The Iona Heights Inn

Saturday Market
2016-07-02 08:00 - 12:00 (America/Halifax) | The Iona Heights Inn, 4115 HWY 223, Iona, NS, B2C1A3, Canada
The Jillick at the Inn will play host to 8 market vendors, who handcraft and or grow their own products. We like to encourage buying local, as well as young and old entrepreneurship alike.
Details to follow.

Garnet Rogers
2016-06-29 20:00 - 22:30 | The Frolic’n Folk Pub & Grill, 4115 HWY 223, Iona, Nova Scotia, B2C 1A3, Canada
In a darkened bedroom, lit only by the amber glow from an old floor model radio, two young brothers aged 6 and 12 lay in their beds, listening to the country music broadcasts from the Grand Ol’ Opry, and practiced their harmonies. Two years later, the youngest one was playing the definitive 8-year-old’s version of “Desolation Row” on his ukulele. He soon abandoned that instrument to teach himself the flute, violin and guitar.
Within ten years, and barely out of high school, Garnet Rogers was on the road as a full-time working musician with his older brother Stan. Together they formed what has come to be accepted as one of the most influential acts in North American folk music.
Since then, Garnet Rogers has established himself as ‘One of the major talents of our time”. Hailed by the Boston Globe as a “charismatic performer and singer”, Garnet is a man with a powerful physical presence – close to six and a half feet tall – with a voice to match. With his “smooth, dark baritone” (Washington Post) his incredible range, and thoughtful, dramatic phrasing, Garnet is widely considered by fans and critics alike to be one of the finest singers anywhere. His music, like the man himself, is literate, passionate, highly sensitive, and deeply purposeful. Cinematic in detail, his songs “give expression to the unspoken vocabulary of the heart” (Kitchener Waterloo Record). An optimist at heart, Garnet sings extraordinary songs about people who are not obvious heroes and of the small victories of the everyday. As memorable as his songs, his over-the-top humour and lightning-quick wit moves his audience from tears to laughter and back again.
“Garnet Rogers is capable of awe-inspiring and unpredictable stuff – and that includes more than just music”
Resolutely independent, Garnet Rogers has turned down offers from major labels to do his music his own way.

Saturday Ceilidh
2016-06-25 17:00 - 20:00, 2016-06-18 17:00 - 20:00, 2016-06-11 17:00 - 20:00, 2016-06-04 17:00 - 20:00, 2016-05-28 17:00 - 20:00, 2016-05-21 17:00 - 20:00, 2016-05-14 17:00 - 20:00, 2016-05-07 17:00 - 20:00 and 4 more dates | The Frolic’n Folk Pub & Grill, 4115 HWY 223, Iona, Nova Scotia, B2C 1A3, Canada
Music TBA.
Get a taste of local celtic music & culture with our weekly ceilidhs.
Expect to see world-renowned talent & budding entertainers all from our native Cape Breton.
General admission seating ranging from $5-$10

Saturday Ceilidh - Mike Barron
2016-06-25 17:00 - 20:00 | The Frolic’n Folk Pub & Grill, 4115 HWY 223, Iona, Nova Scotia, B2C 1A3, Canada
Mike Barron
Get a taste of local celtic music & culture with our weekly ceilidhs. Expect to see world-renowned talent & budding entertainers all from our native Cape Breton.
General admission seating ranging from $5-$10

Breeze & Wilson
2016-06-22 20:00 - 22:30 | The Frolic’n Folk Pub & Grill, 4115 HWY 223, Iona, Nova Scotia, B2C 1A3, Canada
Breeze and Wilson have been writing, recording and playing music together for ten years. Based in Staffordshire, England, they’ve developed a reputation as a refined and extremely talented duo. They are a stellar example of what can be achieved with two voices and two acoustic guitars. Harmonically rich, musically and lyrically diverse, they invite comparison to Simon and Garfunkel, Seals & Crofts, and fellow countrymen Gallagher & Lyle. They operate on the outside edge of British folk music, unless it’s British folk music that traveled across the Atlantic to the New World more than three centuries ago. Their tastes run to Lyle Lovett, James Taylor, Guy Clark and Alison Krauss. Following two well-received EPs, Breeze and Wilson have released Oh Nova Scotia, their first full length album. Made in their home studio in the Midlands, it provides an emphatic answer to the question, who’s making music for grown-ups anymore? From the opening track, the story of their being championed by a radio show in Canada’s eastern provinces, through the beautiful and languid Waltz, to the film-noir murder ballad Beacon Hill, to the hilarious live-recording of the Banjo Song, Breeze and Wilson will hold your attention and echo in your head long after the CD finishes playing. (STAN CAREW – CBC RADIO HOST)
Have a listen here

Saturday Ceilidh - Rachel Davis
2016-06-18 17:00 - 20:00 | The Frolic’n Folk Pub & Grill, 4115 HWY 223, Iona, Nova Scotia, B2C 1A3, Canada
Rachel Davis
Get a taste of local celtic music & culture with our weekly ceilidhs. Expect to see world-renowned talent & budding entertainers all from our native Cape Breton.
General admission seating ranging from $5-$10

