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Cabot Trail Relay Race More Info
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May 29 to May 30 This 17-stage relay race commences in Baddeck and travels through the Cape Breton Highlands to Margaree. On the 298 km (185 mi) course, teams of seventeen from around the region and beyond participate in two days of competitive and recreational road racing. A meet-and-greet event and an awards banquet are featured. Address: Baddeck NS CAN Tel: 1 902 562-6621
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Lobsterpalooza More Info
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May 29 to Jul 01 Occurring over 35 days, this annual festival feature a wide range of seafood events and traditional festivities at communities around the Cabot Trail. Boat tours, art exhibits, community seafood suppers, ceilidhs and a mussel festival are just some of the highlights. Address: Various Communities Cape Breton NS Tel: 1 902 270-3330
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Englishtown Mussel Festival + My Favorites
TBA The Englishtown Mussel Festival is a day long food and music festival featuring Mussels and lobsters from the local St. Ann's Bays.
Activities include a Celtic music fest all day, children's entertainment and a chef's contest where hopefuls can enter any seafood dish. A European chef will judge entries and award a prize.
Enter the 5 km fun run at noon or take a 45 minute ride on St. Ann's Harbour. A dance follows at the end of the day. Address: Englishtown Hall, main highway Englishtown N.S.
Lobsterpalooza More Info
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TBA Celebrate marine traditions and enjoy fresh seafood at Lobsterpalooza, occurring in late spring and early summer to coincide with the start of lobster fishing season. Numerous activities are available along the Cabot Trail.
Canada Day Celebrations + My Favorites
TBA A community celebration held at the S & L Railway Station in Louisbourg featuring: opening ceremony, flag-raising ceremony, singing of "O Canada", outdoor concert, clown performance, cutting of cake, face painting, BBQ, and more. Admission is free. Address: S & L Railway Station Louisbourg
Marion Bridge 10km Road Race + My Favorites
TBA Commencing at the Marion Bridge fire hall, this 10 km (6.2 mi) road race does a loop down Hillside drive and back to the fire hall. An awards ceremony and light lunch follow the race. Address: Marion Bridge Fire Hall Marion Bridge NS Tel: 1 902 733-2351
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Festival of the Strait More Info
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TBA Festivities taking place during this four-day festival include live outdoor concerts, children's activities and a parade. Events take place at the Port Hawkesbury waterfront. Address: Port Hawkesbury Waterfront Port Hawkesbury NS
Cape Breton Highlands National Park Geocaching Challenge Weekend + My Favorites
TBA Hiking and geo-caching safety workshops and a two-day geo-cache adventure through Cape Breton Highlands National Park are the highlight of this annual event. Closing festivities at the Keltic Lodge in Ingonish, including awards and entertainment, are also available to participants. Address: Various Venues Cape Breton Highlands National Park NS Tel: 1 902 224-4226
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Mabou Ceilidh Days Festival + My Favorites
TBA Highlights of this four-day celebration include land and water parades, fiddling concerts, dance performances, traditional ceilidhs and food events. The annual has been a fixture in Mabou since the late 1960s and has something for every age. Address: Various Venues Mabou NS Tel: 1 902 945-2378
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Whycocomagh Summer Festival + My Favorites
TBA This annual festival features square dances, softball tournaments, ceilidhs, canoe races, a street fair and pancake breakfasts. An array of children's activities, a parade and live concerts are just a few of the additional festivities offered. Address: Various Venues Whycocomagh NS Tel: 1 902 756-2617
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Coal Dust Days + My Favorites
TBA Created in an effort to pay tribute to the town's deeply rooted heritage, the Coal Dust Days festival carries on this tradition by bringing together families and friends to celebrate their culture and community.
Address: . New Waterford Tel: 1 902 862-2468
Le Festival de l'Escaouette More Info
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TBA This cultural festival celebrates Acadian traditions through music, dance and food. Highlights include theatrical performances, live concerts, Acadian-style kitchen parties and summer camp opportunities for children. Address: Various Venues Cheticamp NS Tel: 1 902 224-2642
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North Sydney Bartown Festival More Info
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TBA The Bartown Festival is a fun-filled event that takes place on the waterfront in North Sydney, Nova Scotia. The festival has a variety of entertainment such as mainstage performances, parades, a treasure hunt, a beach party (limbo!), children's activities, fireworks and much more. Admission is free. Address: Various Locations North Sydney NS Tel: 1 902 794-8589
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Cape Breton Bike Fest: Thunder in the Highlands More Info
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Jul 30 to Aug 02 Occurring over the last weekend in July, this annual event offers an array of rallies, scheduled rides and events for motorcycle enthusiasts. In addition to featuring an extensive choice of activities from the Sydney home-base, visitors are welcome to take self-guided tours and participate in coinciding festivals island-wide.
