of ballad- Young’uns will share traditional the nearby community of Arichat, singing and storytelling. Roger Stone and original songs, a capella and brings boundless energy and charisma can certainly relate to that tradition in perfect-pitch harmony, from to the stage. Her lively and upbeat, folk as can Chéticamp singer-songwriter their native northeast England and and bluegrass-inspired sound shines Nicole LeBlanc who will complete this beyond. We can only imagine what a through whether singing in English or celebration of songs in Sydney River. finale these three groups will dream French. hosted by up together! hosted by Our Lady of Fatima CWL Riverdale Community Services Society hosted by Port Morien Development Association Nearby Meal: Traditional Irish Stew Nearby Meal: Jiggs’ Dinner Supper Page 36 Page 36 CULTURAL EXPERIENCES

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BLACKSMITHING WORKSHOP contact: Joeleen Larade • 902-224-1406 in Nova Scotia. Working in a variety of Le Noir Landing, Arichat 902-371-0189 • [email protected] media, her subjects include landscape, hosted by Le Conseil des arts de Chéticamp portrait and still life studies. 9:00 am - 12:00 pm contact: Paula Davis • 902-625-7891 adult $65; youth $30 KAIROS BLANKET [email protected] Visit one of the oldest stone buildings EXERCISE hosted by J. Franklin Wright Gallery on Cape Breton Island and learn about Potlotek First Nation the traditional art of blacksmithing, Community Hall, Potlotek DANCE DIALECTS and produce a forge piece to take home. West Mabou Hall, West Mabou 10:00 am - 1:00 pm • free Pre-registration is required. 10:30 am - 12:00 pm • $10 contact: Susan Marchand-Terrio This a special interactive learning 902-226-2880 / 902-226-9364 experience that teaches Indigenous A unique and informative exploration [email protected] rights history, guided by facilitators. of different percussive dance hosted by Isle Madame Historical Society The exercise finishes with a debriefing dialects—Sean Nós, Ottawa Valley session, followed by a meal. and Cape Breton—with discussion BUDDY MACMASTER FIDDLE CAMP contact: Noelle Doucette and performances by featured Celtic Music Interpretive Centre, 902-535-3160 • [email protected] dancers, allowing for some audience Judique hosted by Potlotek Education participation. contact: Derrick & Melody Cameron 9:00 am - 3:00 pm PARADOXICAL: [email protected] $150/day or $500/week ART & CRAFT BY WELDON BONA hosted by West Mabou Hall This is a hands-on workshop for Cape Breton Centre for Craft and intermediate and advanced players Design, Sydney CBC MAINSTREET LIVE who wish to further their skills and Knox Presbyterian Church, Baddeck 10:00 am - 4:00 pm • free learn the Cape Breton style of playing. 10:30 am - 12:30 pm • free Today’s instructors are Mairi Rankin Weldon was an artist, graphic designer, 34 and Gabrielle MacLellan. communicator, and master gardener. Join us for a live-to-tape broadcast of contact: Allan Dewar • 902-787-2708 This exhibition contrasts his whimsical CBC Radio One program Mainstreet, [email protected] hooked rugs and abstract ink drawings where host Wendy Bergfeldt interviews hosted by Celtic Music Interpretive Centre that depict surreal landscapes, people, Festival artists and welcomes and creatures. performances. INTERACTIVE EXHIBIT contact: Holley Grant • 902-270-7491 contact: Wendy Bergfeldt ROOM TOUR [email protected] 902-563-4151 • [email protected] Celtic Music Interpretive Centre, hosted by Cape Breton Centre for Craft hosted by CBC Cape Breton Judique and Design GUIDING LIGHTS OF 9:00 am - 5:00 pm • $6 FIBRE FESTIVAL ISLE MADAME Take a journey through the history of Baddeck Volunteer Fire Department Lennox Passage Provincial Park, Cape Breton music, try your hand at Community Centre, Baddeck Martinique playing the fiddle, learn to step dance, 10:00 am - 5:00 pm • $2 10:30 am - 12:30 pm • $20 or learn some Gaelic words and phrases at your own pace. Show and sale of a wide variety of A guided driving and walking tour contact: Celtic Music Interpretive Centre handcrafts created by local artists that shines a light on the history 902-787-2708 • [email protected] working in fibre. and geography of Isle Madame. Visit hosted by Celtic Music Interpretive Centre contact: Dianne Quimby • 902-945-2226 lighthouses past and present and hear [email protected] stories and interviews about light PLAY SPOONS WITH US hosted by South Haven Weavers’ Guild keepers and their lives. La Place des arts Père Anselme and Baddeck Quilt Guild contact: Marg Herdman • 902-227-8303 Chiasson, Chéticamp [email protected] ELIZABETH VINCENT EXHIBIT: hosted by Isle Madame Lighthouse 10:00 am / 1:00 pm • $15 HOMELANDS Preservation Society / Société de preservation Choose between 10-11am or 1-2pm. J. Franklin Wright Gallery, des phares de l’Ile Madame Participants of all ages will learn the Port Hawkesbury history of spoon playing, how the 10:00 am - 8:00 pm • free spoons are made, and how to play them. Elizabeth Vincent has worked and lived in both England and Canada, presently CULTURAL EXPERIENCES CULTURAL EXPERIENCES

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SOUP AND SANDWICH LUNCHEON The local tourism cooperative works presentation from featured Festival St. Stephen’s Jubilee United Church, with the village’s restaurants to offer artists as they share conversations Port Hood Acadian music and cuisine for an about their life and work. enjoyable lunch offering. contact: Madeline Harvey 11:00 am - 1:00 pm • $10 contact: Jérémie Poirier • 902-224-2642 902-295-2069 • [email protected] A lovely soup and sandwich luncheon [email protected] hosted by Parks Canada’s Alexander with tea or coffee in scenic Port Hood. hosted by La Société Saint-Pierre Graham Bell National Historic Site contact: Susan Campbell • 902-787-2842 [email protected] DOORS OPEN FOR CHURCHES FIDDLE FROM SCRATCH hosted by St. Stephen’s-Jubilee United Please check website for Brooks Haven Seniors’ Recreation Church Hall participating churches Centre, Prime Brook

12:00 pm - 4:00 pm • free / donation 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm • $35 LUNCH CEILIDH Celtic Music Interpretive The public is invited to explore some Have you always wanted to try the Centre, Judique of Cape Breton’s built heritage. Select fiddle? Dwayne Côté will have fiddles on churches in Victoria County and CBRM site to lead you through the basics. 11:00 am - 2:45 pm • $6; menu pricing are open for tours. contact: Lisa Côté • 902-371-8948 Enjoy lunch in a fun atmosphere contact: Marg Herdman • 902-227-8303 [email protected] featuring local food and drinks and live [email protected] hosted by Brooks Haven Seniors’ Cape Breton music with Mairi Rankin, hosted by Heritage Trust of Nova Scotia Recreation Centre Gabrielle MacLellan and friends. contact: Celtic Music Interpretive Centre CELTIC CONVERSATIONS SERIES CALLIGRAPHY WORKSHOP 902-787-2708 • [email protected] McConnell Library, Sydney Scotsville School of Crafts, hosted by Celtic Music Interpretive Centre Scotsville 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm • free 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm • $25 UNDERGROUND TOUR OF Music and conversation from featured A COAL MINE Festival artists provide insight into Local artist Barry Fraser leads this 35 Cape Breton Miners’ Museum, their life and work. Brought to you by unique workshop working with quill Glace Bay Eastlink. pens and learning calligraphy styles. contact: Tara • 902-562-3279 contact: Verna MacMillan • 902-258-2278 11:00 am - 4:00 pm adult $16; youth $13 [email protected] [email protected] Call to book your 90 minute tour. You hosted by Cape Breton Regional Library hosted by Lake Ainslie Weavers & Craft Guild will be guided by a former coal miner into the mine where you’ll hear stories FIBRE FESTIVAL WORKSHOP: WEAVING DEMONSTRATION of his life. KNITTING LACE WITH JENNI Scotsville School of Crafts, contact: Mary Pat Mombourquette BEATON Scotsville 902-849-4522 • [email protected] Baddeck Volunteer Fire Department 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm • donation hosted by Cape Breton Miners’ Museum Community Centre, Baddeck Come and try your hand at one of the 12:30 pm - 4:30 pm TRANSITIONS oldest surviving crafts in the world. $50 includes materials Inverness County Centre for Knowledgable hand-weavers lead you the Arts, Inverness Knitting experience is necessary, must through this demonstration. be able to cast on, knit and purl. You contact: Verna MacMillan • 902-258-2278 11:00 am - 5:00 pm • free will be shown how to make a small [email protected] A contemporary textile exhibition by lace sampler, how to read charts, graft hosted by Lake Ainslie Weavers & Craft Guild the members of the Studio Art Quilt borders and more. Associates of the Atlantic Region. contact: Dianne Quimby • 902-945-2226 LAKESIDE IMPRESSIONS ART contact: Elizabeth Whalley • 902-258-2533 [email protected] & CRAFT EXHIBIT [email protected] hosted by South Haven Weavers’ Guild Scotsville School of Crafts, Scotsville hosted by Inverness County Centre for the Arts and Baddeck Quilt Guild 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm • donation

ACADIAN KITCHEN PARTY THE BELL SERIES A unique showcase of visual art and Harbour Restaurant and Bar, Alexander Graham Bell National crafts from local area artists and Chéticamp Historic Site, Baddeck artisans for your viewing pleasure. contact: Verna MacMillan • 902-258-2278 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm • free with park pass 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm • menu pricing [email protected] An interactive, performance based hosted by Lake Ainslie Weavers & Craft Guild

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HANDS-ON SPINNING GUIDED HIKE IN THE DANCE CEILIDH DEMONSTRATION NATIONAL PARK: CORNEY BROOK Celtic Music Interpretive Scotsville School of Crafts, Scotsville Corney Brook Trail, Chéticamp Centre, Judique

1:00 pm - 3:00 pm • donation 2:00 pm • free with park pass 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm • $7 Spinning is yet another ancient craft Join Cape Breton Highlands National Enjoy an authentic and hands-on Cape still common in Cape Breton. Watch a Park staff for a hike at Corney Brook Breton experience of live music and spinner at work and if you’d like to try Trail Waterfall. The hike takes you square dancing with instruction to lead your hand(s) at it you are very welcome! through an Acadian hardwood forest in you through the sets! contact: Verna MacMillan • 902-258-2278 a river canyon, 2 hours, 6.5 km, 30-170 contact: Celtic Music Interpretive Centre [email protected] meter elevation. 902-787-2708 • [email protected] hosted by Lake Ainslie Weavers & Craft Guild contact: 902-224-2306 hosted by Celtic Music Interpretive Centre [email protected] ELDERS’ LUNCH AND hosted by Cape Breton Highlands TRADITIONAL IRISH DRUM-MAKING WORKSHOP National Park STEW SUPPER Membertou Heritage Park, Membertou Rocky Bay Irish Club, Rocky Bay TRADITIONAL CÉILIDH 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm • $200 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm • $15 Baile nan Gàidheal / Instructor and performer, Jeff Ward, Highland Village, Iona A traditional Irish stew supper includes will gift you with the teachings behind coffee or tea and dessert. 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm • museum charges apply Indigenous drum-making while you contact: Catherine Mae Kehoe assemble your own hand drum. Enjoy a Join us for a traditional céilidh as we 902-631-1555 • [email protected] traditional lunch with our community’s share stories, songs and music in a hosted by Rocky Bay Irish Club elders. period setting at the Highland Village. contact: Jeff Ward • 902-567-5333 Refreshments served. JIGGS’ DINNER [email protected] contact: Baile nan Gàidheal / Highland Brooks Haven Seniors’ 36 hosted by Membertou Heritage Park Village • 902-725-2272 Recreation Centre, Prime Brook Aboriginal Culture Centre hosted by Baile nan Gàidheal / Highland 4:00 pm - 6:30 pm • $20 Village SOUNDS AND SUPPER This is a popular dish in Atlantic BY THE SEA OPEN MIC JAM SESSION Canada, home-cooked and locally- Lobsters R Us, L’Ardoise Bras d’Or Yacht Club, Baddeck sourced corned beef, cabbage and mixed root vegetables, dessert, and tea or 1:00 pm - 4:30 pm • $35 2:00 pm - 6:00 pm • donation coffee. Ceilidh starts at 1pm, meal is served at Bring your instrument and join us for contact: Lisa Côté 902-371-8948 3pm. Enjoy a 1.5 lb lobster, a variety of our daily Open Mic Jam, hosted by [email protected] salads, dessert, and coffee or tea. Ham Englishtown’s own Michael Cavanaugh. or Laurie MacCuish 902-564-8073 dinner is available for those who prefer. contact: Lavonne Grant • 902-295-2107 [email protected] contact: Vernon Burke • 902-587-2675 [email protected] hosted by Brooks Haven Seniors’ 902-227-5605 • [email protected] hosted by Bras d’Or Yacht Club Recreation Centre hosted by L’Ardoise Men’s Club CBU STUDENT JAM SESSION PORT HOOD ROAST BOAT TOUR, TALES AND Cape Breton University Rotary BEEF DINNER TEA ON PORT HOOD ISLAND Music Performance Centre, Sydney St. Peter’s Parish Hall , Port Hood Murphy’s Pond, Port Hood 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm • free 4:30 pm - 6:30 pm • adult $16; 2:00 pm • $50 youth 12 & under $8 CBU’s traditional music students This guided tour will take you by boat and their instructor, Stan Chapman, Enjoy a hot roast beef dinner with all to visit scenic Port Hood Island. When welcome players and listeners alike for the trimmings, vegetables, dessert and you arrive you’ll be lead to the Jubilee a traditional tune session. tea or coffee. church for stories and tea. Please contact: Heather Sparling • 902-563-1242 contact: Joe Morris • 902-787-3284 register in advance. [email protected] [email protected] contact: Susan Mallette • 902-787-2930 hosted by Cape Breton University hosted by KOC Port Hood (St. Peter’s Council) hosted by Chestico Museum & Historical Society CULTURAL EXPERIENCES CULTURAL EXPERIENCES & CONCERTS

