MABOU: On August 16, Great Big Sea founder Séan McCann will be performing at the Strathspey Centre in Mabou to start a tour across the Maritimes. McCann says it will just be him and Old Brown, his first guitar.
The...
PORT HAWKESBURY: Steve MacIntyre says the Cabin Fever Concert Series will be a great way to feature local artists during a normally slow season.
The concert series, which will take place at the Shannon...
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...
PORT HAWKESBURY: The J. Franklin Wright Gallery at the Civic Centre is now featuring the work of a local photographer.
On Sept. 8, the official opening took place for a new photography exhibit “Flora,...
PORT HAWKESBURY: The craft of storytelling was on fine
display last week as the Port Hawkesbury Literacy Council hosted an exciting new
author reading from a debut novel, alongside one of Canada’s most beloved
children’s authors at FEIS 2019.
KEMPT ROAD: As they plan to re-open fully to the public, those at a local facility are staying busy with a number of projects.
Canadian Pioneer Estates Ltd. founder/president Rolf Bouman, one of the...
DUNDEE: The Dundee Resort and Golf Club will host its first ever Folk Music Festival this spring.
From May 10-12, the Richmond County facility will host what organizers hope is the first of many Dundee Resort Folk Music Festivals.
Organizer Krista...
INVERNESS: The short film Bòcan, the first production from filmmaking collective Cape Breton Film (formerly known as
Inverness Film) is part of the 2019 lineup for FIN Atlantic International Film
Festival.
Bòcan’s selection was announced
during the...
PORT HAWKESBURY: To honour the upcoming retirement of Port Hawkesbury’s Director of Marketing, Recreation, Tourism, and Culture, the town organized a tribute at her last town council meeting.
At the virtual meeting on May...
PORT HAWKESBURY: On Jan. 31 Taylor Linloff was part of an episode of the CBC docuseries You Can’t Ask That which asks questions of Canadians with various disabilities.
In her case, Linloff was diagnosed...