File: smithtony06-oh-mysterycontestant_M.mp3
Speakers:
TS –Tony Smith
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
TS: A fellow from up Bangor way – But that feller, he - One night they were having this here contest at the Forum, they used to have a lot of them at old the Forum in Charlottetown, but it's not there now – Like the old hockey rink. So this night the bunch was there. Anyway it was almost over, when this fellow sauntered in, and he was about three sheets to the wind. He said, "I'm gonna play fiddle; I'm gonna play in the contest." So somebody said, "You can't play in the contest, it's almost over." So anyway, "I"m playing anyway," he said. He had the fiddle in a flower bag, one of them old flour bags that they used to have years ago, a white flour bag, he had that all wrapped up. So Fitzgerald said B He come back stage, he said, "Let him play," he said, "Let him play. If he wants to play, let him play."
KP: That was Scotty Fitzgerald?
TS: Yeah.
KP: So he was a judge at a lot of contests?
TS: Yeah. So he says, "OK, Jesus let him ply, let him play." Well, Jeez, when he started to play, I never heard the like, for fiddlin'. Oh, a beautiful player. He just stood up there, boy, he let >er go, and as cool as could be. And I never heard of him since. It was the first and last time I ever heard him.
KP: Did he win?
TS: I think he did, he got something. Yeah, I think he did. I believe he did. But I know he opened a lot of eyes, anyway.