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DINE WITH LES MI-CARÊMES Centre de la Mi-Carême, Grand Étang Harbour

4:30 pm - 7:00 pm • $35 Enjoy local tastes of the land with a soupe verte (vegetable soup), followed by fish cakes with salad from gardens in Margaree, and blueberry pie with berries from the Highlands. contact: 902-224-1016 [email protected] hosted by Société Mi-Carême TWOSOMES FOR ÒRAIN: THE ACADIAN CULINARY EXPERIENCE SOME TUNES CONNECTING La Place des arts Père Anselme Margaret Bennett THREAD Chiasson, Chéticamp & Norman Kennedy Allan MacDonald 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm • $40 Dan MacDonald Mary Jane Lamond Enjoy a three-course traditional Acadian & Paul MacDonald Mairi Rankin & Eric Wright meal of fricot (soup) with fresh bread, Maxim Cormier Joanne MacIntyre & sons meat pie with locally-grown salad Colin Watson • Còisir an Eilein and blueberry cake made with wild & Gervais Cormier blueberries. Michael & Tracy Cavanaugh Ùr: The Future of our Past contact: Joeleen Larade • 902-224-1406 902-371-0189 • [email protected] North River Community Hall, Strathspey Performing Arts Centre, 37 hosted by Le Conseil des arts de Chéticamp North River • 2:00 pm • $30 Mabou • 7:30 pm • $35/30

DORYMAN SESSIONS These two-somes will be coming from Join Scottish piper-Gaelic singer Allan Doryman Pub & Grill, Chéticamp all directions to get together for some MacDonald and generations of Cape tunes in North River. We’ll see how Breton Gaelic singers for a special concert 9:00 pm - 12:00 am • $5; free for music runs in the family and through in Mabou, a beating heart of Gaelic players; free for a chéticamp soirée communities, up-close and personal in culture in Inverness County. Exploring concert ticket holders this intimate community hall. Gaelic the connections to Gaidhealtachd na singer and scholar Margaret Bennett h-Alba—the Scottish Highlands—as You are invited to join in the fun by is here from Scotland to meet up represented in the song tradition of Cape bringing your musical instruments! with Aberdeen-born singer Norman Breton Island, this evening’s songs are contact: Jérémie Poirier • 902-224-2642 Kennedy. This is just the place for their as well-chosen as the location, and those [email protected] deep repertoire of traditional Scottish who will be singing them. Local Gaelic hosted by La Société Saint-Pierre song. Brothers Dan and Paul MacDonald song tradition shares much with that of grew up with the music an hour away the Old Country; some songs live on in KITCHEN RACKETS JAM SESSIONS in Ironville. They’ve been playing fiddle different settings, and some are still sung Bras d’Or Lakes Inn, St. Peter’s and guitar since they were kids, with the only way anybody has ever known. 10:30 pm - 1:00 am • $5; free for family bands and other folks along The songs will tell us of the inspiration players; freewill donation with concert the way. Maxim Cormier also picked and the adaptation and the influence ticket stub from today up the music at home in Chéticamp of place, and how it is connected. With from his father Gervais. The guitar duo fiddle and cello duo Mairi Rankin and Open jam session following a welcome plays a range of tunes from classical to Eric Wright, and students from the Royal performance by your local artist hosts. Celtic. Father-son two-some Michael Conservatoire of Scotland in Ùr: The Visiting players are invited to sit in with and Tracy Cavanaugh, from nearby Future of our Past, this will be a night to Cape Breton local players. Listeners Englishtown, round out the afternoon. remember. welcome. These late-night jams take hosted by place after the local concerts. hosted by Dalbrae Academy Student Council contact: Rob Woodley • 902-345-2996 North River Community Hall [email protected] Nearby Meal: PageSpaghetti 48 Dinner hosted by Kitchen Rackets Organization Nearby Meal: Annual Salmon Page 41 Dinner Page 43 CONCERTS

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WAY UP THE CAPE TRUE TO DOWN NORTH BRETON FIDDLERS THEIR ROOTS Socks in the Frying Pan Cape Breton The Savoy Family Cajun Band Edwina Guickian Fiddlers’ Association Andrea Beaton Melody & Derrick Cameron Brian MacDonald & Véronique Plasse & Hilda Chiasson Maybelle Chisholm McQueen Cy The Young’uns St. Mary of the Angels Community Louisbourg Playhouse, Louisbourg North Highlands Elementary, Hall, Glendale • 7:30 pm • $30 7:30 pm • $40/35/30 Aspy Bay • 7:30 pm • $30 In the early 1970s, a television Of all the venues around the Island 38 This is one of those concerts that documentary was broadcast on CBC that host Celtic Colours concerts, kind of has it all, or at least a very that delivered an alarming message. Louisbourg Playhouse comes closest good dose of what you’d expect from The Vanishing Cape Breton Fiddler to feeling like a cozy kitchen party, Celtic Colours. In order to get to the suggested that the Cape Breton fiddle with its good-time house party vibe, show, you will have to endure the tradition was in such a state of decline right down to the tea and homemade breathtaking and spectacular scenery that it could soon disappear altogether. oatcakes served during intermission. of the world-famous Cabot Trail. There This shocked a certain population of It’s a very homey setting for musicians is no other way to get to Aspy Bay on Cape Bretoners into action and a group who are so true to their roots, and the northern tip of the Island. So make of citizens dedicated themselves to down-to-earth themselves. But once the most of this opportunity and take making sure this would never happen. you hear the music they make, each your time, stop to take some pictures, Regular meetings led to the idea of and every one of these groups will and just soak in the beauty. There are presenting some kind of fiddle festival. have you shaking your head in wonder. Community Meals in the area, or on And in 1973, the first Festival of Cape And although their roots are fairly the way, featuring crab, lobster and Breton Fiddling attracted thousands scattered—from Quebec to Nova Scotia assorted delicious seafood, so you of people to Glendale for a concert to Louisiana—they share in common don’t have to worry about supper. featuring more than 130 players. an interest in preserving the heritage And then there’s the concert itself, Preparation for this concert led to of their music and ensuring its place featuring two of the most dynamic and the formation of the Cape Breton among the folk musics of the world. energetic young bands in Trad music Fiddlers’ Association. They have been With the hard-core Cajun sounds of today, some of the finest traditional at the forefront of a resurgence in the Savoy Family Cajun Band, the Cape Breton tunes on fiddle, piano, Cape Breton fiddling that has seen the Cape Breton-Quebecois mix of Andrea and guitar, and dancers representing tradition and style flourish at home and Véronique, and Cy’s traditional- the Cape Breton and Irish Sean Nós and around the world. For the first progressive-folk, influenced by the styles. There’s a little something for time in the Festival’s history, the Cape Acadian coast of southwestern Nova everyone Way Up Down North. Breton Fiddlers return to where it all Scotia, you’re in for one heck of a house party tonight. hosted by began. North Highlands Elementary Home and hosted by hosted by School Glendale and Area Community Cooperative Louisbourg Playhouse Society Nearby Meals: Top of the Island Seafood Dinner & Lobster and Crab Nearby Meal: West Bay Road Fish Nearby Meal: Louisbourg Roast Beef Supper Page 43 Chowder Supper Page 43 Dinner Page 43 CONCERTS CONCERTS

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TRADITIONAL BREAKFAST South West Margaree (St. Joseph’s Parish) Hall, South West Margaree

8:30 am - 11:00 am • $15 Enjoy a home-style breakfast of white pudding, back bacon, eggs, home fries, rolls, biscuits and fruit with coffee or tea. contact: Lawrence MacLellan 902-248-2180 [email protected] hosted by St. Joseph’s Parish Hall Committee

CONCERT BY RISING TO BLACKSMITHING WORKSHOP THE CANAL THE RAFTERS Le Noir Landing, Arichat 9:00 am - 12:00 pm J.P. Cormier & Ray Legere The Men of the Deeps adult $65; youth $30 Brighde Chaimbeul Dwayne Côté & Roger Stone Visit one of the oldest stone buildings & Ross Ainslie David Power on Cape Breton Island, learn about the Ye Vagabonds & Triona Marshall traditional art of blacksmithing, and produce a forge piece to take home. St. Peter’s Lions Hall, St. Peter’s St. Joseph Parish, North Sydney Pre-registration is required. contact Susan Marchand-Terrio 7:30 pm • $30/25 7:30 pm • $30/25 : 902-226-2880 / 902-226-9364 St. Peter’s has a long and influential Sweet sounds will be rising to the [email protected] history—from a 16th century Portuguese rafters of this beautiful new Celtic hosted by Isle Madame Historical Society 39 fishing and trading post, to the fortified Colours venue tonight. And really, is French settlement established in there any more appropriate place than BUDDY MACMASTER FIDDLE CAMP the 1600s, to the eventual founding a beautiful church for the sublime Celtic Music Interpretive Centre, of the Village of St. Peter’s—as a sounds of harp and uillean pipes, Judique

British colony—in the early 1800s the delicacy of fiddle and guitar, or 9:00 am - 3:00 pm and the building of the St. Peter’s the exuberance of voices singing in $150/day or $500/week Canal. And then, in 2002, the historic chorus? This is one of those concerts village became a valued partner of that you can picture each of the This is a hands-on workshop for Celtic Colours, hosting concerts and artists ducking out to the back of the intermediate and advanced players who cultural events and sharing their warm audience to watch the others perform. wish to further their skills and learn the hospitality ever since. Tonight we’ll And who could blame them? The Irish Cape Breton style of playing. Today’s hear multiple award-winning East Coast pipes and harp duo David Power and instructors are Tove de Fries and string-masters J.P. Cormier and Ray Triona Marhsall will set the scene for Kendra MacGillivray. Legere; tunes from the Scottish-Gaelic this uplifting evening with sensitivity contact: Allan Dewar • 902-787-2708 Highland and Island pipes and whistle and style. Cape Breton fiddler Dwayne [email protected] tradition with Brighde Chaimbeul and Côté is known for his expressive hosted by Celtic Music Interpretive Centre Ross Ainslie, accompanied by Stevie playing in a variety of styles, and Roger Byrnes; and songs, steeped in the Stone’s accompaniment, on guitar INTERACTIVE EXHIBIT harmony-rich folk style, influenced by or banjo, is always sympathetic and ROOM TOUR Irish traditional music, Appalachian fitting to the tune. A popular singer Celtic Music Interpretive Centre, Judique singing, and the 1960’s folk revival, from and songwriter himself, Roger’s voice 9:00 am - 5:00 pm • $6 Irish trio Ye Vagabonds. Join us as we will ring out, whether singing his own welcome these artists who’ve traveled songs or anything from the folk-trad Take a journey through the history of across land and sea to play for you songbook. Expect a rousing chorus Cape Breton music, try your hand at tonight in the village by the canal. from the Men of the Deeps. Just playing the fiddle, learn to step dance, or learn some Gaelic words and phrases hosted by imagine the sound of all those voices, at your own pace. Village on the Canal Association together in song, rising to the rafters! contact: Celtic Music Interpretive Centre hosted by 902-787-2708 • [email protected] Nearby Meal: Richmond Roast Pork St. Joseph Parish Dinner Page 43 hosted by Celtic Music Interpretive Centre

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TH GUIDED HIKE IN THE NATIONAL PARADOXICAL: ART & CRAFT 8 ANNUAL ABORIGINAL PARK: ASPY TRAIL BY WELDON BONA ART & CULTURE FESTIVAL Aspy Trailhead, Big Intervale Cape Breton Centre for Craft and Wagmatcook Culture and Heritage Design, Sydney Centre, Wagmatcook First Nation 10:00 am • free with park pass 10:00 am - 4:00 pm • free 10:30 am - 2:00 pm • free Join National Park staff for a guided hike of the Aspy trail, a steady climb Weldon was an artist, graphic designer, A special showcase of Aboriginal through hardwood and mixed forest communicator, and master gardener. art, cultural demonstrations, and to views of the Aspy fault escarpment This exhibition contrasts his whimsical presentations from culture bearers. and waterfall. 3-4 hours, 7.9 km return, hooked rugs and abstract ink drawings contact: Robert Bernard • 902-295-2999 260-410 meter elevation. that depict surreal landscapes, people, [email protected] contact: 902-224-2306 and creatures. hosted by Wagmatcook Culture & hosted by Cape Breton Highlands contact: Holley Grant • 902-270-7491 Heritage Centre National Park [email protected] hosted by Cape Breton Centre for Craft THE ART OF TAMARIN CELTIC HOSPITALITY and Design Centre de la Mi-Carême, WHALE TOUR Grand Étang Harbour Oshan Whale Watch, Bay St. Lawrence ELIZABETH VINCENT EXHIBIT: HOMELANDS 11:00 am - 12:00 pm • $10 10:00 am • free for way up down north J. Franklin Wright Gallery, Learn about local Acadian traditions concert ticket holders Port Hawkesbury while you learn how do make tamarin A special treat for folks with tickets (Acadian taffy). 10:00 am - 8:00 pm • free for the Way Up Down North concert. contact: 902-224-1016 Limited space. Please register in Elizabeth Vincent has worked and lived [email protected] advance with proof of ticket purchase. in both England and Canada, presently hosted by Société Mi-Carême contact: Captain Fraser • 1-877-383-2883 in Nova Scotia. Working in a variety of 40 [email protected] media, her subjects include landscape, SQUARE DANCE WORKSHOP hosted by Northern Cape Breton portrait and still life studies. Little Narrows Community Centre, Development Society contact: Paula Davis • 902-625-7891 Little Narrows [email protected] 11:00 am - 12:30 pm • $12 PLAY SPOONS WITH US hosted by J. Franklin Wright Gallery La Place des arts Père Anselme Join instructor Anita MacDonald as she Chiasson, Chéticamp CULTURAL DEMONSTRATIONS guides you through the figures common Colaisde na Gàidhlig / in Victoria County square dances. Lunch 10:00 am / 1:00 pm • $15 The Gaelic College, St. Ann’s to follow for $10 and then show your Choose between 10-11am or 1-2pm. steps on the Little Narrows Ferry from 10:30 am - 12:00 pm • $5 Participants of all ages will learn the 1:45 – 2:30pm. history of spoon playing, how the Get a first hand-look at the living contact: Anita MacDonald • 902-756-2731 spoons are made, and how to play traditions of the Nova Scotia Gaels with [email protected] them. our cultural demonstrations. hosted by Little Narrows Development contact: Joeleen Larade contact: Gail Montgomery Association 902-224-1406 / 902-371-0189 902-295-3411 • [email protected] [email protected] hosted by Colaisde na Gàidhlig / BADDECK FARMERS MARKET hosted by Le Conseil des arts de Chéticamp The Gaelic College Baddeck Volunteer Fire Department Community Centre, Baddeck CELTIC WALK CBC MAINSTREET LIVE 11:00 am - 2:00 pm • free Scotsville School of Crafts, Knox Presbyterian Church, Baddeck Scotsville A community market that draws from 10:30 am - 12:30 pm • free the surrounding rural communities, 10:00 am - 12:00 pm • donation Join us for a live-to-tape broadcast of showcasing the best in seasonal local Take a two-hour stroll along the South CBC Radio One program Mainstreet, food and Cape Breton artisan wares. West Margaree River. Hosts will sing where host Wendy Bergfeldt interviews hosted by Baddeck and Area Community some songs and discuss aspects of Festival artists and welcomes Market Gaelic culture and history. performances. contact: Verna MacMillan 902-258-2278 contact: Wendy Bergfeldt • 902-563-4151 [email protected] [email protected] hosted by Lake Ainslie Weavers & Craft Guild hosted by CBC Cape Breton CULTURAL EXPERIENCES CULTURAL EXPERIENCES

