Route 19 Brewing
Region: Canada’s Musical Coast
Community: Inverness
We welcome all, with friendly smiles and open hearts, to our Cape Breton Island. With a fierce pride for our beautiful home, we invite all w...
North America’s first distiller of single malt whisky. Guided on-site distillery tours are available daily from mid-May to late October (please check season open and close dates in these months). No appointment necessary. Tours run 9:00 am-5:00 pm daily, leaving on the hour and are approximately 20 minutes long with an opportunity to sample product at the end of a tour.
You’ll also find an inn, pub, dining room and gift shop surround a courtyard with a running brook. Enjoy the scenic grounds and be sure to take in one of the free daily ceilidhs. Mountainside chalets are also available.
Bus tours and groups welcome (by appointment).
Region: Canada’s Musical Coast
Community: Inverness
We welcome all, with friendly smiles and open hearts, to our Cape Breton Island. With a fierce pride for our beautiful home, we invite all w...
Region: Canada’s Musical Coast
Community: Inverness
A municipal beach site in town of Inverness, Inverness Beach is the perfect family beach with warm and shallow waters and beautiful, soft sa...
Region: Canada’s Musical Coast
Community: Inverness
The definition of Panorama is an unbroken view of an entire surrounding area, and Cabot Links’ premier restaurant lives up to its name wit...
Regions: Cabot Trail, Canada’s Musical Coast
Community: Margaree Harbour
Feel the adrenaline rush of battling some of the biggest game in the Atlantic Ocean—the giant Bluefin Tuna. Join Captain Andrew Rankin, a ...
Region: Canada’s Musical Coast
Community: Mabou
A religious shrine enclosed in a miniature pioneer church, dedicated to Our Lady of Seven Sorrows and the pioneers of the Mabou area. ...
Region: Canada’s Musical Coast
Community: Port Hood
Port Hood Beach is sandy and well protected by Port Hood Island and a rock breakwater. The water is calm and very shallow in places due to s...
Enjoy snowmobiling across the Cabot Trail or near the Bras d'Or Lake. Meet up with old friends or meet new ones along the Great Trail. Pull up next to restaurants with delicious homemade food and sleep in accommodations you hand select.
Hannah Krebs works as a ban-chleasaiche | Gaelic Cultural Animator at Baile na Gàidheal | Highland Village Museum. Gaelic language, music, and square dances are some of her favourite things about Cape Breton.
Shannon MacMullin is a Gàidhlig learner, singer and storyteller; a community educator, and the Cultural Experiences Co-ordinator at Baile nan Gàidheal | Highland Village. She loves dancing, making beauty in the world & bringing people together.
The Gaels celebrated their culture not in huge buildings or sculptures but in their songs. Their songs told the stories of the people, the land, good times and bad, love's lost and yearned for.
There’s nothing better than watching two musicians who just love playing music together.
As a songwriter, I’ve often described my creative process as though I have tuned into an invisible radio frequency.
It is well-established that dance tradition is an important, if not defining, influence on Cape Breton's traditional music.
Heather Rankin is a singer, songwriter, actor and member of the 6X Juno Award winning band The Rankin Family. As a solo artist she has released two albums, A Fine Line (ECMA/Juno Nom.) and Imagine (ECMA Nom.).
The annual Guitar Summit concert serves as an obvious showcase for these world-class pickers, but this wealth of talent inevitably shines through in concerts throughout each Festival.