The Red Shoe Pub is a restaurant located in

Mabou Mabou is an unincorporated settlement in the Municipality of the County of Inverness on the west coast of Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada. The population in 2011 was 1,207 residents. It is the site of The Red Shoe pub, the An Drochai ...

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. Open seasonally, it has been operated by Canadian musical group

The Rankin Family The Rankin Family (originally known as The Rankins) are a Canadian musical family group from Mabou, Nova Scotia. The group has won many Canadian music awards, including 15 East Coast Music Awards, six Juno Awards, four Society of Composers, Author ...

since May 2005, and is a regular host to both local and visiting Celtic musicians. Artists such as Buddy MacMaster,

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and Gerry Deveau "Spoon Man" have played at the Red Shoe in recent years. The pub takes its name from a reel composed by Dan R. MacDonald. Though the exterior of the pub was initially decorated by two iconic red shoes, both have since disappeared, the second one having likely been stolen in September 2012.

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