Fiddlers visit the O'Hanleys

File: mcquaidjenny-oh-musicinhome_M.mp3

Speakers:

JM — Jenny O'Hanley McQuaid

TW — Teresa MacPhee Wilson

JM In those times, I remember — JD MacAdam and Chester played the organ, and JD played the fiddle and Albina stepdanced, she was a real good step dancer: a woman, Albina Peters, yeah, and she — And her husband sang some. So they'd come around to different houses, and they used to come to our place quite often. We had an organ and a fiddle and that. They'd come a lot of different Sunday nights, and they'd play till the cows come home. And then they — My sister had some boyfriends, and a lot of them were fiddlers: Pius and Roddy and ...

TW You were considered to be a ...

JM And Connie Gallant lived next door.

TW ... pretty good boyfriend if you were able to play the fiddle. Welcome around here especially.

JM Gussie used to be, and he'd be interested in the fiddle. So [with] the boyfriends and the fiddlers and people comin' in, you'd have a house party almost every time you turned around.