Cabot Trail Writers Festival 2022
Next Date: Sep 23, 2022
Region: Cabot Trail
Community: St. Ann’s
Join fellow book-lovers for an event-packed week of laughter and up-close conversation with your favourite authors. Every fall, as the Highl...
Féill Eachainn Mhóir | Pioneer Day
Date: Sep 17, 2022
This afternoon festival of rural life is for the entire family. See demonstrations of flax processing, candle and soap making, and play horseshoes. Watch the Cash Carding Mill demonstrations, treadle sewing, and a spinning frolic, fiddling, piping, Gaelic singing, step dancing, a céilidh, corn boil, and a whole lot more. This year, we will also celebrate the official opening of our working Cash’s Shingle MIll. Regular admission rates apply. 12-4:30 pm
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Eilean na h-Òige | Island of Youth Living History Program - Wednesdays
Region: Bras d’Or Lake
Community: Iona & Area
Repeats every week every Wednesday until Wed Aug 31 2022. Take part in this special living history program for children and get a sense of...
Oidhche nam Bòcan | Night of the Spooks
Next Date: Oct 28, 2022
Region: Bras d’Or Lake
Community: Iona & Area
Come and celebrate Halloween with a special evening tour of the Highland Village by lamplight, complete with storytelling, skits, and specia...
Fiddle & Folk Foliage Farewell 2022
Next Date: Oct 17, 2022
Region: Cabot Trail
Community: Margaree Valley
The Barn Music and Theatre Society of Margaree will be holding our Fiddle & Folk Foliage Farewell, a 3-day all-ages music festival from...
The Bells of Baddeck - 2022 Commemorative Production
Next Date: Aug 17, 2022
Region: Cabot Trail
Community: Baddeck
Update: Due to COVID-19, the visitor experience at Parks Canada-administered places may be different than it has been in the past. Please v...
Festival of Cape Breton Fiddling 2022
Next Date: Aug 20, 2022
Fiddlers, piano players, singers, dancers, and guitar players will congregate on the grounds of the Gaelic College, Colaisde na Gaidhlig, in...
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