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Celtic Colours International Festival is a Celtic music festival held annually in October on Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia, Canada.. First held in 1997, the festival has featured musicians from the Celtic world and attracted visitors to Cape Breton Island around the time of peak autumn colour.
The Savoy Theatre is a historic Victorian-Style theatre, first established in 1901, with the present theatre building dating from 1927.The Savoy is located in Glace Bay, Cape Breton Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia, Canada, and operates as a performing arts venue, presenting a wide variety of local, national and international entertainment.
While the venue is available for rent the theatre has begun to host many of Cape Breton's finest in the fields of music, dance, and entertainment. The management's intention is to create a reliable theatrical presence downtown, producing quality productions with a special emphasis on Cape Breton songs and stories.
In the province of Nova Scotia in Canada, Celtic music has played a significant role, both in its traditional forms and fused with other musical styles. [1] Nova Scotia's folk music features traditional tunes brought over from the Scottish Highlands in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, as well as localized forms such as Cape Breton fiddle music. [1]
Nova Scotia Gaelic Mòd is an annual folk festival, held every August in the Cape Breton Island region of Nova Scotia, Canada. It features many traditional Scottish games, dances, costumes, and food specialties.
Dance styles associated with the music are Cape Breton step dancing, Cape Breton square dancing (Iona style and Inverness style), and highland dancing. In 2005, as a tribute to the area's traditional music , the construction of a tourism center and the world's largest fiddle and bow was completed on the waterfront in Sydney, Nova Scotia .
Graham studied political science at St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish (BA Honours), and obtained his first post-graduate degree (Master of Arts) in Atlantic Canada Studies at Saint Mary's University, Halifax in 2004, with his thesis, Cape Breton Fiddle Music: The Making and Maintenance of a Tradition Archived 2011-08-13 at the Wayback Machine.
Cape Breton Island has experienced a decline in population of approximately 2.9% since the 2011 census. Approximately 75% of the island's population is in the Cape Breton Regional Municipality (CBRM), which includes all of Cape Breton County and is often referred to as Industrial Cape Breton.