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LUNCH CEILIDH HOT AND HEARTY LUNCH LITTLE NARROWS LUNCHEON Celtic Music Interpretive Scotsville School of Crafts, Little Narrows Community Centre, Judique Scotsville Centre, Little Narrows

11:00 am - 2:45 pm • $6; menu pricing 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm • $10 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm • $10 Enjoy lunch in a fun atmosphere Made from fresh, locally-grown Little Narrows Church Women’s Group featuring local food and drinks and live ingredients, a bowl of homemade soup is preparing a luncheon of homemade music with Kendra MacGillivray, Tove and biscuits followed by home-baked soup made with local ingredients, de Fries and friends. apple crumble with ice cream, tea or biscuits and baked dessert. Enjoy contact: Celtic Music Interpretive Centre coffee. lunch, come early for the Square Dance 902-787-2708 • [email protected] contact: Verna MacMillan • 902-258-2278 Workshop ($12 at 11am) or stay for hosted by Celtic Music Interpretive Centre [email protected] the Square Dance on the ferry (free at hosted by Lake Ainslie Weavers & 1:45pm) TRANSITIONS Craft Guild contact: Anita MacDonald • 902-756-2731 Inverness County Centre [email protected] for the Arts, Inverness ACADIAN KITCHEN PARTY hosted by Little Narrows Development Le Gabriel Family Restaurant, Association 11:00 am - 5:00 pm • free Chéticamp A contemporary textile exhibition by AUTUMN PAINT OUT 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm • menu pricing the members of the Studio Art Quilt Salty Rose’s and the Associates of the Atlantic Region The local tourism cooperative works Periwinkle Café, Ingonish contact: Elizabeth Whalley • 902-258-2533 with the village’s restaurants to offer 12:30 pm - 4:00 pm [email protected] Acadian music and cuisine for an $35 includes materials hosted by Inverness County Centre enjoyable lunch offering. for the Arts contact: Jérémie Poirier • 902-224-2642 Explore the beautiful coast of North [email protected] Ingonish with painter Lynda Lou FILM SCREENING: hosted by La Société Saint-Pierre MacIntyre as your guide. The group will 41 THE GROOVE IS NOT TRIVIAL bring sketches back to a home base cafe Cape Breton University Rotary Music DOORS OPEN FOR CHURCHES where you’ll use watercolours to create Performance Centre, Sydney Please check website for a unique painting. Supplies included. participating churches contact: Caitlyn Purcell 11:30 am - 1:00 pm • free 902-202-2431 • [email protected] 12:00 pm - 4:00 pm • free / donation This film follows master fiddler Alasdair hosted by Cape Breton Centre for Craft Fraser’s personal journey and musical The public is invited to explore some and Design explorations. Dr. Heather Sparling leads of Cape Breton’s built heritage. Select a short discussion following the film. churches in Victoria County and CBRM THE BELL SERIES contact: Heather Sparling are open for tours. Alexander Graham Bell National 902-563-1242 • [email protected] contact: Marg Herdman • 902-227-8303 Historic Site, Baddeck hosted by Cape Breton University [email protected] 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm • free with park pass hosted by Heritage Trust of Nova Scotia SPAGHETTI DINNER An interactive performance based St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church CELTIC CONVERSATIONS SERIES presentation from featured festival North River, North River McConnell Library, Sydney artists as they share conversations about their life and work. 12:00 pm • $15 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm • free contact: Madeline Harvey Spaghetti dinner with vegetarian and Music and conversation from featured 902-295-2069 • [email protected] gluten-free options, served with rolls / festival artists provides insight into hosted by Parks Canada’s Alexander biscuits, dessert, and tea or coffee. their life and work. Brought to you by Graham Bell National Historic Site contact: Janet Dauphney • 902-929-2205 Eastlink. [email protected] contact: Tara • 902-562-3279 hosted by St. Andrew’s Presbyterian [email protected] North River hosted by Cape Breton Regional Library CULTURAL EXPERIENCES

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ACADIAN FUDGE MAKING BOAT TOUR OF CHAPEL ISLAND [email protected] Centre de la Mi-Carême, Chapel Island Wharf, Potlotek hosted by Margaree Salmon Association Grand Étang Harbour 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm • $30 BAILE NAN GÀIDHEAL 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm • $10 Join us for a boat tour of Chapel Island MILLING FROLIC Learn about Acadian local traditions, National Historic site, a sacred place for Baile nan Gàidheal / enjoy a guided tour of the exhibit, and the Mi’kmaq community, with a stop Highland Village, Iona then make some fudge! on Alex Island for a traditional meal and 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm contact: 902-224-1016 demonstrations. museum charges apply [email protected] contact: Noelle Doucette hosted by Société Mi-Carême 902-535-3160 • [email protected] Join us for a traditional milling frolic in hosted by Potlotek Education a period setting at the Highland Village. Refreshments served. WEAVING DEMONSTRATION Scotsville School of Crafts, BIG SQUARE DANCE IN contact: Baile nan Gàidheal / Scotsville LITTLE NARROWS Highland Village 902-725-2272 Little Narrows Ferry, Little Narrows hosted by Baile nan Gàidheal / 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm • donation Highland Village 1:45 pm - 2:30 pm • free Come and try your hand at one of the oldest surviving crafts in the world. For this special event, a Square Dance CAPE NORTH SQUARE SET Knowledgable hand-weavers lead you will be held right on board the ferry. The & TRADITIONAL SKILLS DEMONSTRATIONS through this demonstration. Ferry Captain will park the vessel on the North Highlands Community Museum, contact: Verna MacMillan • 902-258-2278 Little Narrows side of the channel. [email protected] Led by Anita MacDonald. Cape North hosted by Lake Ainslie Weavers & contact: Anita MacDonald • 902-756-2731 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm Craft Guild [email protected] $3 each; $8 per family hosted by Little Narrows Development Kick up your heels and join in a Cape 42 LAKESIDE IMPRESSIONS Association ART & CRAFT EXHIBIT North square dance set, and drop in to the Scotsville School of Crafts, Scotsville SGEUL ANNS GACH DEALBH: museum where various culture bearers A STORY IN EVERY PICTURE provide demonstrations of their skills. 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm • donation An Drochaid: Mabou Gaelic contact: Mike Gorey • 902-383-2579 A unique showcase of visual art and & Historical Society, Mabou [email protected] crafts from local area artists and hosted by North Highlands Community 2:00 pm • $10 artisans for your viewing pleasure. Organization contact: Verna MacMillan • 902-258-2278 Acclaimed local artist Peter Rankin will [email protected] present a selection of his paintings, OPEN MIC JAM SESSION hosted by Lake Ainslie Weavers & inspired by local events and characters Bras d’Or Yacht Club, Baddeck Craft Guild from the Gaelic tradition. Come hear 2:00 pm - 6:00 pm • donation the stories behind the paintings. He will TRAD JAM SESSION be joined by his sisters, sharing their Bring your instrument and join us for Colaisde na Gàidhlig / singing talents. Tea to follow. our daily Open Mic Jam, hosted by The Gaelic College, St. Ann’s contact: Margie Beaton • 902-945-2790 Englishtown’s own Michael Cavanaugh. [email protected] contact: Lavonne Grant 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm • free hosted by Mabou Gaelic & Historical Society 902-295-2107 • [email protected] Come jam with us! Bring your Comunn Gàidhlig & Eachdraidh Mhàbu hosted by Bras d’Or Yacht Club instruments, voice, dancing shoes, or CBU ALL AGES SQUARE DANCE just yourself and enjoy some traditional LEARN TO FLY FISH Cape Breton University, Sydney tunes. Bar services will be available. The Old Miller Trout Farm, contact: Margie Beaton • 902-295-3411 Margaree Forks 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm • free [email protected] 2:00 pm • donation All ages are welcome to join us for this hosted by Colaisde na Gàidhlig / The Gaelic College Local angling guides and experienced fun activity with live music. There will fishers demonstrate casting and be a caller on hand to guide you through fly fishing, then you will have an the steps. No experience required. opportunity to practice these skills in the contact: Heather Sparling • 902-563-1242 pond on the grounds of the trout farm. [email protected] hosted by contact: Bill Haley • 902-235-2382 Cape Breton University CULTURAL EXPERIENCES CULTURAL EXPERIENCES & CONCERTS

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TOP OF THE ISLAND RICHMOND ROAST TRADITIONAL SEAFOOD PORK DINNER SUPPER Riverdale Community Centre, Lower Bay St. Lawrence Community Centre, River Inhabitants Bay St. Lawrence 5:00 pm • $20 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm • $35 Enjoy roast pork stuffed with a savory An all-local three-course meal of dressing in a spiced apple sauce, roasted baked mussels, seafood lasagne made potato and steamed vegetable, and a with lobster and crab, oven-roasted hand-made dessert. vegetables, and apple crisp stuffed contact: Ken Reynolds • 902-631-4871 apples for dessert. [email protected] contact: Amy MacKinnon • 902-383-2334 hosted by Riverdale Community Centre [email protected] GUITAR SUMMIT hosted by Bay St. Lawrence Community ANNUAL SALMON DINNER Centre St. Mary’s Parish Hall, Mabou J.P. Cormier

5:00 pm - 6:30 pm • $27 Ray Legere LOBSTER AND CRAB SUPPER Eddy Poirier St. Andrew’s Parish Hall, Enjoy a community dinner of salmon, Neil’s Harbour white sauce, mashed potatoes, Darren McMullen vegetables, rolls, coleslaw, tea or coffee 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm • $30 and choice of dessert Judique Community Centre, Meal includes one locally-harvested contact: Dianne Cox • 902-945-2031 Judique • 7:30 pm • $35 lobster and half a crab, potato salad, [email protected] coleslaw, roll, beverage, and dessert. hosted by Mabou Hall (St. Mary’s Parish) It might be difficult to top last year’s contact: Dave Donovan • 902-336-2546 Guitar Summit, but with this lineup of multi-instrumental guitar heroes [email protected] BEERS AND BITES: 43 hosted by Neil’s Harbour / New Haven A TRADITIONAL TASTE we just might do so in Judique tonight. Development Association OF CAPE BRETON This popular Thursday night concert Breton Brewing, Coxheath has, over the years, explored the ever- WEST BAY ROAD FISH evolving role this most ubiquitous of 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm • $30 CHOWDER SUPPER instruments has played in the context West Bay Road Fire Hall, West Bay Road Enjoy a sampler plate of delicious of Celtic music. Whether sophisticated foods sourced completely from local chording accompaniment, full- 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm • $14 producers across Cape Breton Island, speed ahead finger and flat-picking Hearty, home-cooked fish chowder paired with a 20 oz craft beer (cider or tunes, flavourful harmony lines, or served with fresh rolls, dessert and wine available). sympathetic and syncopated rhythmic tea or coffee. There is also a pot without contact: Jill McPherson structures, the Summit has a knack shellfish available. [email protected] for attracting just the right players contact: Irene MacDonald • 902-625-2596 hosted by Pan Cape Breton Food Hub Co-op to put it all on display. This year the [email protected] inimitable J.P. Cormier is at the center hosted by West Bay Road Ladies Auxiliary KITCHEN RACKETS of a most versatile and virtuosic group JAM SESSIONS of players, including New Brunswick LOUISBOURG ROAST Bras d’Or Lakes Inn, St. Peter’s Country Music Hall of Famer Ray BEEF DINNER Legere, Acadian / Country / Bluegrass 10:30 pm - 1:00 am • $5; free for Calvin Memorial Hall, Louisbourg legend Eddy Poirier, and the busiest players; freewill donation with concert player of stringed instruments on the 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm • $18 ticket stub from today East Coast, Darren McMullen. Tune up, Delicious roast beef, mashed potatoes, Open jam session following a welcome or down to DADGAD, and away we go. performance by your local artist hosts. fresh vegetables, rolls, homemade pies, hosted by tea, and coffee. Visiting players are invited to sit in with Judique Community Centre Development contact: Caroline Pitcher • 902-565-9183 Cape Breton local players. Listeners Association [email protected] welcome. These late-night jams take hosted by Louisbourg First United Church place after the local concerts. Women contact: Rob Woodley • 902-345-2996 [email protected] Nearby Meal: Pan-Fried Haddock hosted by Kitchen Rackets Organization Dinner Page 49 CONCERTS

