Splinter Sisters
Region: Sydney and Area / Marconi Trail
Community: Sydney
We work with our clients to design and create custom art, furniture & decor that fits their space, style, AND budget. Whether your tas...
Highland Arts Theatre, or “The HAT” as it’s affectionately called, is the name of a performance venue in downtown Sydney, Nova Scotia, formerly the home of St. Andrew’s Church. When the church was decommissioned in 2013, local musician and businessman Kevin Colford stepped up to transform the beloved historical building into a state of the art centre for arts and culture. The venue officially re-opened in June 2014 with an original musical comedy: “The Wakowski Brothers”.
While the venue is available for rent and has hosted many of Cape Breton’s finest in the fields of music and dance, it is our mandate to create a reliable, professional theatrical presence in downtown Sydney, producing quality productions with a special emphasis on Cape Breton songs and stories. As of May 2019, the theatre has produced more than 60 homegrown productions of plays and musicals along with concerts, screenings, and special events.
In June 2016, the HAT became a Professional Member of Theatre Nova Scotia.
Region: Sydney and Area / Marconi Trail
Community: Sydney
We work with our clients to design and create custom art, furniture & decor that fits their space, style, AND budget. Whether your tas...
Region: Sydney and Area / Marconi Trail
Community: Sydney
Let me fill those spaces between your walls with perfectly flawed custom pieces created uniquely just for you. Located in beautiful Cape Bre...
Region: Sydney and Area / Marconi Trail
Community: Sydney
About Breton Air: Breton Air is Cape Breton’s premier helicopter charter and utility aviation company. Operating tours daily out of the Sy...
Region: Bras d’Or Lake
The Barrachois Provincial Park is located in Ironville on Cape Breton Island (located 12 km (8 mi) south of Highway 125). Formerly a far...
Region: Sydney and Area / Marconi Trail
Community: Sydney
About Downtown Nutrition: Locally-owned & loved health food and supplements. Friendly & knowledgeable staff serve up deliciousness w...
Region: Sydney and Area / Marconi Trail
Community: Sydney Mines
Sydney Mines Heritage Museum & Fossil Centre in Sydney Mines on Cape Breton Island focuses on the history and heritage of the town of Sy...
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.