File: chaissonkevin06-oh-valedictory_M.mp3
Speakers:
KC – Kevin Chaisson
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
KP: There are certain people like an Earl Scruggs or a Pete Seeger, somebody who starts something and you see what happened and hundreds or thousands of people get involved in doing what you started. In a way you and your brothers really got something going here and it's snowballed across the Island. How do you feel about that?
KC: If that's the case I think it's great (laughs). If it was Joe Blow it would make no difference to me, just as long as it happened. We worked at it. We liked what we were doin'. It wasn't really no big deal. We certainly enjoyed what we did, but we done it because we loved it. That was the big thing. I think I can honestly say that when that fiddle festival started [the Rollo Bay Festival], I think what we're seeing today is still an end result of that. I mean you can't go into any community without hittin' a ceilidh. You couldn't do that 25 years ago, you couldn't even find one. I mean they're everywheres. It's not all fiddle: it's singin', and guitars, and dancin', it's everything. If we made a contribution that suits me fine: it's great. But that's not – The only reason why I done it is 'cause I loved doin' it. My brothers were the same way. We're gettin' burnt out, but what the hell!