The scenery of the island is rivalled in northeastern North America only by Newfoundland and Cape Breton Island tourism marketing places a heavy emphasis on its Scottish Gaelic heritage through events such as the Celtic Colours Festival, held each October, as well as promotions through the Gaelic College of Celtic Arts and Crafts.

Baddeck is one of several Cape Breton communities that plays host to the Celtic Colours festival each fall.

* Celtic Colours International Festival

In 1994 the band was joined by Karcharoth of Infernum and recorded the demo The Celtic Winter which was released as an EP by German label No Colours which still releases the band ’ s albums.

His trio with English accordionist Martin Green and Canadian guitarist Adam Dobres has become a regular performer at Glasgow's Celtic Connections Festival and Cape Breton's Celtic Colours.

In Canada the provinces of Atlantic Canada are known for being a home of Celtic music, most notably on the islands of Newfoundland, Cape Breton and Prince Edward Island.

Further, some older forms of Celtic music that are rare in Scotland and Ireland today, such as practice of accompanying a fiddle with a piano, or the Gaelic spinning songs of Cape Breton remain common in the Maritimes.

* John Allan Cameron, singer-songwriter, from Glencoe Station, credited as the " Godfather " of Cape Breton's modern Celtic music revival.

Celtic languages are most commonly spoken on the north-western edge of Europe, notably in Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Brittany, Cornwall, and the Isle of Man, and can be found spoken on Cape Breton Island.

As a result, significant portions of the three provinces are influenced by Celtic heritages, with Scottish Gaelic having been widely spoken, particularly in Cape Breton, although it is less prevalent today.

The music festival features hundreds of Celtic musicians from Cape Breton and around the world.

CBRM's culture is dominated by the Scottish Gaelic, or " Celtic " heritage common to most of Cape Breton Island, however the urban industrial area of CBRM is also influenced by a mixture of other cultures including African Canadian, Jewish, Newfoundland, Irish, and a variety of Eastern European countries.

The Gaelic College of Celtic Arts and Crafts ( also known informally as the Gaelic College ) is a Canadian educational institution located in the community of St. Ann's on Nova Scotia's Cape Breton Island along the Cabot Trail.

This is especially true of the island of Cape Breton, one of the major international centers for Celtic music.

Later, in the 19th century the Irish Great Hunger and Scottish Highland Clearances resulted in large influxes of migrants with Celtic cultural roots, which helped to define the dominantly celtic character of Cape Breton and the north mainland of the province.

The province is the heart of a vibrant and popular style of Celtic music and dance derived from the influence of its Highland Scottish settlement, concentrated especially on Cape Breton Island.

In many ways the music and dance over two centuries of relative physical isolation provides a snapshot of Scottish music and dance as it was before its European base took other, more " refined " routes, and today Cape Breton fiddle music has taken a place as a major attraction at Celtic cultural festivals.

Cape Breton fiddling is a regional violin style which falls within the Celtic music idiom.

* Dunlay, Kate, and David Greenberg ( 1996 ), The Dungreen Collection-Traditional Celtic Violin Music of Cape Breton

In addition, a number of other areas of the world are known for the use of Celtic musical styles and techniques, including Newfoundland, and much of the folk music of Canada's Maritimes, especially on Cape Breton Island.

Shaun Bartlett ( born 31 October 1972 in Cape Town ) is a retired South African football striker who last played for Bloemfontein Celtic.

Other Canadian universities which offer courses in Celtic, Scottish or Irish studies include Cape Breton University, Saint Mary's University, Halifax, Simon Fraser University, the University of Guelph and the University of Ottawa.

* British language ( Celtic ), also known as Brythonic, the ancient Celtic language once spoken in Britain, ancestral to Welsh, Cornish and Breton

Breton () is a Celtic language spoken in Brittany (; ), France.

Breton is a Brythonic language, descended from the Celtic British language brought from Great Britain to Armorica by migrating Britons during the Early Middle Ages.

Today, Breton is the only living Celtic language that is not recognized as an official or regional language.

Breton artist Alan Stivell was one of the earliest musicians to use the word Celtic and Keltia in his marketing materials, starting in the early 1960's as part of the worldwide folk music revival of that era with the term quickly catching on with other artists worldwide.

In the 70s, the Breton Alan Cochevelou ( future Alan Stivell ) began playing a mixed repertoire from the main Celtic countries on the Celtic harp his father created.

), as well as in the Celtic languages ( Welsh eglwys, Irish eaglais, Breton iliz, etc.

