KitchenFest!: Blas Math Lunchtime Céilidh at the Gaelic College
Next Date: Jul 2, 2025
Tap your toes to the sounds of live music when you join us for lunch! Swing by for a delicious daily special from the kitchen and enjoy our ...
Date: Aug 29, 2025
The 12th annual Acoustic Roots Festival is scheduled for August 29 to 31. Held on the 500-acre site of Two Rivers Wildlife Park, the festival showcases East Coast folk, country, Celtic, blues, and bluegrass performers. The stage lights up Friday evening with music and workshops continuing throughout the weekend, starting with a traditional square dance workshop on Saturday morning. In addition to the music, festival-goers get to enjoy all the activities this year-round family recreational park has to offer including camping, walking trails through wildlife enclosures, a petting zoo, fish ponds, playgrounds, swimming in the Mira River, and the observatory.
Friday: 7-10:30pm | Saturday: 10:30am-10:30pm | Sunday: 10:30am-10:30pm
Next Date: Jul 2, 2025
Tap your toes to the sounds of live music when you join us for lunch! Swing by for a delicious daily special from the kitchen and enjoy our ...
Next Date: Jul 20, 2025
Region: Bras d’Or Lake
Community: Big Pond
The Big Pond Concert is back this summer. After decades at MacIntyre’s Field and a few years inside the fire hall, the concert is back out...
Next Date: Jul 12, 2025
Region: Cabot Trail
Community: Baddeck
A family in a tight-knit Cape Breton community loses their daughter to the big smoke–T.O. How to stay in touch when long distance calls co...
Next Date: Jul 20, 2025
Region: Cabot Trail
Community: Baddeck
Theatre Baddeck’s production of Ed’s Garage, by Dan Needles, tells the story of former cattle farmer, Peter, who arriv...
Next Date: Jul 19, 2025
Region: Cabot Trail
Community: Baddeck
Theatre Baddeck’s production of Ed’s Garage, by Dan Needles, tells the story of former cattle farmer, Peter, who arriv...
Next Date: Jul 25, 2025
Region: Cabot Trail
Community: Baddeck
The name “The Baddeck Gathering” Ceilidh came from a popular fiddle tune of the same name that was recorded by many Cape Breton ...
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