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Below are several
pages of websites that can entertain your children over the Christmas
holidays.
You may need crayons, scissors or pencils for some of the mazes and word search
games
Hour 1 - Home For A Cape Breton Christmas
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HOUR 1 PLAYLIST
– Rita MacNeil “Christmas At Home”, Howie MacDonald “Live From West Mabou Hall”,
From the Cape Breton Christmas Memories Book “Here Comes Sanny Claus”, The
Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem “The Leaving of Liverpool”, 20 Years of Cape
Breton Humour CD Hughie & Allan, Cyril MacPhee “L’Acadie”, John Allan Cameron
“The Old Woman from Mabou”, Burl Ives “Have A Holly Jolly Christmas”. Rise &
Follies (Kenzie MacNeil) “Singing A Song Of Cape Breton”, The Burke Family “O
Holy Night”, The Rankin Family “You Feel The Same Way Too”, Great Big Sea “That
Old Black Rum”, The Cottars “The Briar & The Rose”.
Hour
2 - Home For A Cape Breton
Christmas
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HOUR 2 PLAYLIST
– Barra MacNeils “Coal Town Road”, Athen Rye “The Fields Of Athen Rye”, Darrel
Keigan “Whistling Gypsy Rover, Jason Kempt “The Bungalow Song”, Bobbie Currie
“Kelly’s Mountain”, The Rankin Family “Orangedale Whistle”, Buddy MacDonald
“Getting Dark Again”, John Allan Cameron “The Four Marys”, The Dubliners
“Liverpool Lou”, Don Ho “Pearly Shells, Sean MacMullin “Barrett’s Privateers”,
Donnie Campbell “Molly Bawn”, Tom Glaser “Put Another Log On The Fire”, Stan
Rogers “Make & Break Harbour”, Max MacDonald & Sam Moon “Girls Of Neil’s Harbour”,
Tracy Cavanaugh "Son's Room".
Hour
3 - Home For A Cape Breton
Christmas
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HOUR 3 PLAYLIST
– Natalie MacMaster & Buddy MacMaster “The Stage”, Leanne Aucoin “Welcome To
Your Feet”, Jennifer Roland “5 way Street”, Rachel Davis “Dan Hughie & Buddy
Jigs”, Kimberley Fraser “The Cheticamp Set”, Brenda Stubbert “Swining On A
Gate”, Jerry Holland “Ashley’s Request”, Winston Scotty Fitzgerald “McNab’s
Hornpipe & Farmers Daughter.”
Hour
4 - Home For A Cape Breton
Christmas
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HOUR 4 PLAYLIST
– Sons of Maxwell “Oceanside Again”, Men Of The Deeps “This Town’s Not A Mining
Town No More”, Evans & Doherty “Leave Her Johnnie, Leave Her”, The Fables “Heave
Away”, Carlton Show Band “Song For The Miner”, McGinty “Fisherman’s Token”, Men
of The Deeps “We Rise Again”, Great Big Sea “Captain Kidd”, John Allan Cameron
“The Miners Song”, Bobbie Currie “The Mermaid”, Athen Rye “Paddy Lay Back”,
Evans & Doherty “Leaving Of Liverpool”, Men Of The Deeps “I’m Just An Old Lump
Of Coal”, Evans & Doherty “Drunken Sailor”, Ron Gillis “Christmas In St. Barbe”,
Frank Patterson “Away From The Roll Of The Sea”, Barra MacNeils “The Peace
Song”.
Hour
5 - Home For A Cape Breton
Christmas
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HOUR 5 PLAYLIST
– Cape Breton Live Radio Celtic Concert at Boisdale - Raising The Roof – Nuala
Kennedy, Brian O’Headhra, Howie MacDoanld, Joel Chaisson, Liz Doherty, Denis
McLaughlin, Damaris Woods, Jim Woods Ryan MacNeil. See
www.capebretonliveradio.ca (Show
#11) for playlist.
