lazy no-gooders

File: princecountyfiddlers-oh-womenfiddling_M.mp3

Speakers:

GB – Glenna Bowness

KP – Curator Ken Perlman

KP: WE have noticed that women were under-represented in the ranks of. What was your sense growing up about women and fiddling?

GB: I think fiddle was considered a man's instrument. It was just men that played before. Even the good fids years back were considered scum, you know. They fiddled all night and drank and then they couldn't work the next day so they were counted as no-gooders (laughter)

KP: What community did you grow up in?

GB: I grew up in Kensington. It was my parents talked like that and they come from Darnley.

KP: So you think that many women were deterred by this general feeling about fiddlers?

GB: I don't think they ever really tried to play fiddle. None that I ever heard