By Stephen Cooke - Entertainment Reporter
With all the music festival happenings going on around the region, it’s important to remember that not everything onstage this summer involves a cranked-up guitar, pounding keyboard...
CHÉTICAMP: A beloved local band with decades of history are coming together for a special cause this fall, one near to the group’s own heart.
On Sept. 13, former members of The Phantoms will...
SABLE ISLAND: Baddeck-based musician and painter Rose Morrison has been selected as the first participant in Sable Island’s inaugural artist-in-residence program, an initiative designed to inspire creative works shaped by the island’s expansive landscape and rich history.
JOHNSTOWN: A feature film showcasing key scenes shot in Richmond County will make its world debut at the 50th annual Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), running from Sept. 4 to 14.
Little Lorraine, inspired...
By Adam McNamara
BADDECK: The Cape Breton Comedy Festival is expanding in its third year with a stop in Baddeck that will feature a live national taping for CBC Radio. The highly anticipated show...
By Stephen Cooke
A gorgeous, if occasionally windswept, weekend for the Stan Rogers Folk Festival in Canso set a high bar on its Thursday kick-off night. Once again, the event paid tribute to a...
ANTIGONISH: Nearly 1,000 music lovers from across the Maritimes – and as far away as Europe – gathered just outside Antigonish County from July 18 to 20 for the second annual Relics Music Festival. While the festival...
By Stephen Cooke - Entertainment Reporter
CANSO: A lot of names got checked off the Stan Rogers Folk Festival wish list over the years, including songwriting and folk legends like Arlo Guthrie, Nanci Griffith,...
By Stephen Cooke - Entertainment Reporter
To paraphrase the late Stan Rogers, you’ll wish you were in Sherbrooke now, or rather a few days from now, when the Eastern Shore village is one of...
By Kevin Adshade reporter@pictoucountynews.ca
PICTOU: Jeb Patterson had been hanging out in Pictou recently, waiting to get the transmission fixed in his 30-year-old van.
“It’s been taking awhile,” he says.