They're promising fiddlin' and fiddleheads, lobster tails and Anne of Green Gables' tales aplenty at Atlantic Canada House during the 2010 Winter Olympics.
Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island are taking over the Arts Club on Granville Island for a East Coast kitchen party Feb. 13-28. Organizers offered a taste of what's to come yesterday when Cape Breton Islander Ashley MacIsaac hit the stage.
"When I was a young fella, my dad always said you really want to be good in music, watch the athletes," MacIsaac said between tunes. "Because when the best figure skaters in the world fall, they get up and they keep going."
The roster of artists will be unveiled in December.
"This is one of the few places in Canada where I can say I'm fully and completely bilingual," said VANOC CEO John Furlong. "I'd speak a little bit of Gaelic if you'd like, but I won't."
Atlantic Canada House will complete a triangle of Olympic fun on Granville Island, along with Place de la Francophonie at False Creek Community Centre and House of Switzerland at Bridges. A Bombardier streetcar from Belgium will shuttle visitors to Granville Island from the Canada Line's Olympic Village station.
