Inspiration

As we are easing out of the pandemic, we are anxious to reconnect with live performance, with each other and with nature. The name Stone & Sand & Sea & Sky Coastal ARTS Festival is inspired by a song written by the Rose Vaughan Trio, with lyrics by Rose Vaughan and music by Cathy Porter. The lyrics are timely, expressing our relationship with nature and the strength drawn from the sea, a predominant theme of life on Cape Breton Island.

Stone and Sand

Stone and sand and sea and sky

Rest my heart and please my eye.

I will go and not ask why

Stone and sand and sea and sky.

Early morning rise and walk

Listen to the sea stone talk

Wild geese flock above me high

Stone and sand and sea and sky.

Soon the wind is holding me

Clears my mind so easily

Open, open to the song

Wind and sea have played so long.

I am strengthened by the sea

Something broken mends in me

Hold me til the day I die

Stone and sand and sea and sky.

Stone and sand and sea and sky

I am free to laugh and cry

I feel the spirit lift me high

Stone and sand and sea and sky.