Cabot Bar
Region: Canada’s Musical Coast
Community: Inverness
Whether stopping in for a quick post-round snack or lingering longer, Cabot Bar will be sure to impress with diverse menu offerings, includi...
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: Inverness
Whether stopping in for a quick post-round snack or lingering longer, Cabot Bar will be sure to impress with diverse menu offerings, includi...
Region: Canada’s Musical Coast
Community: Port Hood
Port Hood Station Provincial Park is a day-use picnic park with a 1km sand and cobble beach. A boardwalk trail leads you around the sand dun...
Region: Canada’s Musical Coast
Community: Judique
The Celtic Music Centre’s Ceilidh Pub offers lunch service featuring live traditional Celtic music with some of Cape Breton’s be...
Region: Canada’s Musical Coast
Community: Mabou Harbour
Due to COVID-19, visits are by appointment only. Please call (not text) or email in advance. This is a home studio and visitors will need to...
Region: Bras d’Or Lake
Community: River Denys
Length: 9 km (5.6 mi) return Hiking Time: 2+hrs Type of Trail: compacted earth Uses (no snow): walking, biking, horseback riding, ATVs Uses ...
Region: Canada’s Musical Coast
Community: Inverness
Let us be your guide as you discover Cape Breton Island. Cabot Discovery Tours offers small group tours from Baddeck, NS and cruise excursio...
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.