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CELTIC PUB VOICES OF THE A FULL SLATE Socks in the Frying Pan NAOMHÓG ENCORE Cy & Edwina Guickian Rosie MacKenzie Donna Marie DeWolfe Mairi Rankin & Eric Wright Breanndán Ó Beaglaoich & Joël Chiasson Rum Ragged Mary Jane Lamond & Dave MacIsaac Kathleen MacInnes Margaret Bennett Inverary Resort - MacAulay

Conference Centre, Baddeck Troy MacGillivray & Norman Kennedy 7:30 pm • $35 Kenneth MacKenzie L’Ardoise Community Centre, Conchúbhair Ó Beaglaoich L’Ardoise • 7:30 pm • $30 The weekend is in sight, so why not get started a little early by heading Liam Holden 44 L’Ardoise, or “Lordways” as it tends out to the Pub? It’s the last night Baile nan Gàidheal / Highland to be said, is a small fishing village on of Socks in the Frying Pan and Village, Iona • 7:30 pm • $30 the Island’s southern coast that was Edwina Guickian’s first visit to Celtic settled by French Acadiens. They called Colours. Let’s see them off in style Inspired by Irish musician Breanndán their new home L’Ardoise, meaning by keeping them up late with drinks Ó Beaglaoich’s 2017 journey from “slate”, for the large deposits of rock and tunes at the Pub. It’s Mairi Ireland to Spain in a traditional Irish and slate they found along the shore. Rankin and Eric Wright’s last night rowboat, Voices of the Naomhóg will Considering “a full slate” as something for the Festival this year, too. They see this group of artists teaming up of a full schedule of events, it could all played together Tuesday night in to build and row their own naomhóg certainly be said that that is exactly Lower River Inhabitants. Let’s see from Baddeck to Iona. While the boats what we have in store tonight—a full if they picked up any tunes from are being built, with the assistance of slate of songs and tunes and singers each other to share with us all before Mi’kmaq craftsmen, the artists will from the Scottish, Gaelic, Acadian and they take off. And while they are create new music, Gaelic song, and Cape Breton traditions, along with all on their way back to Ireland and dance to be presented at concerts in a powerhouse trio to play the tunes. points west, Rum Ragged is showing Baddeck and Iona. Baddeck fiddler Cy’s original mix of folk, progressive up fresh and ready and raring to go Rosie MacKenzie, who has spent and traditional styles, along with a for their Celtic Colours debut. With the last number of years working on boisterous sense of humour, will serve accordion, banjo, bodhran, bass, sailboats around the world, has been the young quartet well tonight. Cape guitar, and harmonizing vocals, this a frequent musical collaborator with Breton fiddler Donna Marie DeWolfe, new quartet represents the best of Breanndán. This repeat performance is accompanied by two of the very Newfoundland’s traditional music. of Voices of the Naomhóg takes place best, Joël Chiasson on piano and Dave Whether an intimate pub show or in a church moved to the Highland MacIsaac on guitar. And Margaret headlining a festival, Rum Ragged Village from Mi’kmaq territory shared Bennett and Norman Kennedy will delivers the goods on stage. From equally among all five First Nations bring the Gaelic songs and the stories spirited instrumentals to heartfelt on Cape Breton Island. that go with them. ballads, the respect they have for those who came before them is hosted by hosted by obvious, and clearly the foundation of Nova Scotia Highland Village Society L’Ardoise Men’s Club a fresh, unique sound of their own. Nearby Meal: Roast Pork Supper Nearby Meal: Muin and the Seven 19 & over; photo id required Page 49 Hunters Dinner Theatre Page 49 CONCERTS CONCERTS

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UNITED IN MUSIC THE HILLS SHAPED BY MUSIC Calvin Vollrath ARE ALIVE Ye Vagabonds Cape Breton Chorale Ùr: The Future of our Past Lisa Cameron Brenda Stubbert Cyril MacPhee & Vern MacDougall & Kolten MacDonell Gangspil Brighde Chaimbeul & Ross Ainslie United Protestant Church of Sydney St. Peter’s Parish, Ingonish River • 7:30 pm • $30/25 7:30 pm • $30 Cape Breton Highlands Academy, Belle Côte • 7:30 pm • $30/25 Isn’t there just something about Ùr literally means “new” in Gaelic beautiful music in a church that makes and for the third year in a row, an Known as Canada’s Musical Coast, it just a little more beautiful than exciting new group of students hand- Inverness County has been lovingly 45 usual? There’s really nothing quite like picked from the Royal Conservatoire described as “…a string of beautiful it, and with his evening’s concert at of Scotland will be showcasing their communities and majestic coastline United Protestant Church in Sydney exceptional talents during Celtic vistas bound together by musical River you won’t even have to imagine Colours. This year’s edition of Ùr: The traditions. The music culture here the heavenly sound of a choir. United in Future of our Past maintains the high is written into the story…the very Music brings together the Cape Breton standard set by their predecessors. fabric of the coastline. During harsh Chorale—more than 40 voices united Featuring pipes, whistles, fiddle, winters and trying times, music and in song, and two beautiful fiddlers who guitar, clarsach, piano and song, dance were neither indulgence nor have each had a significant impact and these young players and singers will luxury, but rather survival. Music influence on their respective fiddling ensure the hills of Ingonish are alive culture here is honest, authentic and traditions. Fiddler Calvin Vollrath, a with music tonight. Cape Breton shared directly from the heart—this North American fiddle champion who singer and songwriter Cyril MacPhee is a coast shaped by music.” These has composed more than 600 tunes, is a familiar face in this area and singers and players from Ireland, returns to the Festival from his home a regular performer at the nearby Scotland and Cape Breton can relate in St. Paul, Alberta. This concert will Keltic Lodge resort. Always ready to being shaped by music. They’ve unite Calvin’s Métis influenced style with his quick wit and a great song to been with the tradition since early in and tradition with Cape Breton’s, back it up, Cyril is one of the Island’s life and music has certainly played its by way of the incomparable Brenda favourite performers. Tonight’s part in shaping who they are today. Stubbert, who has been known to concert at this beautiful church in The drive to Belle Côte, north through compose a tune or two herself. There scenic Ingonish introduces award- the scenic Margaree Valley or south is a great appreciation between Brenda winning Danish duo Gangspil. With from the Cape Breton Highlands is and Calvin so expect a lively finale from island roots and a musical culture well-worth taking your time for. these two influential and entertaining inspired by dance and folk music,they hosted by fiddlers. should have no problem fitting in here. Margaree Area Development Association hosted by hosted by Men’s Brotherhood-United Protestant St. Peter’s Parish CWL Church of Sydney River

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LIGHTHOUSE BREAKFAST PLAY SPOONS WITH US hooked rugs and abstract ink drawings Cape North Fire Hall, Cape North La Place des arts Père Anselme that depict surreal landscapes, people, Chiasson, Chéticamp and creatures. 8:30 am - 12:30 pm • $10 contact: Holley Grant • 902-270-7491 10:00 am / 1:00 pm • $15 Stop in for a healthy breakfast before [email protected] you head out and explore the beautiful Choose between 10-11am or 1-2pm. hosted by Cape Breton Centre for Craft Cape Breton Highlands. Participants of all ages will learn the and Design contact: Ruby Fraser • 902-383-2289 history of spoon playing, how the TH [email protected] spoons are made, and how to play 7 ANNUAL QUILT hosted by St. Paul Island Historical Society them. SHOW AND SALE contact: Joeleen Larade Belle Côte Community Centre, BUDDY MACMASTER FIDDLE CAMP 902-224-1406 / 902-371-0189 Belle Côte Celtic Music Interpretive Centre, [email protected] 10:00 am - 6:00 pm • donation Judique hosted by Le Conseil des arts de Chéticamp A delightful show of traditional and 9:00 am - 3:00 pm FINDING YOUR ROOTS - contemporary quilts, smaller wall $150/day or $500/week A GENEALOGY WORKSHOP hangings and clothing, much of which This is a hands-on workshop for Baile nan Gàidheal / will be for sale. Demonstrations of intermediate and advanced players who Highland Village, Iona quilting techniques will be given. wish to further their skills and learn the contact: Bea Tilsley • 902-258-3048 10:00 am - 11:00 am • $15 Cape Breton style of playing. Today’s [email protected] instructors are Andrea Beaton and This workshop will lead you through hosted by Celtic Quilt Guild Wendy MacIsaac. some tips and tricks to help you find the contact: Allan Dewar • 902-787-2708 roots of your family. Call ahead to book ELIZABETH VINCENT EXHIBIT: [email protected] a spot. HOMELANDS hosted by Celtic Music Interpretive Centre contact: Baile nan Gàidheal / Highland J. Franklin Wright Gallery, 46 Village 902-725-2272 Port Hawkesbury INTERACTIVE EXHIBIT hosted by Baile nan Gàidheal / 10:00 am - 8:00 pm • free ROOM TOUR Highland Village Celtic Music Interpretive Centre, Judique Elizabeth Vincent has worked and lived OPEN HOUSE WITH in both England and Canada, presently 9:00 am - 5:00 pm • $6 PARKS CANADA in Nova Scotia. Working in a variety of Take a journey through the history of CAPE BRETON HIGHLANDS NATIONAL media, her subjects include landscape, PARK ARTIST IN RESIDENCE Cape Breton music, try your hand at portrait and still life studies. Keltic Lodge, Ingonish Beach playing the fiddle, learn to step dance, contact: Paula Davis • 902-625-7891 [email protected] or learn some Gaelic words and phrases 10:00 am - 2:00 pm • free with park pass at your own pace. hosted by J. Franklin Wright Gallery Parks Canada Cape Breton Highlands contact: Celtic Music Interpretive Centre 902-787-2708 • [email protected] National Park Residency, now in its CULTURAL DEMONSTRATIONS second year, attracts professional hosted by Celtic Music Interpretive Centre Colaisde na Gàidhlig / artists worldwide. Come see what this The Gaelic College, St. Ann’s GUIDED HIKE IN THE year’s artist-in- residence has been 10:30 am - 12:00 pm • $5 NATIONAL PARK: MIDDLE HEAD working on. Middle Head Trailhead, Ingonish contact: Tamsin Sloots • 902-539-7491 Get a first hand look at the living [email protected] traditions of the Nova Scotia Gaels with 10:00 am • free with park pass hosted by Cape Breton Centre for Craft our cultural demonstrations. Bring your Join National Park staff for a guided and Design cameras! hike of Middle Head. This hike takes contact: Gail Montgomery PARADOXICAL: ART & CRAFT you to the tip of an ocean headland that 902-295-3411 • [email protected] BY WELDON BONA is home to a large variety of seabirds. hosted by Colaisde na Gàidhlig / Cape Breton Centre for Craft and 3.8 km loop, 0-45 meter elevation. The Gaelic College Design, Sydney contact: 902-224-2306 [email protected] 10:00 am - 4:00 pm • free hosted by Cape Breton Highlands National Park Weldon was an artist, graphic designer, communicator, and master gardener. This exhibition contrasts his whimsical CULTURAL EXPERIENCES CULTURAL EXPERIENCES

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YOUNGSTERS STORY SERIES: art, cultural demonstrations, and contact: Celtic Music Interpretive Centre SYDNEY presentations from culture bearers. 902-787-2708 • [email protected] McConnell Library, Sydney contact: Robert Bernard • 902-295-2999 hosted by Celtic Music Interpretive Centre [email protected] 10:30 am - 11:15 am • free hosted by Wagmatcook Culture & TRANSITIONS Cape Breton authors and illustrators Heritage Centre Inverness County Centre share their work in this special interactive for the Arts, Inverness workshop for the kids. FIDDLE FROM SCRATCH 11:00 am - 5:00 pm • free contact: Tara • 902-562-3279 Brooks Haven Seniors’ Recreation [email protected] Centre, Prime Brook A contemporary textile exhibition by hosted by Cape Breton Regional Library the members of the Studio Art Quilt 11:00 am - 12:00 pm • $35 Associates of the Atlantic Region. YOUNGSTERS STORY SERIES: Have you always wanted to try the contact: Elizabeth Whalley BADDECK fiddle? Dwayne Côté will have fiddle and 902-258-2533 • [email protected] Baddeck Library, Baddeck bows on site and can lead you through hosted by Inverness County Centre the basics. for the Arts 10:30 am - 11:15 am • free contact: Lisa Côté • 902-371-8948 Cape Breton authors and illustrators [email protected] MARGAREE LUNCHEON share their work in this special interactive hosted by Brooks Haven Seniors’ St. Patrick’s Parish Hall, North East workshop for the kids. Recreation Centre Margaree contact: Baddeck Library • 902-295 2055 11:30 am - 1:00 pm • $9 [email protected] STORYTELLING TOUR hosted by Cape Breton Regional Library AND MILLING FROLIC Enjoy hot homemade soup with a Baile nan Gàidheal / biscuit and choose from a variety of YOUNGSTERS STORY SERIES: Highland Village, Iona sweets. NORTHSIDE 11:00 am - 1:00 pm • $25 contact: Pat Stinson • 902-248-2080 Wilfred Oram Centennial Library, [email protected] 47 North Sydney Come join us for a special storytelling hosted by St. Patricks’ C.W.L tour of the Highland Village. This 10:30 am - 11:15 am • free folk-life experience will give you insight LUNCH, MUSIC, HIKE Cape Breton authors and illustrators into the lives and stories of Nova Scotia St. Ann’s Bay United Church, share their work in this special interactive Gaels. Reservations required. Indian Brook workshop for the kids. contact: Baile nan Gàidheal / Highland 12:00 pm • $12 contact: Wilfred Oram Centennial Library Village 902-725-2272 902-794-3272 • [email protected] hosted by Baile nan Gàidheal / Choose from a variety of soups, hosted by Cape Breton Regional Library Highland Village including a vegetarian option, with rolls, biscuits, tea or coffee, and dessert. CBC MAINSTREET LIVE PORT HAWKESBURY Following the lunch, at 1pm, take a Knox Presbyterian Church, Baddeck CEILIDH MARKET guided 90 minute hike along the scenic Port Hawkesbury Civic Centre, Port Red Island Trail adjacent to the church. 10:30 am - 12:30 pm • free Hawkesbury contact: Marion Thompson Join us for a live-to-tape broadcast of 11:00 am - 2:00 pm • free 902-929-2270 • [email protected] CBC Radio One program Mainstreet, hosted by St. Ann’s Bay United Church where host Wendy Bergfeldt interviews Celebrate the fall harvest and check out Festival artists and welcomes the variety of locally grown or produced ACADIAN KITCHEN PARTY performances. products and artisan wares. Frog Pond Café, Chéticamp contact: Wendy Bergfeldt • 902-563-4151 hosted by Port Hawkesbury Ceilidh Market [email protected] 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm • menu pricing hosted by CBC Cape Breton LUNCH CEILIDH The local tourism cooperative works Celtic Music Interpretive with the village’s restaurants to offer TH 8 ANNUAL ABORIGINAL Centre, Judique Acadian music and cuisine for an ART & CULTURE FESTIVAL 11:00 am - 2:45 pm • $6; menu pricing enjoyable lunch offering. Wagmatcook Culture and Heritage contact: Jérémie Poirier Centre, Wagmatcook First Nation Enjoy lunch in a fun atmosphere 902-224-2642 • jpoirier@ featuring local food and drinks and live 10:30 am - 2:00 pm • free lestroispignons.com Cape Breton music with Andrea Beaton, hosted by La Société Saint-Pierre A special showcase of Aboriginal Wendy MacIsaac and friends. CULTURAL EXPERIENCES

