HALIFAX: After 10 years of sold-out circles at Casino Nova Scotia, Bruce Guthro is taking his songwriter circle on-line featuring 30 amazing artists and 14 shows. This will be a fun, interactive format.
As...
ANTIGONISH: Despite numerous cancellations over the next few months, the Antigonight Festival team is moving ahead to explore an adapted festival. Antigonight is presented by Antigonish Culture Alive, a community arts council and registered charity not-for-profit organization.
SYDNEY: Faced with the uncertainty of travel and restrictions on large gatherings continuing into the fall—and in consultation with public officials—Celtic Colours International Festival will be doing things differently this year.
With the safety...
D’ESCOUSSE: Due to COVID-19, the 2019 Atlantic Journalism Awards gala evening in Halifax, Nova Scotia was cancelled this year, but the award winners were still announced on-line on May 8.
Among the Gold Medal...
PORT HAWKESBURY: Steve MacIntyre turned on his radio, but he had to turn it down.
“It was just too big a story, too small a town,” the Port Hawkesbury resident sings over the sound...
STRAIT AREA: There will be very few events of any size
this summer throughout the Strait area.
After the Stan Rogers Folk Festival in Canso, Port
Hawkesbury’s Festival of the Strait, the L’Ardoise Acadian Festival, Pirate
Days...
ANTIGONISH: After weeks of careful deliberation, the
staff and board of Festival Antigonish Summer Theatre (FAST) has decided to
postpone the company’s entire 33rd season until the summer of 2021.
FAST joins a growing list of...
PORT HOOD: An amateur cook with plenty of experience,
has become a hit for the millions of people self-isolating during the COVID-19
pandemic.
Mary Janet MacDonald has seven children, and two of
them are living in Alberta....
MISSISSAUGA, ONTARIO: The author of a new book about
nurses during World War I says his work is relevant for these unprecedented
times as health care workers toil on the front lines.
Former Port Hawkesbury and...
DUNDEE: Strait area author Michael Gerhartz has entered
his crime suspense thriller, Dark
Times, into the Page Turner eBook Award.
Hoping to win an audiobook production consisting or one
of the other prizes, Gerhartz entered the Page...