Trivia Night at The Frolic
2024-02-22 20:00 - 22:00, 2024-02-29 20:00 - 22:00, 2024-03-07 20:00 - 22:00, 2024-03-14 20:00 - 22:00, 2024-03-21 20:00 - 22:00, 2024-03-28 20:00 - 22:00, 2024-04-04 20:00 - 22:00, 2024-04-11 20:00 - 22:00 (America/Halifax) and 5 more dates | The Frolic’n Folk Pub & Grill, 4115 HWY 223, Iona, Nova Scotia, B2C 1A3, Canada
Come test your wits & win prizes!
3 Rounds – 12 general knowledge questions each round.
Play solo, or form a team. Funniest team name gets showered with accolades.
Hosted by your man – Ruarí Aonghas Lonce Murphy, every Thursday Night

Céilidh Matinee
2024-02-24 17:00 - 20:00, 2024-03-02 17:00 - 20:00, 2024-03-09 17:00 - 20:00, 2024-03-16 17:00 - 20:00, 2024-03-23 17:00 - 20:00, 2024-03-30 17:00 - 20:00, 2024-04-06 17:00 - 20:00, 2024-04-13 17:00 - 20:00 and 4 more dates
Get a taste of local celtic music & culture with our Saturday ceilidhs (kay-lee).
Expect to see world-renowned talent & budding entertainers from all over our native Cape Breton.
General admission seating ranging from $5-$10
First come first serve at the pub. No reservations. Minors allowed up until 10PM

Begley, Morrison & Whyte
2024-03-15 20:00 - 22:00
Breanndan Begley and Rose Morrison met in 2017 in West Kerry, Ireland. They have performed together on both sides of the ocean including Town Hall in New York City, Newport Folk Festival, Other Voices in Dingle, and throughout Germany. They’ve recorded on Oscar winner Glen Hansard’s album ‘This Wild Willing.’
Breanndan came to Cape Breton for the Celtic Colours International Festival in fall 2018 to build traditional rowing boats for their project ‘Voices of the Naomhóg.’ Rose, as artistic creator and director, alongside Breanndan collaborated with other artists and musicians from Scotland, Ireland and Nova Scotia to celebrate language, music and dance. Their debut album as a duo will be released March 2024.
Eric Angus Whyte from North Sydney, Cape Breton released his debut album in 2003 titled ‘Always Home.’ He has lived and performed internationally and is now working on an exciting new duo project with Rose to be released this spring.
Ages 19+ after 10pm
Kitchen open till 9pm
Bar licensed till 2am

SCHALLER & HINES
2024-04-12 20:00 - 22:00
Jon Hines of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia has toured throughout Canada in his young career as a blues man. Nominated for Music Nova Scotia Blues Recording of the year 2023, 2022 blues recoding of the year East Coast Music Association and winner of the East Coast Blues Society’s “Maritime to Memphis Blues Challenge”. Jon is a board member of Cape Breton Music and an official artist of Black Mountain Picks, Godin Guitars, Wild Dog Stomp boxes. “A Pale Blue Dot” has seen radio play nationally across Canada, and internationally in UK and the United States of America. Jon Hines & Joe Murphy started a duo after a recording session for “A Pale Blue Dot”. Jon is a semi finalist in the international songwriting competition two years in a row, 2017 and 2018.
2023 Music Nova Scotia Nomination Blues Recording of the year

RG Schaller is a world class songwriter from Canada. A country boy making his way. Writing from the blue-collar point of view about the hard times, the one that got away, life and death…and the illusion of freedom.

The Once
2024-04-24 20:00 - 22:00
Newfoundland has a storied history of stunning songwriters, poets, and players. Over the course of the last decade The Once have writ and knit themselves into that story
Within the nine songs on their new album Time Enough, The Once offer some of the most vulnerable and honest material of their career. The up-tempo album opener, “I Can’t Live Without You,” reflects on women battling with self-image issues and offers wisened words to be the positive change in their own lives. The gritty guitar driven “Before The Fall” succumbs to the notion that we must accept our past and use those memories to grow. Riff rocker “Any Other Way” reflects the fact that true love accepts us at our worst but insists we do the work to be our best selves to keep it together.
On this, their fourth studio album, the band stays true to the root strength of their harmony driven sound, while extending the borders into fresh yet familiar territory. They craft a sonically understated, but emotionally fulsome sound that accomplishes what they’ve always done so well: stun listeners with what Amelia Curran calls “perfect vocal harmonies, thick enough to stand on.”

Closed for a private function
2024-05-11

Dave Gunning
2024-05-17 20:00 - 22:00
With fourteen albums to his credit, there’s no denying Dave Gunning’s impressive body of work. Fortunately, he’s just getting started…
The Nova Scotian folk musician has shared the stage with legends like Ron Hynes, Rita MacNeil, Stuart McLean, and Stompin’ Tom Connors, and has been recognized in his own right as a master of his craft, both as an award-winning singer-songwriter and a captivating performer.
Known for his abilities as a gracious storyteller, Gunning’s knack for connecting with audiences precedes the skills and experience he’s earned on the road—It is, for him, very much a way of life. Gunning shares the same sort of relationship with music as an eagle does with the sky. From a very young age, music has been Gunning’s way of interpreting the world around him, the lens through which he sees it, and the medium by which he engages with his community.
Dave has never needed to look far beyond his Pictou County, Nova Scotia backyard for inspiration. That’s where the characters live. That’s where the stories come from. Often shining a light on the well-deserving underdogs, he’s also never shied away from tougher topics, staying true to the folk music tradition. In recent years, those topics have tended to be more social and environmental in nature – causes that he holds near and dear. Nowhere has that been more evident, or public, than Dave’s strong stance against a local bleached kraft pulp mill – a proven polluter in the community.
Despite delivering some very important messages in his songs, audiences should also be prepared to laugh at a Dave Gunning show. His banter is perfectly timed, self-effacing, and very, very funny. It’s this finely-tuned balance of sincerity and impeccable performance that makes him one of the country’s most engaging entertainers.
“Once I’m out on stage and the audience has had their first couple of good laughs, it puts me at ease. I believe that’s why I lean toward stories with humour,” says Gunning. “It makes me less nervous. I love seeing people laugh, and I love knowing that there are moments when they are feeling emotional.”
2022 welcomed the release of Gunning’s latest recording, The Same Storm. Written and recorded mostly at home during the pandemic, the album continues along a similar path its predecessors walked – celebrating moments big and small, lending a voice to the folks that need it most, and indulging in a bit of nostalgia on the way. But always with an eye toward the future and the stories it will bring.