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AUTUMN TREASURES - RAG RUG HOOKING LAKESIDE IMPRESSIONS ART ART SHOW AND SALE FEATURING DEMONSTRATION & CRAFT EXHIBIT LOCAL ARTISTS Scotsville School of Crafts, Scotsville Scotsville School of Crafts, Scotsville Grand Lake Road Fire Hall, Sydney 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm • donation 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm • donation 12:00 pm - 8:00 pm • $3 Learn all about rag rug hooking from A unique showcase of visual art and An exhibition and sale of paintings and talented fibre artist Christine Hayes as crafts from local area artists and fine art featuring local artists. she demonstrates. She will also have artisans for your viewing pleasure. contact: Mora Smith • 902-539-3172 completed works on hand. contact: Verna MacMillan [email protected] contact: Verna MacMillan 902-258-2278 hosted by Rt. Hon. Vincent Massey 902-258-2278 [email protected] Chapter IODE [email protected] hosted by Lake Ainslie Weavers hosted by Lake Ainslie Weavers & Craft Guild CELTIC CONVERSATIONS SERIES & Craft Guild McConnell Library, Sydney HIKE THE HILL ACADIAN FUDGE MAKING The Lakes Golf Club, Ben Eoin 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm • free Centre de la Mi-Carême, 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm • free / donation Music and conversation from featured Grand Étang Harbour Festival artists provides insight into Meet naturalists and local historians 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm • $10 their life and work. Brought to you by along this hike through ski trails and Eastlink. Learn about local Acadian traditions, semi-wooded areas to the top of Ben contact: Tara • 902-562-3279 enjoy a guided tour of the exhibit, and Eoin hill overlooking the Bras d’Or Lake [email protected] then make some fudge! UNESCO Biosphere reserve. hosted by Cape Breton Regional Library contact: 902-224-1016 contact: Jim Burton • 902-564-4155 [email protected] [email protected] THE BELL SERIES hosted by Société Mi-Carême hosted by Bras d’Or Lake Biosphere 48 Alexander Graham Bell National Reserve Association Historic Site, Baddeck TRAD JAM SESSION Colaisde na Gàidhlig / GAELIC SONG WORKSHOP 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm • free with park pass The Gaelic College, St. Ann’s AND MILLING FROLIC An interactive, performance-based Scotsville School of Crafts, Scotsville 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm • free presentation from featured Festival 2:00 pm • $10 artists as they share conversations Come jam with us! Bring your about their life and work. instruments, voice, dancing shoes, or Gather around the milling table and contact: Madeline Harvey just yourself and enjoy some traditional learn of the aspects of daily life, history 902-295-2069 • [email protected] tunes. Bar services will be available. and culture found in Gaelic songs. hosted by Parks Canada’s Alexander contact: Margie Beaton • 902-295-3411 contact: Verna MacMillan • 902-258-2278 Graham Bell National Historic Site [email protected] [email protected] hosted by Colaisde na Gàidhlig / hosted by Lake Ainslie Weavers STEPPIN’ WITH THE LADIES The Gaelic College & Craft Guild Every Woman’s Centre, Sydney WEAVING DEMONSTRATION OUR RIVER, OUR PEOPLE, 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm • $12 Scotsville School of Crafts, Scotsville OUR STORIES Learn the Cape Breton style of step Drs. Coady & Tompkins Memorial 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm • donation dancing from the award-winning Library, Margaree Forks teacher Kelly MacArthur in this Come and try your hand at one of the 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm • donation participatory beginner class. oldest surviving crafts in the world. contact: Wanda Earhart • 902-567-1212 Knowledgable hand-weavers lead you Visit the cozy community library for an [email protected] through this demonstration. enjoyable afternoon of stories about the hosted by Every Woman’s Centre contact: Verna MacMillan • 902-258-2278 Margaree River, settlers, scholars, bards [email protected] and fishermen. hosted by Lake Ainslie Weavers contact: Eileen Coady • 902-248-2951 & Craft Guild [email protected] hosted by Margaree Area Development Association CULTURAL EXPERIENCES CULTURAL EXPERIENCES

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OPEN MIC JAM SESSION PAN-FRIED HADDOCK DINNER DINE WITH LES MI-CARÊMES Bras d’Or Yacht Club, Baddeck Celtic Music Interpretive Centre, Centre de la Mi-Carême, Judique Grand Étang Harbour 2:00 pm - 6:00 pm • donation 4:30 pm - 6:30 pm • $16 / menu prices 5:00 pm - 7:30 pm • $35 Bring your instrument and join us for our daily Open Mic Jam, hosted by Panfried haddock dinner with mashed Enjoy local tastes of the land with a Englishtown’s own Michael Cavanaugh. potatoes, vegetables, dessert, and tea soupe verte (vegetable soup), followed contact: Lavonne Grant or coffee for $16. Seafood chowder, by fish cakes with salad from gardens 902-295-2107 • [email protected] lobster sandwich, or other non-seafood in Margaree, and blueberry pie with hosted by Bras d’Or Yacht Club items available at menu prices. No berries from the Highlands. reservations. contact: 902-224-1016 TUNES & TALK WITH RAY LEGERE contact: Celtic Music Interpretive Centre [email protected] & FRIENDS 902-787-2708 • [email protected] hosted by Société Mi-Carême Celtic Music Interpretive Centre, hosted by Celtic Music Interpretive Centre Judique INGONISH JAM SESSION APPLE-GLAZED ROAST PORK Arduaine Restaurant 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm • donation United Protestant Church of at Keltic Lodge, Ingonish Ray will talk about music and touring, Sydney River, Sydney River 10:00 pm - 1:00 am • $10; $8 for hill answer audience questions and 5:00 pm • $15 are alive concert ticket holders; free demonstrate various styles along with for jammers some musical friends. Apple-glazed roast pork, potatoes and contact: Celtic Music Interpretive Centre vegetables with dessert, and tea or Players and listeners welcome for 902-787-2708 • [email protected] coffee. Reservations recommended. an after-concert jam session where hosted by Celtic Music Interpretive Centre contact: Church Office • 902-562-4145 visitors and locals share songs and hosted by Mens Brotherhood of Sydney tunes. Cash bar and light menu MUIN AND THE SEVEN River United available. HUNTERS DINNER THEATRE contact: Donald Jardine • 902-285-4119 49 Mikmawey School, Potlotek HOT TURKEY DINNER [email protected] Ingonish Fire Hall and Community hosted by Ingonish Development Society 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm • $30 Centre, Ingonish “Muin and the Seven Bird Hunters” KITCHEN RACKETS JAM SESSIONS 5:00 pm • $15 is a traditional Mi’kmaw story linking Bras d’Or Lakes Inn, St. Peter’s the movement of the stars and A hot turkey dinner with all the 10:30 pm - 1:00 am • $5; free for seasons, depicted through a play by trimmings, dessert and beverage. players; freewill donation with concert Potlotek’s Elementary school students, contact: Marilyn MacLean •902-285-2434 ticket stub from today accompanied by a three-course meal of [email protected] salad, roast beef dinner and dessert. hosted by United Church Women Ingonish Open jam session following a welcome contact: Noelle Doucette performance by your local artist hosts. 902-535-3160 • [email protected] ROAST PORK SUPPER Visiting players are invited to sit in with hosted by Potlotek Education Grandona Royal Canadian Legion Cape Breton local players. Listeners Branch 124, Iona welcome. These late-night jams take PRIME BROOK ROAST BEEF place after the local concerts. 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm • $18 Brooks Haven Seniors’ contact: Rob Woodley • 902-345-2996 Recreation Centre, Prime Brook A roast pork supper with dessert, tea, [email protected] and coffee. hosted by Kitchen Rackets Organization 4:00 pm - 6:30 pm • $18 contact: Hugh C. MacNeil •902-622-2008 A locally-sourced roast beef dinner [email protected] with vegetables and all the trimmings, hosted by Royal Canadian Legion Branch dessert, and tea or coffee. 124 Grandona contact: Lisa Côté • 902-371-8948 [email protected] hosted by Brooks Haven Seniors’ Put Celtic Colours in Recreation Centre your pocket! Our website is mobile friendly celtic-colours.com CONCERTS

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TUNES ON MUSIC OF THE FRIENDS THE MIRA NIGHT: MUSIQUE AND FAMILY Ye Vagabonds DE LA NUIT J.P. Cormier & Dave Gunning Maxim Cormier Ronald Bourgeois Calvin Vollrath & Gervais Cormier Rosie MacKenzie Douglas Cameron Paul Cranford & Mario Colosimo & Breanndán Ó Beaglaoich & Lawrence Cameron Warner Sisters Marion Bridge Recreation Centre, Cy Stephen & Lewis MacLennan Marion Bridge • 2:00 pm • $30 Margaret Bennett & Norman Kennedy Inverness Education Centre / Academy, The Mira River has inspired tribute Gabrielle MacLellan Inverness • 7:30 pm • $30/25 50 in song and is known for its beauty and the culture associated with the & Tom Daniels It’s nice to have friends and family get surrounding area. Sharing songs and Danelle & Céline Doucet together for some music and dancing and playing tunes is an age-old tradition a good old time. And who better to have at along the Mira, where life would not Fortress of Louisbourg National the party than this crew. J.P. Cormier and exist as we know it without the bridges Historic Site • 5:30 pm • $150 Dave Gunning are great pals who go way that span the famous waterway to back musically. They’ve recently recorded connect the communities on either It’s Friday night in the French fortress an album together and have been touring side. One of those communities is town of Louisbourg, in the middle of all over with it. J.P. and world-champion Marion Bridge where this afternoon’s the 18th century. Music and laughter Métis style fiddler and composer Calvin concert features tunes from the spill out onto the streets as villagers Vollrath share a mutual admiration for Cape Breton tradition by fiddler and gather at pubs and restaurants. each other and are excited to be playing composer Paul Cranford and piano- Conversation mingles with music in this show. Cape Breton fiddler Douglas player Mario Colosimo. Chéticamp over a delicious meal while lively Cameron has been performing regularly guitar duo Maxim and Gervais Cormier tunes draw the dancers to the hall. at Celtic Colours with his piano playing incorporate a variety of influences, Experience it all for yourself at this father Lawrence since 2010. Music and from classical to traditional, into one-of-a-kind night on the town dance go hand-in-hand, of course, and as their repertoire of tunes. Irish group that starts with an 18th century meal. the music runs in families so does dance. Ye Vagabonds should feel at home Great entertainment continues as you Tonight we see young dancer Stephen on the Mira where there’s always travel from one reconstructed stone MacLennan, who has been featured at the time for a cup of tea, or something a building to another. You’ll find music Festival for the last four years, performing little stronger, and a lively exchange everywhere from French and Gaelic on stage with his brother Lewis. And they of songs, tunes and stories. This is songs to tunes from Cape Breton and are sharing the bill tonight with their the famous Mira River so take the Scotland, just right for toe-tapping mother Kelly and aunt Melody, celebrated opportunity to soak in the scenery and and dancing. Bring comfy shoes and a dancers known as the Warner Sisters. serenity of a magical place. sweater! hosted by hosted by hosted by Inverness Academy (Student Council) Marion Bridge Community Council Fortress Louisbourg Association

