PORT HAWKESBURY: Celebrating its 25th year, Granville
Green will kick off its free concert series this summer on July 7, with one of
Canada’s favourite bands, Wintersleep.
Wintersleep formed in 2001, and are originally from
Yarmouth. Wintersleep’s...
ANTIGONISH: On the first day of summer, the organizers
of the province’s newest music festival, Nova Scotia Summer Fest, hosted a
kick-off event at the Antigonish Education Centre, which unveiled the final
music lineup, schedule, and acted as a chance...
MABOU: Frank Macdonald, who had two novels in the
running for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and who won the Best
Canadian Play at the Liverpool International Theatre Festival, is the real deal
when it comes to writing. He’s...
DARTMOUTH: In May, the Nova Scotia RCMP launched an art
contest and invited elementary, junior high and high school students to submit
their best piece of artwork demonstrating bicycle safety.
Participants were given a chance to...
PORT HAWKESBURY: Following on the heels of two
successful open houses earlier this spring, Cape Breton’s newest community
theatre program is getting ready for its first official production.
The Strait Area Theatre Society will hold its...
Photos by Dana MacPhail-Touesnard --
Buddy MacDonald, who coached the band calling itself Minute Made, encouraged the audience to sing along with his original material, “Nobody Home” and “Getting Dark Again,” which was made famous by...
Photos by Mary Hankey
The string band, featuring Grade 4 to Grade 6 students from Bayview Education Centre, performed the Beatles’ tune “Here Comes the Sun” at the Music Strait from the Heart concert. They were one...
PORT HAWKESBURY: It was the first time Canadian Tire’s
Jumpstart Games visited Port Hawkesbury but local business owner Kim Melanson,
who runs the town’s Canadian Tire, said she and her team were very pleased to
see approximately 180 kids take...
PORT HAWKESBURY: A Canadian comedy
headliner is making a local appearance.
“I’ve driven through Port Hawkesbury
many times when visiting friends in Cape Breton, but this will be the first
time I do a show there,” said...
GUYSBOROUGH:
In 2013 Kate Tompkins brought her artistic talents to eastern Nova Scotia
through her formation of The Guysborough Players.
Since then, Tompkins and her fellow volunteer actors have
performed their musicals to audiences in Guysborough, Mulgrave,...