It is prominent in Welsh, Breton, Irish, Scottish and other Celtic cultures within traditional or folk music and as a social and political symbol.

Alan Stivell, with his father Jord Cochevelou ( who recreated the Breton Celtic harp ), were at the origin of the revival of the Celtic harp ( in the 1970s ).

A Breton force ( 12, 000 men ) under the Celtic leader Riothamus lands in Gaul but is defeated by king Euric.

Celtic giants also figure in Breton and Arthurian romances perhaps as a reflection of the Nordic and Slavic mythology that arrived on the boats, and from this source they spread into the heroic tales of Torquato Tasso, Ludovico Ariosto, and their follower Edmund Spenser.

The Celtic languages also name this day for Saturn: Irish an Satharn or dia Sathuirn, Scottish Gaelic Disathairne, Welsh dydd Sadwrn, Breton Sadorn or disadorn.

Unlike the rest of France and Brittany, Lower Brittany ( roughly, west of a boundary from Saint Brieuc to Vannes ) has maintained a distinctly Celtic language, Breton, which is related to Cornish and Welsh.

** the Breton language, a Celtic language spoken in Brittany ;

In Insular Celtic languages, the same root is found in Welsh, Cornish and Breton mab meaning son ( Delamarre 2003 pp. 216-217 ), derived from Common Brythonic * mapos ( identical to Gaulish ).

Notable Nova Scotian folklorist and cultural historian Helen Creighton spent the majority of her lifetime recording the various Celtic musical and folk traditions of rural Nova Scotia during the mid-20th century, prior to this knowledge being wiped out by mass media assimilation with the rest of North America.

Antigonish Town is a fairly even mix of Irish and Scottish, and the Irish presence contributes to Nova Scotia's Celtic cultural character.

Former presenters of Radio Ireland / Today FM include Philip Boucher-Hayes, Mark Byrne, Mark Cagney, Enda Caldwell, Breffni Clack, Alison Curtis ( The Last Splash and The Alison Curtis Show featuring Mister Ed Smith ), Tom Dunne ( Pet Sounds ), Eamon Dunphy ( original presenter of The Last Word ), Bob Gallico, Tommy Greene, Anne-Marie Hourihan ( originally Eamon Dunphy's co-host ), Bill Hughes, Robbie Irwin ( weekend sports programs presenter ), Mark Kavanagh ( dance show ), Ann Marie Kelly, John Kelly, Stephen Keogh, Tracey Lee, Nails Mahoney ( briefly ), Marty Miller ( now rockin ' out on Radio Nova 100FM ) the late Dermot Morgan, Paddy Murray and Liam Mackey ( Murray and Mackey ), Ian Noctor ( newsreader who also for a period presented Dad Rock ) Ed Myers, Paul Power, Ita Ryan ( The Celtic Reel ), John Ryan ( original presenter of The Sunday Supplement ), Donal Scannell, Jon Troy ( Between The Sheets-love songs ), and Karl Tsigdinos ( The River of Soul ).

Esoteric groups that could be considered to be RHP include Theosophy, as well as various Neopagan religions such as Druidry, Wicca, Kemetism, Celtic Neopaganism, Slavic Neopaganism, Germanic Neopaganism, Nova Roma, Hellenic Neopaganism and the Rada cult of Haitian Vodou, most of Thelema, and certain traditions of the Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica, or the Gnostic Catholic Church.

Both the tune and lyrics are public domain, and many artists have released recordings of " Farewell to Nova Scotia ", including Gordon Lightfoot, The Irish Rovers, Ian and Sylvia Tyson, Anne Murray, Stompin ' Tom Connors, the Celtic punk band Real McKenzies, Schooner Fare, Wicked Tinkers, Battlefield Band, Alex Beaton,

The first popular musician who showed Nova Scotia's Celtic heritage to the mainstream world was John Allan Cameron, a singer and guitarist, and son of legendary fiddler Katie Ann Cameron, who was herself the sister of the music collector Dan Rory MacDonald.

During spring and summer in the Celtic Sea and on the outer Nova Scotian Shelf, porbeagles congregate at tidally induced thermal fronts to feed on fish that have been drawn by high concentrations of zooplankton.

She was born in 1960 in Kingston, Ontario, graduated from Westmount High School in Montreal and then the Celtic Studies program at St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia.

Though similar in its Celtic influence to neighbouring Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland and Labrador are more Irish than Scottish, and have more elements imported from English and French music than those provinces.

* Languages and Celtic Peoples ( Nova Scotia, Canada: St. Mary's University, 1992 )