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FIDDLE AND MASTERS ANCHORED FOLK FRIDAY OF MELODY IN TRADITION Kate Rusby Kimberley Fraser & Mac Morin Mary Jane Lamond Dwayne Côté Allan MacDonald & Wendy MacIsaac & Jason MacDonald & Dave MacIsaac Shelly Campbell Ùr: The Future of our Past Rum Ragged & Allan Dewar Gangspil Membertou Trade and Convention St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Centre, Membertou • 7:30 pm • $40/35 Sydney Mines • 7:30 pm • $30 Greenwood United Church, Baddeck • 7:30 pm • $30 Folk music, and the culture it As Artist in Residence in 2013, influences and is inspired by, is really Northside fiddler, piano player and Gangspil revels in the tradition 51 what’s at the heart of a festival like step-dancer Kimberley Fraser explored of Danish folk music, from wild Celtic Colours and tonight’s show how strings can be used more fully polkas and jigs to lyrical waltzes, gets to the soul of that. The folk song in both rhythm and accompaniment fiery reels and happy hopsas. With a tradition holds a very important place roles. In today’s concert, Kimberley and repertoire that includes dance tunes in the culture of a people. Kate Rusby piano player and dancer Mac Morin put from the famous Island of Fanø and is unapologetically a folk-singer. their considerable melodic talents on long-forgotten songs, this duo is Once described as “a superstar of the display. They don’t often get to play undeniably attached to the traditional acoustic scene”, she is praised for together, so this is a real treat. It’s also music of their homeland, giving moving folk forward while remaining a rare occasion for Dave MacIsaac and them much in common with the true to tradition. Fiddler Dwayne Côté Allan MacDonald to share some tunes. other performers on stage tonight. grew up surrounded by the traditional Between the two of them, the guitar For more than twenty years, Gaelic music of Cape Breton, absorbing it and fiddle player and the Scottish piper singer Mary Jane Lamond and fiddle/ through his family and community. and Gaelic singer probably know every piano-player and step-dancer Wendy A virtuosic player in any variety of melody from either side of the Atlantic MacIsaac have explored the sounds genres, Dwayne more than capably going back at least a few hundred of Gaelic song and dance music in holds down the fiddle component of years. It’s exciting just to think about Cape Breton. Old songs find new life this concert. Celtic Colours has always what they will come up with. Melodies in Mary Jane’s voice while Wendy, tried to give the stage over to our keep the tunes alive, but melodies and multi-instrumental bandmates next generation to give them a voice, also make the songs; old ballads and Cathy Porter and Matt MacIsaac, and provide an audience to hear that shanties, traditional and contemporary provide just the right accompaniment voice. Ùr is the very epitome of this. folk songs all rely on the memorable and arrangements to bring it into the This is the third year this hand-picked melody, for survival and popularity. now, without ever losing sight of the group of students from the Royal Newfoundland’s Rum Ragged know tradition behind the music. And there Conservatoire has played the Festival. that well in the songs they sing, with are few players on the Island today It’s been a new batch of players each masterfully played accordion, bouzouki, more influenced by this music and year and being involved with Ùr has and banjo running through songs and tradition than fiddler Shelly Campbell acted as a springboard for many of tunes alike. and piano-player Allan Dewar. these talented young performers. hosted by hosted by St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church Greenwood United Church Council 19 & over; photo ID required CULTURAL EXPERIENCES

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BUDDY MACMASTER FIDDLE CAMP contact: Joeleen Larade drawing inks and watercolour paints Celtic Music Interpretive Centre, 902-224-1406 / 902-371-0189 from natural dyes and pigments with Judique [email protected] Vancouver-based textile artist Caitlin hosted by Le Conseil des arts de Chéticamp ffrench. 9:00 am - 3:00 pm contact: Tamsin Sloots • 902-539-7491 $150/day or $500/week TOUS ENSEMBLE: DANSEZ [email protected] This is a hands-on workshop for SA CULTURE / ALL JOIN HANDS hosted by Cape Breton Centre for Craft intermediate and advanced players who Centre de la Mi-Carême, and Design wish to further their skills and learn the Grand Étang Harbour ELIZABETH VINCENT EXHIBIT: Cape Breton style of playing. Today’s 10:00 am - 12:00 pm • $10 instructors are Troy MacGillivray and HOMELANDS Caitlin Warbelow. Learn the history of Acadian group J. Franklin Wright Gallery, contact: Allan Dewar • 902-787-2708 dance traditions from Barbara LeBlanc Port Hawkesbury [email protected] and then enjoy dancing to live music. 10:00 am - 8:00 pm • free hosted by Celtic Music Interpretive Centre contact: 902-224-1016 [email protected] Elizabeth Vincent has worked and lived INTERACTIVE EXHIBIT hosted by Société Mi-Carême in both England and Canada, presently ROOM TOUR in Nova Scotia. Working in a variety of 7TH ANNUAL QUILT SHOW Celtic Music Interpretive media, her subjects include landscape, AND SALE Centre, Judique portrait and still life studies. Belle Côte Community Centre, contact: Paula Davis 9:00 am - 5:00 pm • $6 Belle Côte 902-625-7891 • [email protected] hosted by J. Franklin Wright Gallery Take a journey through the history of 10:00 am - 4:00 pm • donation Cape Breton music, try your hand at playing the fiddle, learn to step dance, A delightful show of traditional and YOUNGSTERS STORY SERIES:

or learn some Gaelic words and phrases contemporary quilts, smaller wall SYDNEY hangings and clothing, much of which McConnell Library, Sydney 52 at your own pace. will be for sale. Demonstrations of contact: Celtic Music Interpretive Centre 10:30 am - 11:15 am • free 902-787-2708 • [email protected] quilting techniques will be given. contact: Bea Tilsley • 902-258-3048 hosted by Celtic Music Interpretive Centre Cape Breton authors and illustrators [email protected] share their work in this interactive GUIDED HIKE IN THE hosted by Celtic Quilt Guild workshop for the kids. NATIONAL PARK: MICA HILL contact: Tara • 902-562-3279 PARADOXICAL: ART & CRAFT Mica Hill Trailhead, South Harbour [email protected] BY WELDON BONA hosted by Cape Breton Regional Library 10:00 am • free with park pass Cape Breton Centre for Craft and Design, Sydney Join National Park staff for a guided YOUNGSTERS STORY SERIES: BADDECK hike of Mica Hill, a gradual climb 10:00 am - 4:00 pm • free through Acadian and boreal forest to Baddeck Library, Baddeck Weldon was an artist, graphic designer, taiga barrens with panoramic views of 10:30 am - 11:15 am • free the highland plateau. 3-4 hour, 7.9 km communicator, and master gardener. return, 260-410 meter elevation. This exhibition contrasts his whimsical Cape Breton authors and illustrators hooked rugs and abstract ink drawings contact: 902-224-2306 share their work in this interactive that depict surreal landscapes, people, hosted by Cape Breton Highlands National workshop for the kids. Park and creatures. contact: Baddeck Library • 902-295 2055 contact: Holley Grant • 902-270-7491 [email protected] [email protected] hosted by Cape Breton Regional Library PLAY SPOONS WITH US hosted by Cape Breton Centre for La Place des arts Père Anselme Craft and Design Chiasson, Chéticamp YOUNGSTERS STORY SERIES: NORTHSIDE 10:00 am / 1:00 pm • $15 COLOURING FROM NATURE Wilfred Oram Centennial Library, Cape Breton Centre for Craft and Choose between 10-11am or 1-2pm. North Sydney Design, Sydney Participants of all ages will learn the 10:30 am - 11:15 am • free history of spoon playing, how the 10:00 am - 4:00 pm Cape Breton authors and illustrators spoons are made, and how to play $115 includes materials them. share their work in this interactive Learn how to make charcoal, botanical workshop for the kids. CULTURAL EXPERIENCES CULTURAL EXPERIENCES

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contact: Wilfred Oram Centennial Library UNDERGROUND TOUR CELTIC CONVERSATIONS SERIES 902-794-3272 • [email protected] OF A COAL MINE McConnell Library, Sydney hosted by Cape Breton Regional Library Cape Breton Miners’ Museum, 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm • free Glace Bay CULTURAL DEMONSTRATIONS Music and conversation from featured 11:00 am - 4:00 pm Colaisde na Gàidhlig / Festival artists provides insight into adult $16; youth $13 The Gaelic College, St. Ann’s their life and work. Brought to you by

10:30 am - 12:00 pm • $5 Call to book your 90 minute tour. You Eastlink. will be guided by a former coal miner contact: Tara • 902-562-3279 Get a first-hand look at the living into the mine where you’ll hear stories [email protected] traditions of the Nova Scotia Gaels with of his life. hosted by Cape Breton Regional Library our cultural demonstrations. contact: Mary Pat Mombourquette Bring your cameras! 902-849-4522 • [email protected] THE BELL SERIES contact: Gail Montgomery hosted by Cape Breton Miners’ Museum Alexander Graham Bell National 902-295-3411 • [email protected] Historic Site, Baddeck hosted by Colaisde na Gàidhlig / TRANSITIONS 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm • free with park pass The Gaelic College Inverness County Centre for the Arts, Inverness An interactive, performance-based CBC MAINSTREET LIVE presentation from featured Festival 11:00 am - 5:00 pm • free Knox Presbyterian Church, Baddeck artists as they share conversations 10:30 am - 12:30 pm • free A contemporary textile exhibition by about their life and work. the members of the Studio Art Quilt contact: Madeline Harvey Join us for a live-to-tape broadcast of Associates of the Atlantic Region. 902-295-2069 • [email protected] CBC Radio One program Mainstreet, contact: Elizabeth Whalley • 902-258-2533 hosted by Parks Canada’s Alexander where host Wendy Bergfeldt interviews [email protected] Graham Bell National Historic Site Festival artists and welcomes hosted by Inverness County Centre for the Arts performances. AM BREACAN BÒIDHEACH 53 contact: Wendy Bergfeldt LUNCHEON ON THE MIRA FÀSANTA: MARY’S BONNY 902-563-4151 • [email protected] Mira Seniors & Pensioners Centre, PLAID - NATURAL DYE WORKSHOP hosted by CBC Cape Breton Marion Bridge Baile nan Gàidheal / Highland Village, Iona TH 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm • $10 8 ANNUAL ABORIGINAL ART & CULTURE FESTIVAL 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm • $25 Enjoy a luncheon right alongside the Wagmatcook Culture and Heritage Mira River. Join us in a living history museum to Centre, Wagmatcook First Nation contact: Jean MacQueen • 902-737-5306 learn about natural dyes and techniques 10:30 am - 2:00 pm • free [email protected] used in the 19th century to dye wool, hosted by Mira Seniors and Pensioners and dip a few skeins of your own. A special showcase of Aboriginal Centre Pre-registration required. art, cultural demonstrations, and contact: Baile nan Gàidheal / Highland presentations from culture bearers. Village 902-725-2272 AUTUMN TREASURES - contact: Robert Bernard • 902-295-2999 ART SHOW AND SALE FEATURING hosted by Baile nan Gàidheal / [email protected] LOCAL ARTISTS Highland Village hosted by Wagmatcook Culture Grand Lake Road Fire Hall, Sydney & Heritage Centre CAPE BRETON OATCAKE 12:00 pm - 8:00 pm • $3 MAKING DEMONSTRATION LUNCH CEILIDH An exhibition and sale of paintings and Scotsville School of Crafts, Scotsville Celtic Music Interpretive fine art featuring local artists. 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm • $25 Centre, Judique contact: Mora Smith 902-539-3172 One of the best Cape Breton oatcake 11:00 am – 2:45 pm • $6; menu pricing [email protected] hosted by Rt. Hon. Vincent Massey makers around Lake Ainslie will Enjoy lunch in a fun atmosphere Chapter IODE demonstrate the whole process. Enjoy featuring local food and drinks and live them fresh from the oven with tea, and music with Troy MacGillivray, Caitlin you will receive a copy of her recipe. Warbelow and friends. contact: Verna MacMillan • 902-258-2278 contact: Celtic Music Interpretive Centre infoscotsvilleschoolofcrafts.ca 902-787-2708 • [email protected] hosted by Lake Ainslie Weavers hosted by Celtic Music Interpretive Centre & Craft Guild CULTURAL EXPERIENCES

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TRAD JAM SESSION BOAT TOUR, TALES AND TEA OPEN MIC JAM SESSION Colaisde na Gàidhlig / ON PORT HOOD ISLAND Bras d’Or Yacht Club, Baddeck The Gaelic College, St. Ann’s Murphy’s Pond, Port Hood 2:00 pm - 6:00 pm • donation 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm • free 2:00 pm • $50 Bring your instrument and join us for Come jam with us! Bring your This guided tour will take you by boat our daily Open Mic Jam, hosted by instruments, voice, dancing shoes, or to visit scenic Port Hood Island. When Englishtown’s own Michael Cavanaugh. just yourself and enjoy some traditional you arrive you’ll be lead to the Jubilee contact: Lavonne Grant • 902-295-2107 tunes. Bar services will be available. church for stories and tea. Please [email protected] contact: Margie Beaton register in advance. hosted by Bras d’Or Yacht Club 902-295-3411 • [email protected] contact: Susan Mallette • 902-787-2930 hosted by Colaisde na Gàidhlig / hosted by Chestico Museum TUNES & TALK WITH CAITLIN The Gaelic College & Historical Society WARBELOW & FRIENDS Celtic Music Interpretive Centre, BAILE NAN GÀIDHEAL Judique WEAVING DEMONSTRATION Scotsville School of Crafts, Scotsville MILLING FROLIC 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm • $5 Baile nan Gàidheal / 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm • donation Highland Village, Iona Caitlin, an accomplished Irish fiddler who teaches at New York’s Irish Arts Come and try your hand at one of the 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm Center, will perform with fiddler/ oldest surviving crafts in the world. museum charges apply Knowledgable hand-weavers lead you pianist Troy MacGillivray, chat about through this demonstration. Join us for a traditional milling frolic in Irish music and answer audience contact: Verna MacMillan • 902-258-2278 a period setting at the Highland Village. questions. [email protected] Refreshments served. contact: Celtic Music Interpretive Centre hosted by Lake Ainslie Weavers contact: Baile nan Gàidheal / 902-787-2708 • [email protected] & Craft Guild Highland Village • 902-725-2272 hosted by Celtic Music Interpretive Centre 54 hosted by Baile nan Gàidheal / Highland Village STUDIO ART QUILT ASSOCIATES’ LAKESIDE IMPRESSIONS ART & CRAFT EXHIBIT ARTISTS TALK Scotsville School of Crafts, Scotsville ARTIST TALK & DEMONSTRATION Inverness County Centre for the Arts, WITH NORMAN KENNEDY Inverness 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm • donation Cape Breton Centre for Craft and 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm • free A unique showcase of visual art and Design, Sydney An informal artists talk from members crafts from local area artists and 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm • free artisans for your viewing pleasure. of the Studio Art Quilt Associates of the contact: Verna MacMillan • 902-258-2278 Master weaver Norman Kennedy shares Atlantic Region, welcoming audience [email protected] stories of his life and work in this questions. hosted by Lake Ainslie Weavers demonstration and talk. contact: Elizabeth Whalley • 902-258-2533 & Craft Guild contact: Holley Grant • 902-270-7491 [email protected] [email protected] hosted by Inverness County Centre hosted by Cape Breton Centre for Craft for the Arts WATERCOLOUR PAINTING Scotsville School of Crafts, Scotsville and Design POT LUCK SUPPER 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm TRADITIONAL SQUARE DANCE Cranton Crossroads Community $30 includes materials AND GAELIC WORKSHOP Centre, Margaree Center Local artist Barrie Fraser leads this South West Margaree (St. Joseph’s 5:00 pm workshop in watercolours with step- Parish) Hall, South West Margaree adult $10 adults; 12 & under $5 by-step instruction. Will be held En 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm • donation Plein Air (outdoors), weather permitting. At this annual community potluck contact: Verna MacMillan • 902-258-2278 In this interactive workshop, learn supper you can choose from a selection [email protected] common Gaelic phrases as well as the of salads, casseroles, meatballs, ham, hosted by Lake Ainslie Weavers basic steps of a traditional Inverness various desserts, and tea or coffee. & Craft Guild county square set. All ages are welcome. contact: Arlene Ingraham • 902-248-2873 contact: Mary MacNeil • 902-248-2317 [email protected] [email protected] hosted by Cranton Crossroads hosted by St. Joseph’s Parish Hall Community Centre Committee CULTURAL EXPERIENCES CULTURAL EXPERIENCES

