Parrsboro International Plein Air Festival
Artists from around the world spend a week painting outdoors along the shores of the Bay of Fundy at Parrsboro, where the world's highest tides create a dramatic and ever-changing canvas that draws both painters and visitors to this small Nova Scotia town.
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"The world's oldest Acadian festival, now in its seventh decade, stretches across two weeks on Nova Scotia's French Shore with concerts, art and quilt expositions, kitchen parties, and the exuberant Tintamarre noisemaking parade on National Acadian Day."
Festival acadien de Clare
"Founded in 1765, the Hants County Exhibition is the oldest continuously running agricultural fair in North America, still drawing communities together across two weekends in Windsor for livestock competitions, horticultural displays, crafts, and carnival entertainment."
Hants County Exhibition
"Set in the charming Annapolis Valley university town of Wolfville, this beloved annual celebration of folk, roots, and acoustic music blends the founding musical cultures of Nova Scotia with modern roots talent across intimate indoor and outdoor stages."
Deep Roots Music Festival
"Celebrating its 30th anniversary in 2026, this nine-day festival sends fiddles, pipes, and song echoing through dozens of Cape Breton villages against a backdrop of peak autumn foliage, with 52 concerts and hundreds of community cultural experiences."
Celtic Colours International Festival
"Nova Scotia's longest-running folk music festival brings more than 35 years of traditional and contemporary roots music to the UNESCO World Heritage waterfront of Old Town Lunenburg, with concerts, waterfront jams, and an intimate Maritime atmosphere."
Lunenburg Folk Harbour Festival
"A beloved waterfront celebration of the scallop-fishing industry that put this Fundy Shore town on the culinary map, featuring parades, live music, carnival rides, lobster boat races, and fresh scallop suppers on the Digby wharf."
Digby Scallop Days
"A four-day literary festival set in the tiny heritage village on the shores of Bonne Bay within Gros Morne National Park, bringing celebrated Canadian and international writers together for readings, poetry, and storytelling under some of the most dramatic scenery in Eastern Canada."
Writers at Woody Point Festival
"The inaugural Yukon Fringe Festival brings theatre, dance, comedy, storytelling, circus and puppetry to downtown Whitehorse in October 2026, expanding the Canadian Fringe circuit to the country's far north for the first time."
Yukon Fringe Festival
"A much-loved artisan and music festival set within the heritage gardens of Filberg Lodge in Comox, showcasing fine craft, juried artisans, and live music in an idyllic Vancouver Island setting."
Filberg Festival
"A grassroots two-day community arts festival held in the tiny Cariboo village of Horsefly, celebrating local and regional visual and performing arts in a remote lakeside setting."
Arts on the Fly
"Running since 1989 on Gwich'in and Inuvialuit lands in the remote Arctic town of Inuvik, this five-day pan-Arctic arts gathering is North America's longest-running festival of Arctic art and music, bringing over 50 workshops, two stages, intricate beadwork, carvings and wearable art made from sealskin and moose hide."
Great Northern Arts Festival