ANTIGONISH: Joe MacEachern is known for helping create the well-known Evolve Festival and says the new Relics Music Festival to be held this upcoming summer, is an evolution of the past popular festival, not a sequel.
St. Peter’s has a very rich and interesting historical past, and one of our St. Peter’s citizens got to share the knowledge of this history with visitors to the area this past summer.
Maggie Katrichak-Fraser is the curator of the...
HALIFAX: Business for the Arts, Canada’s only national charitable organization that strengthens arts and culture in Canada by building partnerships between the private and cultural sectors, announced today that its artsVest program is continuing for a fourth year in...
By Stephen Cooke
Entertainment Reporter
ANTIGONISH: The curtain has gone up on the list of nominees for the 2024 Robert Merritt Awards, celebrating the past year of accomplishments in professional Nova...
MABOU: It’s hard to find too many people who haven’t heard of John McDermott but, on November 3, locals will have an opportunity to hear the man himself.
That night, the legendary Scottish-Canadian balladeer will visit the Strathspey Performing Arts...
Column by Stephen Cooke
I have a huge fondness for the phrase “cabin fever”, and its more extreme cousin, “shack wacky,” which got a healthy workout during the spring and summer of 2020, for...
HALIFAX: Bridge & Wolak are a globe-trotting music and comedy duo, merging traditional instruments with 21st-century digital technology.
Michael Bridge (accordions and piano) and Kornel Wolak (clarinet and piano) perform their original brand of...
By Stephen Cooke
Last week’s column was, to paraphrase the great Bruce Cockburn, “Wondering where the headliners are?” with regards to this summer’s Stan Rogers Folk Festival, taking place in Canso from July 25...
MABOU: A unique theatrical experience takes place tonight as Sin Agad an Doigh premieres at Strathspey Performing Arts Centre.
“It’s been a busy spring and a busy summer, and it’s continuing right through to Christmas time,” said Tracey MacNeil, executive...
ARICHAT: The St. John’s Centre for the Arts are finalists in the Next Great Save Competition and have a chance at a $50,000 grand prize, aiming to help advance projects that protect, adapt, renew, or improve heritage...