Saturday Ceilidh - Andrea Beaton
2016-06-11 17:00 - 20:00 | The Frolic’n Folk Pub & Grill, 4115 HWY 223, Iona, Nova Scotia, B2C 1A3, Canada
Andrea Beaton
Get a taste of local celtic music & culture with our weekly ceilidhs. Expect to see world-renowned talent & budding entertainers all from our native Cape Breton.
General admission seating ranging from $5-$10

Saturday Ceilidh - Margie & Dawn
2016-06-04 17:00 - 20:00 | The Frolic’n Folk Pub & Grill, 4115 HWY 223, Iona, Nova Scotia, B2C 1A3, Canada
Margie & Dawn
Get a taste of local celtic music & culture with our weekly ceilidhs. Expect to see world-renowned talent & budding entertainers all from our native Cape Breton.
General admission seating ranging from $5-$10

Saturday Ceilidh - Dara & Adam
2016-05-28 17:00 - 20:00 | The Frolic’n Folk Pub & Grill, 4115 HWY 223, Iona, Nova Scotia, B2C 1A3, Canada
Dara & Adam
Get a taste of local celtic music & culture with our weekly ceilidhs. Expect to see world-renowned talent & budding entertainers all from our native Cape Breton.
General admission seating ranging from $5-$10

Saturday Ceilidh - Brenda & Howie
2016-05-21 17:00 - 20:00 | The Frolic’n Folk Pub & Grill, 4115 HWY 223, Iona, Nova Scotia, B2C 1A3, Canada
Brenda & Howie
Get a taste of local celtic music & culture with our weekly ceilidhs. Expect to see world-renowned talent & budding entertainers all from our native Cape Breton.
General admission seating ranging from $5-$10

Saturday Ceilidh - Buddy MacDonald
2016-05-14 17:00 - 20:00 | The Frolic’n Folk Pub & Grill, 4115 HWY 223, Iona, Nova Scotia, B2C 1A3, Canada
Buddy MacDonald
Get a taste of local celtic music & culture with our weekly ceilidhs. Expect to see world-renowned talent & budding entertainers all from our native Cape Breton.
General admission seating ranging from $5-$10

Saturday Ceilidh - Darrel Keigan
2016-05-07 17:00 - 20:00 | The Frolic’n Folk Pub & Grill, 4115 HWY 223, Iona, Nova Scotia, B2C 1A3, Canada
Darrel Keigan
Get a taste of local celtic music & culture with our weekly ceilidhs. Expect to see world-renowned talent & budding entertainers all from our native Cape Breton.
General admission seating ranging from $5-$10

Saturday Ceilidh
2016-04-02 17:00 - 20:00 | The Frolic’n Folk Pub & Grill, 4115 HWY 223, Iona, Nova Scotia, B2C 1A3, Canada
This Saturday we have a ‘Pipers Ceilidh’ with the CBU pipe band and friends. Including Trevor Kellock, John Grant, Ryan J MacNeil and Boyd MacNeil. As well as a special performance by the CBU youth pipers.
5-8pm
Admission $5

Andrew Doyle
2016-04-01 21:00 - 23:30 | The Frolic’n Folk Pub & Grill, 4115 HWY 223, Iona, Nova Scotia, B2C 1A3, Canada
Andrew Doyle has been performing for the past 15 years all over Eastern Canada. Starting in Cape Breton and beginning to branch out to the rest of the country playing to full houses and enthusiastic crowds.
Andrew’s extremely diverse and adaptable musical style guarantees something for everyone and promises and entertaining show for all in attendance. Approachable and interactive, wherever these guys are performing it is sure to be a memorable and great experience.

Saturday Ceilidh
2016-03-26 17:00 - 20:00 | The Frolic’n Folk Pub & Grill, 4115 HWY 223, Iona, Nova Scotia, B2C 1A3, Canada
Howie & Flo

Saturday Ceilidh
2016-03-19 17:00 - 20:00 | The Frolic’n Folk Pub & Grill, 4115 HWY 223, Iona, Nova Scotia, B2C 1A3, Canada
Dara & Adam

Saturday Ceilidh
2016-03-12 17:00 - 20:00 | The Frolic’n Folk Pub & Grill, 4115 HWY 223, Iona, Nova Scotia, B2C 1A3, Canada
Donna deWolfe

Leona Burkey
2016-03-11 21:00 - 23:30 | The Frolic’n Folk Pub & Grill, 4115 HWY 223, Iona, Nova Scotia, B2C 1A3, Canada
Leona Burkey has been keeping it pretty close to the floor in the Canadian music scene for some 20 years as a singer/songwriter, host and entertainer. Influenced by the story song tradition and roots music coming from Canada’s East Coast, she has carried her guitar and notebook all around the country and back again gathering up an eclectic collection of dedicated fans along the way…with every performance as cozy and intimate as if you were sitting in her kitchen. Leona has one of those voices that doesn’t just sing the words, but draws listeners in with a subtle and honest emotional hook. A born raconteur, music is a conversation Leona loves making…life has been full, the notebooks are full and with her long-anticipated singer/songwriter debut recording, “The Margaret Marie EP”, she invites you to sit long and talk much. Or come out to sing loud and celebrate…depending on the night…
Listen to Leona

Saturday Ceilidh
2016-03-05 17:00 - 20:00 | The Frolic’n Folk Pub & Grill, 4115 HWY 223, Iona, Nova Scotia, B2C 1A3, Canada
Kenneth MacKenzie
