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CTV News
30-06-2025
- Entertainment
- CTV News
Toe-tapping good time: Cape Breton's KitchenFest! Celebrates Gaelic culture
There were tunes and tapping toes on Monday during a lunchtime ceilidh at the Gaelic College in St. Anne's Bay, N.S., as part of the twelfth annual KitchFest! 'We've come here every year for ten years for the Celtic Colours,' said Jean-Louis Bergeron, who was visiting from Sherbrooke, Que. While Bergeron is a veteran of the well-known Celtic Colours International Festival held every October, this is his first time coming to Cape Breton to experience KitchenFest! – a nine-day event to kick off summer with shows all over the Island. 'The people are very friendly,' said Bergeron. 'The scenery is beautiful and the music is great, so what else can you ask for?' Nova Scotia's former premier Rodney MacDonald is now the CEO of the Gaelic College and heads up KitchenFest! 'There are over 80 shows around Cape Breton Island,' said MacDonald. MacDonald says tourists from all over come to check out the shows. Proof of that could be found in the parking lot Monday, as license plates from all over the U.S. Eastern Seaboard were on display. Proceeds from the festival go into the programs offered at the Gaelic College. 'Any dollars raised through the festival go towards our programs to teach youth, whether it's language, music, dance or craft,' said MacDonald. 'And that's important – it's part of our mandate.' Shirley Hefferon and Ian MacDonald came to Monday's concert from nearby Baddeck, N.S. They said the festival was worth checking out as locals because of its relaxed pace. 'It was great. Good meal, too', Hefferon said. 'We enjoy it, we'll be back,' Ian Macdonald added. 'They're doing a pub night here on Thursday – we'll do that one.' Organizers say more than 90 per cent of performers at KitchenFest! are from Cape Breton and eastern Nova Scotia. 'We're wrapping up on Saturday,' MacDonald said. 'There's a lot of different shows that day. In particular, the Glendale Outdoor Concert. It's a longstanding concert, and I encourage people to check it out.' For more Nova Scotia news, visit our dedicated provincial page
New York Post
24-06-2025
- New York Post
Hole shebang: Inside the most exclusive links on Canada's east coast
They mayn't be too keen on becoming our 51st State, but Canada is happy to be our 47 holes — in the form of three premiere golf courses within their sovereign Atlantic border. A pair of 18-hole courses — and one mini third child of an 11-holer — at Cabot Cape Breton (CCB) resort, which opened in 2012 on Nova Scotia's Cape Breton Island, make for a perfect mid-to-late summer Atlantic clubbin' retreat. If you're worried about freezing your balls off, your Titleists will be just fine: It's a balmy 70 to 80 degrees (that's Fahrenheit, no need to panic, centigraders) through September with plenty of cooling breezes perfect for hiking, biking and, through July, KitchenFest, when the town square hosts square dancing, whiskey tastings and 'céilidhs' — Celtic musical numbers with 150 performances, all to help you blow off the steam from your strokes of bad luck on the links. Advertisement 4 Great Scot! CCB sits on coastal Nova Scotia. Armand Barragan The province's Latin name is 'New Scotland,' and these World's Top 100 18-holers live up to their namesake. CCB's Cabot Links is right on the oceanfront while Cabot Cliffs is a little artsier, gently carved with surgical precision out of the cape's vert geography and 'Insta-famous' rolling fairways. And that cute little itty-bitty 11-holer, for those blessed with a more putt-putt penchant, is natally named 'the Nest' atop the highest point of CCB. This is the bunny hill, if you will, perfect for kiddos looking to be the next Nelly Korda. Advertisement For the parents who 'want to watch' their offsprings' swing-and-a-misses from afar, there's always the Glendora Whiskey Distillery, exercising at Coone Barn or taking to the har-tru clay tennis courts all within earshot of the Nest. Your 'Atta girl, honey, you'll get the next one!' chants will still land, however insincere. 4 Linked inn: Stay in CCB's lodge or villa rentals. Off The Deck 4 Rates in peak season start from $452 a night. Cabot Cape Breton Sadly, the major occultic event 'round these parts — the Cabot Cape Breton Solstice Challenge — ended on June 20 when golfers attempted to master all three courses consecutively. The prize was a commemorative coin and complimentary entry into the Solstice After Dark putting contest, where all proceeds went a local charity. Advertisement We recommend doing the challenge anyway, just BYOGJ (bring your own green jacket). With all these 'birdies' and 'eagles' flying around, you might start hankering for some fowl for dinner. Bzzzt, wrong: This is Atlantic Canada, aka pescatarian country. You'll be feasting on Cape Breton seafood chowder or Nova Scotia lobster at CCB's award-winning Panorama restaurant. 4 Drinks at Panorama's bar make for a lovely 19th (or 48th) hole. Jake Graham And now it's ZZZ -o-clock. Crash thee at the resort's charming 72-room lodge with ocean views from every unit or opt for larger homes and villa rentals for groups and families willing to go splitsies. Advertisement Besides those maddening sand traps, the getting here is the truly unholy part of CCB. Your best bet is a two-hour nonstop flight out of LGA or Newark to Halifax Stanfield International, rent a car and drive just over three hours due northeast. Just keep in mind, even if that commute and/or your golf score leaves you with a frowny, boiling red face emoji on the inside, the lovely and e'er smiling Canadian staffers will be as dimpled as your golf balls the entire time to help ease the pain. Mid-season rates (through June 26 and Sept. 15 to 28) start at $383; peak-season rates (June 27 to Sept. 14) start at $452.
