Gallery Ruairicroft
Region: Bras d’Or Lake
Community: St. George’s Channel
Original artwork by Berni Thorneycroft. ...
Make and take away a locally handcrafted Mi’kmaq bead work and listen to stories and teachings of our past.
Includes entrance to the Heritage Park specializing in displays, video introduction, traditional guide sharing cultural teachings, tea with blueberry cake and/or Luskinigin.
$25 per person
(Group/ student rates available, please contact us for details)
Duration: 2 to 2.5 hours
Region: Bras d’Or Lake
Community: St. George’s Channel
Original artwork by Berni Thorneycroft. ...
Region: Sydney and Area / Marconi Trail
Community: Sydney
The Whitney Pier Historical Society Museum, located in Sydney on Cape Breton Island, is a community museum honouring the people who came fro...
Region: Sydney and Area / Marconi Trail
Community: Sydney
Guided mini-van tours of Cape Breton’s iconic landmarks. ...
Regions: Cape Breton Highlands National Park, Cabot Trail
Community: Cape Breton Highlands NP
Take in the ocean views at one of Cape Breton Highlands National Park’s most popular beaches bordered by a gentle waterfall on one end and...
Region: Bras d’Or Lake
Community: Wagmatcook
About CleanWave Restaurant: Satisfy your appetite for culture and good food at the Wagmatcook Culture & Heritage Centre! Recently renova...
Region: Cabot Trail
Community: North Shore
The experienced glass blower shows you how to make a piece then guides you make it. The next day when the glass comes out of the kiln you ge...
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.