Time to celebrate Digby Scallop Days
Digby festival runs Aug. 9-12
Shelly Phillips
The 44th annual Scallop Days festival lands in Digby Aug. 9-12 and event organizers have been busy all year lining up entertainment and activities for the fourday festival.
The festival kicks off on Aug. 9 with the Seaside Ramble at Point Prim. Guides will take participants on a tour of the shoreline to explore the effects of a nine-metre tidal range.
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Following this is the Queen’s Coronation at Digby Hall, at the Pine’s.
After the princesses compete in a serious of interviews and speeches, the new Scallop Day’s Queen will be announced.
“It’s been a very, very busy year for me. But, it’s been an amazing experience and I wouldn’t change it for the world,” said the 20172018 Scallop Day’s Queen Claudia Crocker.
The Maritime Pirate Alliance are coming back to the festival for another year. This time, they’re going to be doing a pirate story time for kids on Aug. 11 at 4 p.m. at the Digby Marina. After this, there will also be a pirate costume contest. The pirates will be walking around the festival all weekend.
The Aqua Golf station is back again for another year. Partici- pants have to try hitting a golf ball onto a floating platform. New this year for the first 1,000 golfers to play, if they get a hole-in-one on the first try they will be entered to win a $5,000 cash prize.
After the first 1,000 golfers, anyone else who plays will be entered to win a laptop.
“This year we decided to do a bigger prize to really get some excitement behind it,” says Cheryl Forrest, chairwoman of Scallop Days board of directors.
There’s live music scheduled all weekend, featuring many artists from all over Nova Scotia.
Many crowd favourite events are returning this year, including the scallop shucking competition, the show and shine car show, the Grand Street Parade and fireworks display.
Scallop Days began in 1975 and it’s Digby’s longest running festival.
“A lot of people who have moved away, come back to visit during the festival because it’s that special to the town,” says Forrest “I believe it’s a big part of our community. It brings people together.”