Bowing Down Home Oral History Transcripts

File: maccormackfrancis06-oh-familydiscovery.mp3

Speakers:

FM – Francis MacCormack

FM: They came home from the army one time, my three oldest brothers. They came home from the Army. Of course as you probably know, a little bit of moonshine was flowin' around; they got into that. My

File: macdonaldpaul-oh-hardvibrato_M.mp3

Speakers:

PM – Paul MacDonald

KP – Curator Ken Perlman

PM: But the most common one used is vibrato in Scottish music. That's the most common.

KP: Explain...

PM: That's just the classical

File: stewartbud06-oh-dancehalls_M.mp3

Speakers:

BS – Bud Stewart

KP – Curator Ken Perlman

KP: What was life like growing up on a farm.

BS: Not that great, not easy. There wasn't a lot of money but everybody was pretty much in the same boat. We didn't

File: gauthierjohn06-oh-greatunclecharlie_M.mp3

Speakers:

JG – John Gauthier

JG: I was playing to the wedding, this was about 1946 or 47, of a cousin of mine in Rustico. I took a break, and went inside - They had built a stage out in the farm yard. I went in

File: hancockharold06-oh-familyorigin_M.mp3

Speakers:

HH – Harold Hancock

KN: Keith Nicholson

HH: Well the Hancocks immigrated up from the states. Actually my grandfather deserted off an American sailing ship in Charlottetown Harbor, and in those days

File: macdonaldpaul-oh-gracenotes_M.mp3

Speakers:

PM – Paul MacDonald

KP – Ken Perlman

Pm: Grace notes, which you've seen before is just an addition

Demonstrates Grace Notes

KP: So is it just a little cut or is it?

File: stewartarchie-oh-playinglively.mp3

Speaker:

AS - Archie Stewart

AS: You get some kind of a message from your music through the people. I've seen this happen. I've seen at a dance hall where the people would be all sittin' around and nobody would be up dancin', and the thing'd

File: mackenziesheila06-oh-gettingstarted_M.mp3

Speakers:

SM – Sheila MacKenzie

KP – Curator Ken Perlman

SM: I started step-dancing probably – I know I was 5, and that sort of came – Again the music was always on the radio or a record would be on and I would try to dance. Then I

File: wilsonteresa06group-oh-gaelicsinging_M.mp3

Speakers:

TW – Teresa MacPhee Wilson

TW: When Jim would come to our place we'd see him coming. We'd get all geared up a whole bunch of kids. "Sing a song for us Jim." First he'd say, "No!." Then, the next thing you know, "How about

File: chaissonjj06-oh-fiddlingsurvival_M.mp3

Speakers

JC – JJ Chaisson

KP – Curator Ken Perlman

JC: There's an awful lot of people playing fiddle now, than there was five or ten years ago, 15 years ago. There's an awful lot of young people that have shown interest, fiddle

File: chaissontimothy06-oh-fiddlingtoday_M.mp3

Speakers:

TC – Timothy Chaisson

TC: Fifteen years ago they didn't really know if we were even going to pursue fiddle music at all, and I think they were really worried because at the time they didn't know if it was going to keep going..

File: arsenaultrobert06-oh-professionalization_M.mp3

Speakers:

RA: Robert Arsenault

KP: Ken Perlman

RA: In terms of where's the music going .We were talking last time that traditional music was essentially through kitchen parties in the home, sometimes at the

File: westprincefiddlers-oh-foundinggroup_M.mp3

Speakers:

JA: Jack Arbing

GO: George O'Connor, Kildare Capes [fid]

ER: Elmer Robinson,

DR: Dorothy Dalton Rogers

LT: Lee Thompson

KP – Curator Ken Perlman

JA George O'Cponnor

File: macdonaldfaber-oh-foundingfiddlerssociety_M.mp3

Speakers:

FM – Rev. Faber MacDonald

FM I simply got the inspiration or the idea one day that it might be a good idea to bring the fiddlers together, to bring together as many fiddlers as we could find that we knew played at

File: doironpeter-oh-pcfiddlers_M.mp3

Speakers:

PD - Peter Doiron

KP Curator Ken Perlman

KP: Were you in on the Prince County Fiddlers right from the beginning?

PD Prince County, yes. We had out little meeting in a barber shop here when we first decided to join