Voices & Views Series
Join us for engaging talks on a variety of topics in our "Voices and Views Series.
Free museum admission from 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm, followed by a speaker series at 6:00 pm.
Cainnt is Ceathramhan | Language & Lyrics: The Living Legacy of Gaelic in Nova Scotia, with Dr. Heather Sparling, ethnomusicologist at Cape Breton University.
Explore Gaelic’s cultural and linguistic history in Nova Scotia through song, story, and sound. Discover some recently developed digital resources and learn about current research projects.
Dr. Heather Sparling is an ethnomusicologist at Cape Breton University who researches Gaelic song, music, and dance in Nova Scotia and Atlantic Canadian disaster songs, focusing on issues of language revitalization and memorialization. She is an award-winning teacher and writer and a fluent Gaelic learner. She is principal flutist with the Cape Breton Orchestra and is learning to play the fiddle.