Hour
6 - Home For A Cape Breton
Christmas
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HOUR 6 PLAYLIST
– Men Of The Deeps “I’m Just An Old Chunk of Coal”, Men Of The Deeps “Cape
Breton Miners”, Men Of The Deeps “Ballad of Springhill”, Men Of The Deeps
“Miners Memorial Hymn”, Ron Gillis “Are All Fathers Miners?”, Men Of The Deeps
and the song is also called “Men Of The Deeps”, Men Of The Deeps, Emigrant
Eyes”, Men Of The Deeps “Drill Ye Tarriers, Drill”, Men Of The Deeps “We Rise
Again”, Men Of The Deeps “This Town’s Not A Mining Town No More”, Dawn & Margie
Beaton “Ray Mac’s March”, Lewis MacKinnon “Orand Cheap Bretuinn”, Neil MacPhee
“An Ribhinn”, Mary Jane Lamond “O Nighean Donn, The Rankins “Ho Ro Mu Nighean
Donn”, The Cottars “Suillean Dubh”, Howie MacDonald “The New Gaelic Song”
Hour
7
- Home For A Cape Breton
Christmas
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HOUR 7 PLAYLIST
– CJCB Song Contest “Cape Breton Newfoundlander”, Sean MacMullin “Peter At The
Meter”, Hughie & Allan – 20 Years of Cape Breton Humour CD, Shamus Kennedy
“Fishin’ For Chickens”, Dubliners “Paddy’s Excuse”, CJCB (Lloyd MacInnis)
“Sydney Fire Horn”, Shanneygannock “I’se Da Bye”, Summertime Revue (Max
MacDonald) “The Way It Is”, Jason Kempt “The Bungalow Song”, Hughie & Allan – 20
Years of Cape Breton Humour CD, Duncan Wells “The Nickname Song”, Fred Denny
“Tanks Ma Bye”, Hughie & Allan – 20 Years of Cape Breton Humour CD, Sean
MacMullin “2nd week Of Deer Camp”
Hour
8 - Home For A Cape Breton
Christmas
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HOUR 8 PLAYLIST
– Bobbie Currie “Kelly’s Mountain”, Buddy MacDonald “Farewell To Nova Scotia”,
Larry MacAskill & Tracey Cavanaugh “Whistling Gypsy River”, The Pub Boys “The
Last Shanty”, Barra MacNeils “Misty Moisty Morning”, Celtic Thunder “Mull Of
Kintyre”, Cookie Rankin “Home Again”, Darrell Keigan “All God’s Creatures”, The
Corries “Rattling Bog”, Simani “Newfie In A Calgary Hat”, Cyril MacPhee “Nova
Scotia To Me”, The Rankins “Mull River Shuffle”, Ryan’s Fancy “Squid
Jiggin’Ground”, Liam Clancy “Streets of London”, Irish Descendants “Uncle Dan”,
Wally MacAulay “Come Day Go Day Town”, Rita MacNeil & Men Of The Deeps “Workin’
Man”
2012 CALENDAR - right click and "Save" to your computer
http://akidsheart.com/holidays/christms/chgames.htm
http://www.thekidzpage.com/christmas/colouring.htm
http://www.puzzles.ca/wordsearch.html
http://www.mousebreaker.com/games/virtualcurling
IRISH & CELTIC MUSIC PODCAST - a one hour program of Irish Music hosted by Marc Gunn
POETRY - By Irish poet James J. Lafferty
JOSHUA BELL STORY - A story sent to me by Allister MacGillvray about a great violin player
WILLIAM CARSON SINKING - A true story by a surviving crew member
STAND DOWN SOLDIER - A moving tribute to our brave military member
STORYTELLER - "THE SEAL WIFE" - From master storyteller Robert O'Hearn
GHOST STORY - By Newfoundland storyteller Dale Jarvis - "The Whistling Ghost"
GHOST STORY - By master storyteller Robert O'Hearn - "The Ghostly Trapper"
POETRY
- Northside author and songwriter Ron Gillis - "Slim Pickin"