Celtic Music Interpretive Center
Anytime you are on a road signposted by the silhouette of a bagpiper, music beckons an elegant finger. Don your Scottish tam and seek this treasure: The Celtic Music Interpretive Centre (CMIC) in Judique, on Cape Breton’s Ceilidh Trail. Once you pass the waves caressing the rocks below Creignish Mountain on Route 19, watch for the steeple of a brown stone church. Across the road, you will hear the soul of a ceilidh. The license plates tell me who is there today - Rhode Island, Maine, Ontario, South Carolina, Maryland and, of course, Nova Scotia locals. The last time I was there, I was a “home from away” - my current residence in Halifax being just a bit away. As soon as I got out of the car, I heard my childhood nickname called out from a trim fellow in sunglasses sitting on the patio eating a quesadilla and an oatcake for lunch. Here, when that happens, reply by asking them how they are in Gaelic - Caimar a tha thu? - and that will give you enough time to realize who i...