banksreg06-oh-changesfidmusic_M.mp3
Speakers:
RB – Reg Banks
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
RB: There's an awful lot of the old-time tunes you don't hear the younger people playing at all. They play more waltzes and more songs and this kind of thing, but the real old tunes you don't hear them so much. Some of the older fiddlers you'll hear them but the younger generation they don't play them that much. I don't hear the young people playing Paddy on the Turnpike at all
KP: [summary] What about the style of the fiddling?
RB: They do sound different. There's some of the younger generation they're playing more Cape Breton style. And of course the Cape Breton style is a lot different than the Island style. There's a lot of great violin players in Cape Breton, Cape Breton music is really something but it's different. Absolutely! I know I play a different style probably from most people, because it's the old fashioned way I play cause I learned to play when I was 10 years old and that's a long time ago I started playing you know. My cousin James Banks he played a lot back in them days. Him and I used to play together a lot.
