Today is the opening day of the Acadian Festival in southwestern Nova Scotia in the Municipality of Clare. The two week festival runs until August 15th and celebrates the history, music and the long living culture of the Acadians since the historic expulsion,
The opening day weather is not the best with a combination of rain and strong winds trying to put a damper on events. We started out the day at the K of C hall enjoying a breakfast of blueberry pancakes, sausages, tea and juice. We finished up and were just leaving when a musical group arrived and were setting up to provide music.
We headed out to Belliveau Cove to the farmers market, which was not at full operation due to the rain. However we were able to pick up new potatoes, young carrots, green and yellow beans as well as fresh basil, cucumbers and swiss chard. With our fresh fish and scallops we bought yesterday we are set for some fine meals over the next two or three days.
The Festival opening ceremonies start at 2 PM but if it is still as wet and windy as it is now we will miss them.
We will not miss the opening concert tonight as they have set up a tent that will hold 1600 people. Starting at 7:30 PM it promises to be a lot of fun with many different groups with all types of Acadian music and dancing. It should be a blast! There are two more concerts over the next couple of weeks and we have tickets to all of them.
We will see and do a lot over the next few days. There will be fun runs, parades, bazaars, lumberjack competitions, bingo, lots of music, sand sculpture contests, quilt expo, storytellers evenings, kitchen parties, lobster clam and crab suppers, picnics, wine tasting, a bluegrass festival and fireworks to name some of the events. It is a very full two weeks of activities.
As the days progress, we'll try to keep you up to date on what we have seen and done by adding to this post. Stay with us and enjoy!
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