Highland Village Day + My Favorites
TBA An annual afternoon concert at the Highland Village. The concert includes perfomances by popular Cape Breton artists in music, song and dance.
Louisbourg Crab Festival + My Favorites
TBA An annual tradition in the community of Louisbourg, this event celebrates seafood and Celtic culture through live music performances and crab dinners. An array of children's activities, including face painting and games are also featured. Address: Louisbourg Waterfront Louisbourg NS Tel: 1 902 733-2351
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Nicolas Denys Days + My Favorites
TBA An array of festivities for all ages are featured at this annual event, including a poker walk, a teddy bear picnic, a parade, canoe races, alfresco live painting exhibits and boat cruises. Live entertainment, community suppers and a range of fund raising events are scheduled.
Bras d'Or Lakes Inn Address: 10095 Grenville Street St. Peter's Nova Scotia Canada B0E 3B0
Wallace MacAskill Yacht Club Week Regatta More Info
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TBA Highlights of this week-long event include sailing and boating safety demonstrations, a poker run for yachts, two-hour boat cruises for the pubic and the MacDonnell Cup Races regatta. Live entertainment, barbecues and a closing awards ceremony are also featured.
Cape Breton Bikefest-Thunder in the Highlands More Info
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TBA Coinciding with numerous other festivals and events island-wide, this three-day rally features an array of festivities for everyone. In addition to self-guided rides, safety training demonstrations, a street party, fireworks displays and a vendor village are available at or near the festivals' Center 200 home base in Sydney.
Annual Ceilidh On The Wharf + My Favorites
TBA Held at the Mabou Coal Mines wharf, this annual celebration showcases local talent in a full-day ceilidh. Boat rides, concessions and an array of activities for children are featured. Address: Mabou Coal Mines Wharf Mabou NS Tel: 1 902 945-2685
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Action Week More Info
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TBA Action week is a nine day long community summer festival featuring activities and fun for the entire family. Includes gigantic kick-off concert, boardwalk busker festival, sports tournaments, night light parade, cultural and historical programs, children's festival, waterfront concerts, fireworks display and much more. Address: Various Locations Sydney NS
Margaree Summer Festival + My Favorites
TBA This summer festival features theatre performances, river float races, a parade, a community pot luck and a garden party. The event occurs on the last weekend in July. A donation box for seniors' theatre performance is set up and the box social is also an auction. Most events are free. Address: . Margaree
Gaelic Concert Series More Info
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TBA 10th Annual Gaelic Concert Series
Bu Deònach Leam Tilleadh
The title of our Gaelic Concert Series is derived from a song composed by Christmas Island Bard Hugh F. MacKenzie. While working in the lumber camps, he lamented about leaving his home in Christmas Island. "Christmas of 1927 overtook me in Northern Ontario, eighty miles from civilization. While my associates amused themselves playing cards, I laid in bed to indulge in my melancholy alone. My thoughts of home and Cape Breton I tried to voice in the following verses, vowing,
Bu Deònach Leam Tilleadh
I would willingly return.
Each Tuesday evening some of Cape Breton’s finest musicians gather at the Christmas Island Fire Hall to share the stage with emerging talent and local tradition bearers in bilingual Gaelic-English concerts. A traditional Tea including oatcakes and tea biscuits is served during intermission.
Concerts begin at 8pm;
Admission $10.00, Children 14 and under $5.00
Family Rates Available
July 15th Mòd Nam Fìdhlearan The Fiddler’s Court MC Hector MacNeil
Come help us kick off the summer with a night of traditional fiddling, as well as piano and dancing with some of Cape Breton’s finest including Glenn Graham, 5 time recording artist, multiple East Coast Music Award nominee and author of “The Cape Breton Fiddle”, fiddler Bonnie Jean MacDonald, formally of the band “Kilt,” presently playing with “Crossfire “and Howie MacDonald an East Coast Music Award recipient and Canadian Country Music Award nominee. Howie has over 10 recordings to his name.
