The Band Played On

On our first full day in Nova Scotia, music found us— a noon hour concert at the Tidal Bore in Truro, and later in Antigonish an outdoor ceilidh whose fiddle and short pipe reels, jigs, and airs had my Scottish toes a tapping.

The ceilidh was hosted at a repurposed wooden train station that has been converted into a museum. During one set of Scottish reels we heard the not so distant blare of a train horn and soon a locomotive and rails cars were rumbling by not more than 20 yards from the audience. The band played on … at least for a wee bit.Read more