Arts & Music
Musicians, sculpturers, dancers, voice and visual artists. Music and the arts provide many opportunities for rural people to express their creativity. These stories highlight artisans, craftspeople, artists, and musicians.
Old New Scotland
Accompanied by words and poems, the sense of connection and longing that 19th Century Scottish immigrants to Nova Scotia felt for their lost homeland is on display in this piece.
Church Restoration
The Saint Ninian Cathedral in Antigonish was painted by the world renown french Canadian painter, Oziaz Leduc, in the early 1900’s.
Jesus Took My Burden and Left Me with a Song: The Story of Kass Gerro
Kass is a gospel singer, X-Project volunteer and devoted mother and grandmother.
Fenn Martin, ceramic artist
Fenn Martin of Antigonish county is a masterful ceramic artist whose rural themes speak volumes about our history, rural economy and culture. Fenn designs and delivers custom ceramic sculptures that link architectural spaces with the communities of people who use...
A Story by Stan Chapman
Well known fiddler and fiddle teacher Stan Chapman told this interesting and amusing story while on a trip to the Magdalene Islands. It happened at an international fiddle workshop in California (which...