A concert you won’t want to miss!
July 22nd A’ Moladh Ar n-Òigridh Celebrating Our Youth MC Beth MacNeil
Tonight we celebrate young talent from Cape Breton & the USA. We’ve planned a high energy night including fiddles, pipes, dancing, & Gaelic song. We welcome sisters Dawn & Margie Beaton piano/fiddle) & Tara Rankin (piano/song) from Mabou, CB; Tiber Falzett (piper) from Scanton, PA & Jody MacKenzie (piano), Anita MacDonald (fiddle), & Evan Bonaparte (guitar) all from the local area.
July 29th Pìob, Fidheall, Is Piano
Pipe, Fiddle, Piano MC Angus MacLeod
Tonight we celebrate the 3 instruments that have made traditional Cape Breton music possible. Doug MacPhee is a virtuoso pianist and will accompany fiddle recording artist Duane Cote. The Boisdale Trio consisting of Joe Peter MacLean (one of the last Gaelic speaking fiddle players in C.B.) pianist Janet Cameron & fiddler Paul Wukitsch accompanied tonight by Janet’s brother Father Francis. Piper Paul K. MacNeil, and pianist Tracy Dares-MacNeil are long time friends of the Féis and we’re excited to have them with us tonight.
August 5th “Màiri Sìne le Seana Càirdean Is Càirdean Ùra” Mary Jane Old Friends & New Friends MC Mary Jane Lamond
Long time supporter of Gaelic in Nova Scotia, recording artist/singer Mary Jane Lamond will entertain us tonight along with her friends or Càirdean in Gaelic; fiddler and member of Béolach Wendy MacIsaac, guitarist and also a member of Béolach Patrick Gillis; Rachael Davis an up and coming fiddler from Cape Breton, and Piper Rankin MacInnis from Mabou. Don’t be surprised if more Gaelic singers and dancers jump up on stage. A concert not to be missed!
August 12th An Teaghlach Ceòl Mhor
The Musical Family MC Shamus Y MacDonald
We are fortunate to have Lucy, Boyd, and Stuart MacNeil of the famous musical family the Barra MacNeils with us tonight. The amount of instruments this group plays is endless!
The Gillis Sisters- Janet Gillis, Cathy MacMillan, Maria Gillis-Carriere, and Carmel MacDonald learned their Gaelic songs from their father native Gaelic speaker and highly regarded Gaelic singer Neil John Gillis. A musical night indeed!
Address: 8539 Grand Narrows Highway,(Route 223) Christmas Island NS Tel: 1 902 622-2627
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Cape Breton Pride Week More Info
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TBA Highlights of this annual event include a pride parade, a drag show, a baseball tournament, karaoke parties and a beach bash and camp-out. A music festival, dance and a movie night are just a few of the additional offerings.
Judique-on-the-floor Days + My Favorites
TBA Various events including outdoor dances, road race, parade, children's games and concerts.
The festival will be held at the Judique Recreation Grounds along River Denys Road. Address: . Judique
Annual Feis an Eilein More Info
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TBA 5-Day Gaelic Cultural Festival designed to provide intimacy with the Gaelic language and culture through educational and social events for people of all ages. Featuring bonfire, concerts, ceilidhs, family square dances, symposium,and workshops Address: 8539 Grand Narrows Highway,(Route 223) Tel: 1 902 622-2627
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The Kitchen Ceilidh Workshop Series + My Favorites
TBA Every Thursday during July and August, the Celtic Music Center comes alive with traditional sounds through intimate workshops in guitar, fiddle and piano. Visitors have the opportunity to learn techniques and Ceilidh-style musical traditions from accomplished regional instructors and musicians.
Granville Green More Info
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TBA Admission is free to this outdoor concert series, which occurs annually in July and August. The concerts occur every Sunday and feature both established and up-and-coming musicians performing a variety of entertaining, world-class shows. Address: Granville Green, Waterfront Port Hawkesbury NS Tel: 1 902 625-2591
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Hike the Highlands Festival More Info
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TBA Every fall, this 10-day festival features guided-hikes and celebrations on Cape Breton Island. With informed guides and varying degrees of difficulty, these hikes are available for both beginners and seasoned-trekkers alike. Address: . Cape Breton Island NS
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