File: wilsonteresa-oh-lordmacd_M.mp3
Speakers:
TW – Teresa MacPhee Wilson
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
TW Back years ago they used to have fiddlers' contests
KP Yeah.
TW And you had to be able to play Lord MacDonald's Reel before you were allowed to get into the contest . And I mean that wasn't something that was written down, but that was something that generally, every fiddler's contest – I went to a lot of them when I was growing up. Like I really liked the old time music, and my father, we used to take my father with me; I was going with Frank at the time. And Lord MacDonald's Reel was one of the tunes that was always selected to be played, by everyone. Everyone had to take their turn playing it. It was a difficult tune to play, too. If you could play Lord MacDonald's Reel they felt you could play nearly any tune.