Ceilidh Culture Tours tells the stories written on the landscape, bringing Cape Breton Island's cultural and natural ecology to life. Stories of the First People, the Mi'kmaq, and the Acadians triumph over tragedy, but mostly Ceilidh Culture Tours tells the stories of the Highland Scots. In the early 1800s, as many as 40,000 Gaels from Scotland came to Cape Breton Island. Settlement patterns preserved the social cohesion of Gaelic communities on this side of the Atlantic. For the next 150 years Gaelic was the predominant language in rural Cape Breton. Songs and stories collected reveal a rich culture, weaving Old Country traditions with New World confidence. The legacy of the North American Gaidhealtachd provides valuable insight into our Celtic ancestors. Western Cape Breton's Gaidhealtachd (Margaree south to Port Hastings, east to Christmas Island, west to Lake Ainslie) is alive with concerts and dances. These events are community celebrations where tourists are also given a warm welcome. The music, good humour, and joy experienced are the true legacy of our Highland Scots ancestors. After hundreds of years of persecution, the use of the Gaelic language has declined, and with it, the songs are sung less often, and many stories go untold. Ceilidh Culture Tours exposes visitors to those stories and songs. Geoffrey May and Rebecca-Lynne MacDonald-May are Gaelic cultural enthusiasts. We produce and host a weekly Gaelic/English radio programme "Aiseirigh nan Gaidheal" (CKJM Cheticamp 106.1 FM, Saturdays at 6:00pm), and have prepared several series of our programmes for The Highlands and Islands Community Broadcasting Network in Scotland. We are active participants in Cape Breton's Gaelic song traditions, as members of Coisir an Eilean, at milling frolics, at local schools, and for seven years hosting Feasgar na Gaidhlig (evening of Gaelic) an interactive presentation of traditional Gaelic singing. When we began to learn Gaelic, we studied Celtic culture - history, lore, and myth - discovering a cultural wealth far richer than we had imagined. The stories of Ireland's Golden Age, the Gaelic Renaissance of the Lordship of the Isles, and the stories and songs collected among Cape Breton's Gaels in recent times serve as voices across the ages, voices of the Gaels telling their own story.