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ROAST BEEF DINNER AT THE ARTS CENTRE Inverness County Centre for the Arts, Inverness

5:00 pm • $20 A traditional roast beef dinner with seasonal local vegetables, tea or coffee, and dessert. contact: Elizabeth Whalley • 902-258-2533 [email protected] hosted by Inverness County Centre for the Arts TUNES IN PIPERS’ CEILIDH: RICHMOND SQUARE DANCE Royal Canadian Legion Branch 47, THE AFTERNOON A NOD TO Grande Anse J.P. Cormier & Dave Gunning SANDY BOYD 9:00 pm – 12:00 am • $5 Rum Ragged Allan MacDonald A traditional square dance for those Gangspil Ryan J. MacNeil 19 and over with live music right in Richmond County. Highland Arts Theatre, & Trevor Kellock contact: Linda Buchanan 902-345-2290 / Sydney • 2:00 pm • $40/30 & Boyd MacNeil 902-345-2610 • [email protected] Kevin Dugas hosted by Royal Canadian Legion Branch 47 Dave Gunning and J.P. Cormier have & Keith MacDonald Grand Anse been good buddies and musical Joe MacMaster • Mac Morin compadres since the mid-1990s 55 BOISDALE ROUND AND when J.P. returned from Nashville Dave MacIsaac SQUARE DANCE and Dave was looking for a fiddler to Boisdale Volunteer Fire Department, fill in at the last minute for a show. Colaisde na Gàidhlig / The Gaelic Boisdale Performing, touring and recording College, St. Ann’s • 2:00 pm • $35 together whenever they could over 9:00 pm - 12:00 am • $10 the years, they finally formalized the An influential figure on Cape Breton’s Adult square dance for those 19 and partnership last summer with the piping culture, Sandy Boyd arrived over with live music from Michael release of their first album together. here in the 1940s from Scotland where Hall, Donna Marie DeWolfe and Hilda The album reflects what they do best he was born into a piping family. Chiasson. on stage—collaborating on new songs, A successful competition piper, he contact: Fred McCracken 902-871-2655 / rearranging old folk standards, and played a different style than the old- 902-577-7728 • [email protected] having some laughs in the process. time pipers of Cape Breton, but his hosted by Boisdale Volunteer Fire This is not unfamiliar territory for Rum musicianship won their admiration. Department Ragged, whose Newfoundland heritage He would travel around, playing practically revolves around singing everywhere he could, staying with SOUTH WEST traditional songs and writing new families in exchange for pipe lessons, MARGAREE DANCE ones, playing tunes, and having a good and in the process inspired generations South West Margaree time while they’re at it. Danish folk of pipers around Inverness County. (St. Joseph’s Parish) Hall, duo Gangspil, share a love for folk and Known to play all night at house South West Margaree dance music, collecting and performing parties, tapes of his playing are still old dance tunes and songs from every listened to today. Sandy taught and 9:30 pm - 1:00 am • $8 corner of their Scandinavian home. was a judge at the Gaelic College in the Adult square dance with live music for Get ready for an entertaining afternoon 1950s, so it’s nice to be able to give a those 19 and over. of songs, tunes and plenty of laughs at nod to him with the fine collection of contact: Lawrence MacLellan the Highland Arts Theatre in Sydney on players here this afternoon. 902-248-2180 this last day of the Festival. hosted by [email protected] Colaisde na Gàidhlig / The Gaelic College hosted by St. Joseph’s Parish Hall Committee NearbyNearby Meal: Meals: Page Roast 48 Beef Supper in Sydney & Corned Beef and Cabbage Nearby Meal: North Shore Crab Dinner Page 59 Dinner Page 59 CONCERTS

SATURDAY OCTOBER 13

THE Presented by GRAND FINALE Kate Rusby Mary Jane Lamond & Wendy MacIsaac Phil Cunningham Change of Step

CENTRE 200, SYDNEY 7:30 pm • $60/50/40/25

Tonight we wrap up Celtic Colours for another year, but not before one more night of music and dance featuring some of the best. Celebrated 56 English folk singer-songwriter Kate Rusby has, over the past 25 years, established herself as one of the finest interpreters of traditional folk songs and an emotive songwriter. Her expressive singing, engaging wit and the intuitive support of her top-shelf band are sure to leave a lasting impression on everyone in the room. Mary Jane Lamond and Wendy MacIsaac bring the Gaelic song and dance-influenced tune traditions together, with mesmerizing Gaelic vocals and outstanding musicianship. Scottish accordionist and composer Phil Cunningham is at the Festival this year playing with students from the Royal Conservatoire in the outstanding group Ùr. But we thought his superb playing and irrepressible sense of humour would fit the bill for this closing concert as well. And of course we can’t have a Celtic Colours Grand Finale Concert without some dancing so get ready for Change of Step.

Nearby Meals: Roast Beef Supper in Sydney & Corned Beef and Cabbage Dinner Page 59 CONCERTS CULTURAL EXPERIENCES

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CAPE BRETON TREASURES OF THE MARGAREE dye and print fabrics with Vancouver- FARMERS’ MARKET CRAFT FAIR based textile artist Caitlin ffrench. Cape Breton Farmers’ Market, Margaree Forks Fire Hall, Margaree contact: Tamsin Sloots • 902-539-7491 Sydney Forks [email protected] hosted by Cape Breton Centre for Craft 8:30 am - 1:00 pm • free 10:00 am - 2:00 pm • $2 and Design A wide variety of local produce, honey, A variety of crafts and gifts created meats, prepared foods, and artisanal by Margaree’s talented artisans and SYDNEY WEAVERS’ GUILD wares can be found at this local craftspeople. Lovely jewelry, knit and WEAVING DEMONSTRATION community market. hand-sewn items, woodworking, glass AND TEA AND SALE hosted by Cape Breton Farmers’ Market work and many other treasures from Cape Breton Centre for Craft and traditional to contemporary. Design, Sydney

PANCAKE AND SAUSAGE contact: Mary MacNeil • 902-248-2317 10:00 am - 4:00 pm • free BREAKFAST [email protected] Brooks Haven Seniors’ Recreation hosted by Margaree Area Development You are invited to a demonstration, Centre, Prime Brook Association display and sale of the fine heritage craft of weaving. You may even give our 9:00 am - 11:00 am • $6 TH looms a try. 7 ANNUAL QUILT SHOW Start your day off with pancakes, AND SALE contact: Holley Grant • 902-270-7491 sausages, and tea or coffee. Belle Côte Community Centre, [email protected] contact: Laurie MacCuish 902-564-8073 • Belle Côte hosted by Cape Breton Centre for Craft [email protected] and Design 10:00 am - 4:00 pm • donation or Lisa Côté • 902-371-8948 [email protected] A delightful show of traditional and ELIZABETH VINCENT EXHIBIT: HOMELANDS hosted by Brooks Haven Seniors’ contemporary quilts, smaller wall Recreation Centre hangings and clothing, much of which J. Franklin Wright Gallery at Port Hawkesbury Civic Centre, Port will be for sale. Demonstrations of 57 Hawkesbury PLAY SPOONS WITH US quilting techniques will be given.

La Place des arts Père Anselme contact: Bea Tilsley • 902-258-3048 10:00 am - 8:00 pm • free Chiasson, Chéticamp [email protected] hosted by Celtic Quilt Guild Elizabeth Vincent has worked and lived 10:00 am / 1:00pm • $15 in both England and Canada, presently in Nova Scotia. Working in a variety of Choose between 10-11am or 1-2pm. PARADOXICAL: ART & CRAFT Participants of all ages will learn the BY WELDON BONA media, her subjects include landscape, history of spoon playing, how the Cape Breton Centre for Craft and portrait and still life studies. spoons are made, and how to play them Design, Sydney contact: Paula Davis 902-625-7891 • [email protected] contact Joeleen Larade : 10:00 am - 4:00 pm • free 902-224-1406 / 902-371-0189 hosted by J. Franklin Wright Gallery [email protected] Weldon was an artist, graphic designer, YOUNGSTERS STORY SERIES: hosted by Le Conseil des arts de Chéticamp communicator, and master gardener. This exhibition contrasts his whimsical SYDNEY TURKEY LEG FUN RUN hooked rugs and abstract ink drawings McConnell Library, Sydney that depict surreal landscapes, people, Ross Ferry Fire Hall, 10:30 am - 11:15 am • free Boularderie and creatures. contact: Holley Grant • 902-270-7491 Cape Breton authors and illustrators 10:00 am • $15 [email protected] share their work in this interactive A fun 10K chip-timed run along a quiet hosted by Cape Breton Centre for Craft workshop for the kids. rural road. and Design contact: Tara • 902-562-3279 contact: Eliot Frosst • 902-674-0936 [email protected] hosted by Cape Breton Regional Library [email protected] ECOPRINTING hosted by Ross Ferry Volunteer Fire Cape Breton Centre for Craft and Department Fun Runs Design, Sydney

10:00 am - 4:00 pm $115 includes materials Using autumn leaves and mineral mordants, learn how to prepare, CULTURAL EXPERIENCES

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YOUNGSTERS STORY SERIES: TRANSITIONS A GIANT MAN FROM

BADDECK Inverness County Centre for the A TINY TOWN Baddeck Library, Baddeck Arts, Inverness Inverness County Centre for the Arts, Inverness 10:30 am - 11:15 am • free 11:00 am - 5:00 pm • free 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm • donation Cape Breton authors and illustrators A contemporary textile exhibition by share their work in this interactive the members of the Studio Art Quilt Join us for the launch of Tom Ryan’s workshop for the kids. Associates of the Atlantic Region new children’s book, which tells contact: Baddeck Library • 902-295 2055 contact: Elizabeth Whalley • 902-258-2533 the story of Giant Angus MacAskill. [email protected] [email protected] contact: Elizabeth Whalley • 902-258-2533 hosted by Cape Breton Regional Library hosted by Inverness County Centre [email protected] for the Arts hosted by Inverness County Centre YOUNGSTERS STORY SERIES: for the Arts

NORTHSIDE INTERACTIVE EXHIBIT Wilfred Oram Centennial Library, ROOM TOUR WEAVING DEMONSTRATION North Sydney Celtic Music Interpretive Centre, Scotsville School of Crafts, Judique Scotsville 10:30 am - 11:15 am • free 11:00 am - 5:00 pm • $6 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm • donation Cape Breton authors and illustrators share their work in this interactive Take a journey through the history of Come and try your hand at one of the workshop for the kids. Cape Breton music, try your hand at oldest surviving crafts in the world. contact: Wilfred Oram Centennial Library playing the fiddle, learn to step dance, Knowledgable hand-weavers lead you 902-794-3272 • [email protected] or learn some Gaelic words and phrases through this demonstration. hosted by Cape Breton Regional Library at your own pace. contact: Verna MacMillan • 902-258-2278 contact: Celtic Music Interpretive Centre [email protected] WEAVING DEMONSTRATION 902-787-2708 • [email protected] hosted by Lake Ainslie Weavers 58 Taigh an t-Sagairt hosted by Celtic Music Interpretive Centre & Craft Guild (The Fr. John Angus Rankin Cultural LUNCH ACADIAN ET MARCHÉ / Centre), Glendale LAKESIDE IMPRESSIONS ACADIAN LUNCH AND ART & CRAFT EXHIBIT 10:30 am - 12:30 pm • donation CRAFT MARKET Scotsville School of Crafts, Scotsville Visit the cultural centre for a La Picasse Centre Communautaire 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm • donation demonstration of weaving. Culturel, Petit-de-Grat contact Rachel MacGillivray : 11:30 am • $18 A unique showcase of visual art and 902-302-1734 • [email protected] crafts from local area artists and hosted by Glendale and Area Community This meal serves traditional Acadian artisans for your viewing pleasure. Cooperative foods, and includes dessert, and tea contact: Verna MacMillan • 902-258-2278 or coffee. While on site, browse the [email protected] STORYTELLING TOUR craft market featuring a variety of local hosted by Lake Ainslie Weavers AND MILLING FROLIC artisan vendors. & Craft Guild Baile nan Gàidheal / Highland Village, contact: Lynn Theriault • 902-226-0149 Iona [email protected] HIKE THE COXHEATH COLOURS AND CEILIDH 11:00 am - 1:00 pm • $25 LUNCH CEILIDH Coxheath Hills Wilderness Trail, Come join us for a special storytelling Celtic Music Interpretive Coxheath tour of the Highland Village. This Centre, Judique 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm • donation folklife experience will give you insight 11:30 am - 3:00 pm • $6; menu pricing into the lives and stories of Nova Scotia Musicians and naturalists are situated Gaels. Reservations required. Enjoy lunch in a fun atmosphere along a hillside nature trail and contact: Baile nan Gàidheal / Highland featuring local food and drinks and live storytellers will be in the cabin at the Village 902-725-2272 Cape Breton music with Hailee LeFort top, sharing stories. A ceilidh in the hosted by Baile nan Gàidheal / Highland and friends. hall, where you can purchase hot apple Village contact: Celtic Music Interpretive Centre cider, tea, oatcakes and biscuits rounds 902-787-2708 • [email protected] off the experience. hosted by Celtic Music Interpretive Centre contact: Lisa Patterson • 902-564-6352 [email protected] hosted by Coxheath Hills Wilderness Recreation Association CULTURAL EXPERIENCES CULTURAL EXPERIENCES

