Music, Folklore & Culture at CBU
1250 Grand Lake Road B1P 6L2 Sydney, NS, Canada

Our friends at Colaisde na Gàidhlig / The Gaelic College and the Celtic Colours International Festival made this video to demonstrate the Great Highland Bagpipes and explain how they work.

The Language in Lyrics project, directed by Dr. Heather Sparling, is releasing their index of Gaelic songs in Nova Scotia to the public. They are releasing a spreadsheet of one song source (e.g., publication, archival collection, recording, newspaper) every other Tuesday. Check it out!

On the way that common horror film roles are dressed and links to folklore. Happy Halloween!

We're in the home stretch of the term! Procrastination is so tempting and maybe even more so when courses are all online. But procrastination can negatively impact your grades. Read on for tips to avoid procrastinating. (But don't read this article as a means of procrastinating... )

Want to learn more about what ethnomusicology is? Check out this youtube vlog by PhD student Kit Ashton about his first visit to the Society for Ethnomusicology's annual conference.

"It was an emotional and powerful story to tell" -- Clifford Paul about the Kun'tewiktuk Project. Last year, Dr. Marcia Ostashewski worked with Membertou First Nation to tell the story of Membertou's forced relocation from the waterfront to their current location. The telling of the story involved documenting oral history and the re-enactment of the story in theatre, engaging young and old from across the community and across the generations.

We are so pleased to be partnering with our friends at Celtic Colours International Festival to offer a $1500 entrance award to our music program! Expressions of interest are requested by Jan 13, 2021 at the link below.

Congratulations to Natalie MacMaster on being named to the Order of Nova Scotia!