Tag: cape breton
As October begins, it’s almost time for Thanksgiving — Thanksgiving in Canada, that is. That has me thinking about the stories of Canada adventures we’ve shared with you, experiences …
It is coming up on Burns night or Burns day or week if you prefer, as I write this. Robert Burns, that is, who is being celebrated. He is …
Cape Breton music rises from landscape and from community. It connects that landscape and those communities. It makes those connections stronger, and helps them evolve over time How can …
KitchenFest! What is it? People get together — most often in the kitchen, so there’s a feeling of welcome, and food and drink will be handy — to play …
A festival steeped in and celebrating the culture, landscape, and music of a beautiful albeit rather remote place: this is Celtic Colours. –>Update, late May 2021: Word has just …
Gaelic. Maybe you’ve been introduced to the language through Outlander on television or through the film Brave. Perhaps you’ve seen Gaelic on road signs or in museum descriptions in …
Canada: as much as it is a vast country in landscape, it is made up of regions, towns, cities, communities. Each of these places is home to people with …
Crossing borders goes along with traveling. In many ways crossing borders goes along with playing music, too. In both cases, there’s an art to keeping centered while taking on …
Mention the name Alexander Graham Bell and people will automatically think telephone. But although he gave ‘voice to the world’ by inventing the telephone, the telephone is only one …
Cape Breton is at the far north of the province of Nova Scotia, in the Maritmes of Atlantic Canada. Across that Atlantic Ocean the e closest landfall is Scotland, …