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FIBRE FARM VISIT ROAST BEEF SUPPER IN SYDNEY Mamie’s Alpacas, Glendale Royal Canadian Legion Branch 138, Ashby, Sydney 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm • donation 4:00 pm - 7:00 pm • $15 Visit an alpaca farm, meet the animals and learn all about alpaca wool. Enjoy a home-cooked roast beef dinner contact: Rachel MacGillivray with all the trimmings, dessert and tea 902-302-1734 • [email protected] or coffee. hosted by Glendale and Area Community contact: Donna McRury • 902-565-0660 Cooperative [email protected] or Tom Young 902-562-4994 • [email protected] OPEN MIC JAM SESSION hosted by Royal Canadian Legion, Bras d’Or Yacht Club, Baddeck Branch 138 Ashby 2:00 pm - 6:00 pm • donation CORNED BEEF AND CABBAGE Bring your instrument and join us for DINNER our daily Open Mic Jam, hosted by East Bay Legion, Howie Centre Englishtown’s own Michael Cavanaugh. contact: Lavonne Grant 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm • $15 902-295-2107 • [email protected] Enjoy a traditional corned beef and hosted by Bras d’Or Yacht Club cabbage dinner with dessert, and tea or coffee. CRAFTER’S MARKET contact: Sheri Trask • 902-595-0169 Brooks Haven Seniors’ Recreation [email protected] Centre, Prime Brook hosted by Royal Canadian Legion 3:00 pm - 6:00 pm • $5 Branch 151

Peruse a variety of hand-made art, LITTLE WHITE CHURCH embroidery, knitwear, and more from JAM SESSION local craftspeople. St. Stephen’s Jubilee United Church, contact: Lisa Côté • 902-371-8948 Port Hood [email protected] hosted by Brooks Haven Seniors’ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm • $5; free for players Recreation Centre Musicians and listeners are welcome to this community jam session. Bring your NORTH SHORE CRAB DINNER instrument. North Shore & District contact: Susan Campbell • 902-787-2842 Volunteer Fire Department, [email protected] Indian Brook hosted by St. Stephen’s-Jubilee United 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm • $30 Church Hall

Two portions of crab, harvested locally WEST MABOU FAMILY by fishermen from the area, served with SQUARE DANCE potato salad, coleslaw, dessert, fresh West Mabou Hall, West Mabou rolls, and tea or coffee. contact: David MacInnis • 902-929-2061 9:00 pm - 12:00 am • $8 per person; [email protected] 12 & under free (all children must be hosted by North Shore & District Volunteer accompanied by an adult) Fire Department West Mabou Square Dance is a well- established traditional square dance that features some of the Island’s finest musicians. All ages are welcome. contact: Derrick & Melody Cameron [email protected] hosted by West Mabou Hall ARTIST INDEX

Adrianne Chapman • Page 17 David Power & Triona Marshall • Pages 22, 26, 32, 39 Lawrence Cameron • Page 50

Alex Kusturok • Pages 18, 26 Dawn & Margie Beaton • Page 26 Leanne Aucoin • Page 22

Allan Dewar • Pages 17, 51 Delores Boudreau • Page 33 Les Zorvenants • Page 32

Allan MacDonald • Pages 15, 37, 51, 55 Denny Family Dancers • Page 26 Lewis MacKinnon • Pages 17, 50

Allie Bennett • Page 18 Donna Marie DeWolfe • Pages 44, 55 Liam Holden • Pages 28, 44

Andrea Beaton • Pages 22, 27, 38, 46, 47 Donnie Campbell & Jinks O’Neill • Page 17 Lisa Cameron & Vern MacDougall • Page 45

Beòlach • Page 27 Doris Mason • Page 18 Mac Morin • Pages 22, 51, 55

Betty Lou Beaton • Page 32 Doug MacPhee • Page 32 MacMaster Grandchildren • Page 32

Blanche Sophocleous • Page 32 Douglas Cameron • Page 50 Mairi MacInnes • Pages 15, 17, 23

Blazin’ Fiddles • Pages 15, 17, 23 Dwayne Côté • Pages 29, 35, 39, 47, 51 Mairi Rankin • Pages 18, 33, 34, 37, 44

Boyd MacNeil • Page 55 Eddy Poirier • Page 43 Margaret Bennett & Norman Kennedy Pages 33, 37, 44, 50 Breabach • Pages 23, 27, 32 Edwina Guickian • Pages 33, 38, 44 Marilyn MacDonald-MacKinnon • Page 18 Breanndán Ó Beaglaoich • Pages 28, 44, 50 Ellen MacPhee • Pages 18, 22 Mario Colosimo • Page 50 Brenda Stubbert • Pages 18, 45 Eric Wright • Pages 33, 37, 44 Mary Beth Carty • Page 23 Brent Aucoin • Page 22 Fiona MacGillivray • Pages 18, 23 Mary Frances & Michael Leahy • Page 26 Brian MacDonald • Page 38 Gabrielle MacLellan & Tom Daniels • Page 50 Mary Jane Lamond • Pages 28, 37, 44, 51, 56 Brighde Chaimbeul • Pages 33, 39, 45 Gangspil • Pages 45, 51, 55 Mary Jane Lamond & Wendy MacIsaac Buddy MacDonald • Pages 14, 23 Gerard Beaton • Page 22 Pages 51, 56 60 • Page 22 • Pages 37, 50 Cailean MacLean Gervais Cormier Mary Janet MacDonald • Page 32 • Pages 45, 50 • Pages 21, 22 Calvin Vollrath Glenn Graham Matt MacIsaac • Page 22 • Page 45 • Pages 21, 22, 58 Cape Breton Chorale Hailee LeFort Maureen Fraser • Page 16 • Page 38 • Page 32 Cape Breton Fiddlers’ Association Harvey Beaton Maxim Cormier • Pages 37, 50 • Page 23 • Pages 23, 26, 38, 55 Cape Breton University Pipers Hilda Chiasson Maybelle Chisholm McQueen • Pages 22, 38 • Pages 17, 23 • Pages 18, 23 Cathy Ann MacPhee Howie MacDonald Melody & Derrick Cameron • Pages 34, 38 • Page 56 • Pages 33, 39, 43, 50, 55 Change of Step J.P. Cormier Michael & Tracy Cavanaugh • Page 37 • Pages 18, 23 • Page 17 Còig Jackie Dunn MacIsaac Miller | MacDonald | Cormier Còisir an Eilein • Page 37 Jason MacDonald • Page 51 Pages 16, 27

Colin Grant • Page 22 Joanne MacIntyre & Sons • Page 18, 37 Natalie MacMaster • Page 15

Colin Watson • Page 37 Joe MacMaster • Pages 26, 55 Neil Beaton • Pages 17, 26

Conchúbhair Ó Beaglaoich • Pages 28, 44 Joël Chiasson • Page 44 Nicole LeBlanc • Page 33

Cy • Pages 32, 38, 44, 50 Joella Foulds • Page 18 Nipper MacLeod • Page 22

Cyril MacPhee • Pages 16, 45 Karen Matheson & Donald Shaw • Page 17 Patrick Gillis • Page 22

Dan MacDonald • Pages 32, 37 Kate Rusby • Pages 51, 56 Paul Cranford • Page 50

Danelle & Céline Doucet • Page 50 Kenneth MacKenzie • Pages 28, 44 Paul MacDonald • Pages 15, 23, 37

Darrell Keigan • Page 18 Kimberley Fraser • Pages 18, 51 Pellerin Brothers • Page 22

Darren McMullen • Page 43 Kinnon Beaton • Page 32 Phil Cunningham • Page 56

Dave Gunning • Pages 50, 55 Kolten MacDonell • Pages 26, 45 Pretty Archie • Page 27

Dave MacIsaac • Pages 44, 51, 55 La Swing du Suête • Page 22 Ray Legere • Pages 33, 39, 43, 49 ARTIST INDEX ARTIST INDEX

Richard Poulette & The Relatives Stephanie MacDonald • Page 23 Page 26 Stephen & Lewis MacLennan • Page 50 Rita Rankin & Joanne MacIntyre • Page 18 Search for your Susan MacLean • Page 23 Rodney MacDonald • Page 22 favourite artists Teho • Pages 16, 27, 32 Roger Stone • Pages 33, 39 The Campbell Sisters • Page 27 in a snap, or tap Rona Lightfoot • Pages 15, 17, 23 The MacNeil Sisters • Page 26 Our website is mobile friendly Ronald Bourgeois • Page 50 celtic-colours.com The Men of the Deeps • Page 39 Rosie MacKenzie • Pages 18, 44, 50 The Savoy Family Cajun Band • Pages 27, 32, 38 Ross Ainslie • Pages 33, 39, 45 The Young’uns • Pages 27, 33, 38 Rum Ragged • Pages 44, 51, 55 Tracey Dares MacNeil • Page 26 Rura • Pages 18, 23, 27 Trevor Kellock • Page 55 Ryan J. MacNeil • Page 55 Troy MacGillivray • Pages 18, 28, 44, 52, 53, 54 Sarah MacInnis • Pages 23, 26 Ùr: The Future of our Past • Pages 37, 45, 51 Scott Macmillan • Page 22 Véronique Plasse • Pages 22, 27, 38 Shawn MacDonald • Page 32 Warner Sisters • Page 50 Shelly Campbell • Pages 16, 17, 28, 29, 51 Ye Vagabonds • Pages 33, 39, 45, 50 Socks in the Frying Pan Pages 22, 33, 38, 44

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Alexander Graham Bell National Cape North Fire Hall George’s River Firehall Historic Site • 559 Chebucto St., Baddeck 29428 Cabot Trail, Cape North 1208 George’s River Rd., George’s River An Drochaid: Mabou Gaelic & Celtic Music Interpretive Centre Glencoe Mills Hall Historical Society 5471 NS Highway 19, Judique 612 Glencoe Rd., Glencoe Mills 11513 Ceilidh Trail, Mabou Centre 200 Glencoe Station Hall Arduaine Restaurant at Keltic Lodge 481 George St., Sydney 1536 Mabou Rd., Port Hood 383 Keltic Inn Rd., Ingonish Centre de la Mi-Carême Goat Island Trail Aspy Trailhead 51 Old Cabot Trail Rd., Grand Étang Eskasoni Highway, Eskasoni Cape Breton Highlands National Park, Big Intervale – Cape North, Cabot Trail Chapel Island Wharf Grand Lake Road Fire Hall 632 Sitmuk Awti, Potlotek 850 Grand Lake Rd., Sydney Baddeck Library 520 Chebucto St., Baddeck Christmas Island Fire Hall Grandona Royal Canadian Legion 8539 NS Highway 223, Christmas Island Branch 124 • 4237 NS-223, Iona Baddeck Volunteer Fire Department 526 Chebucto St., Baddeck Colaisde na Gàidhlig / The Gaelic Greenwood United Church College • 51779 Cabot Trail, St. Ann’s 98 Twining St., Baddeck Baile nan Gàidheal / Highland Village 4119 Highway 223, Iona Corney Brook Trail Happy Clam Café 18573 Cabot Trail, Cheticamp 15559 Cabot Trail, Chéticamp Bay St. Lawrence Community Centre 3160 Bay St. Lawrence Rd., Coxheath Hills Wilderness Trail Harbour Restaurant and Bar Bay St. Lawrence Intersection of Coxheath Rd. & 15299 Cabot Trail, Chéticamp Blacketts Lake Rd., Coxheath Belle Côte Community Centre Highland Arts Theatre 10615 Cabot Trail, Belle Côte Cranton Crossroads Community Centre 40 Bentinck St., Sydney 206 Cranton Cross Rd., Margaree Center Big Pond Community Centre / Fire Hall Holy Trinity Anglican Church Hall 7193 NS Highway 4, Big Pond Creignish Recreation Centre 329 Reeves St., Port Hawkesbury 2123 Highway 19, Creignish Boisdale Volunteer Fire Department Ingonish Fire Hall and Community 3810 Grand Narrows Highway, Boisdale Customs House Artisan Incubator Centre • 35936 Cabot Trail, Ingonish 402 Granville St., Port Hawkesbury 64 Boularderie School Inverary Resort - MacAulay Conference 12065 Kempt Head Rd., Boularderie East D’Escousse Civic Improvement Hall Centre • 368 Shore Rd., Baddeck 3276 Highway 320, D’Escousse Bras d’Or Lakes Inn Inverness County Centre for the Arts 10095 Grenville St., St. Peter’s Dalbrae Academy 16080 Highway 19, Inverness 11156 Highway 19, Mabou Bras d’Or Yacht Club Inverness Education Centre / Academy 1 Jones St., Baddeck Doryman Pub & Grill 59 Veterans Memorial Court, Inverness 15528 Cabot Trail, Cheticamp Breton Brewing Iona Port 364 Keltic Dr., Coxheath Drs. Coady & Tompkins Memorial 2583 St. Columba Rd., Iona Library • 7972 Cabot Trail, Margaree Forks Brook Village Hall J. Franklin Wright Gallery at Port 3447 NS-252, Brook Village East Bay Legion Hawkesbury Civic Centre 2317 Kings Rd., Howie Centre 606 Reeves St., Port Hawkesbury Brooks Haven Seniors’ Recreation Centre Englishtown Community Hall Joan Harriss Cruise Pavilion 1748 Gabarus Highway, Prime Brook 971 NS Highway 312, Englishtown 60 Esplanade, Sydney Calvin Memorial Hall Every Woman’s Centre Judique Community Centre 3 Upper Warren St., Louisbourg 21 Trinity Ave., Sydney 5473 Highway 19, Judique Calvin United Church Farquarson Memorial Church Keltic Lodge 420 Hudson St., New Waterford 1948 Cabot Trail, Middle River 383 Keltic Inn Rd., Ingonish Cape Breton Centre for Craft and Fisheries Building Knox Presbyterian Church Design • 322 Charlotte St., Sydney 4115 Shore Rd., Eskasoni 39 Grant St., Baddeck

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