The week-long event, in July, maintains venues for musicians at various locations across the metropolitan area. The Antigonish Highland Games recognizes the strong cultural ties Northeastern Nova Scotia maintains with Scotland. The Halifax International Busker Festival is a 10-day celebration of street performance and craft held in Metro Halifax at the beginning of August. In September, scarecrows are popping up all over the town of Mahone Bay during the Great Scarecrow Festival and Antique Fair . Fun for the whole family, including moonlight graveyard tours, musical variety show, oodles of children's activities, craft demonstrations and street vendors, square dancing, fiddling, more music and a huge antique fair.
Autumn is indeed the most beautiful season in Cape Breton .
In the twilight of the year, the leaves of red, yellow and orange paint the hills and valleys. Autumn is also the time when the sounds of fiddles, pipes and voices in song echo over the island with Celtic Colours International Festival . This is an event to remember with over 250 musicians, dancers, singers, and storytellers at venues across the Island.