Bowing Down Home Oral History Transcripts

File: chappellella06-oh-districtschools_M.mp3

Speakers:

EC – Ella Thomson Chappell

KP – Curator Ken Perlman

KP: Tell me about the schools that you went to.

EC: Well the way it was they had to put the fire on in the morning. So somebody had to go early and

File: lowejudy06-oh-robertweeks_M.mp3

Speakers:

JL – Judy Lowe

JL: My grandfather was Bob Weeks, and Bob was quite a good fiddler back in them times. He lived in Winsloe and he had a big family. He played around at dances in the community and other places. He was a cheese

File: macinnislargus-oh-gaelic_M.mp3

Speakers:

LM – Largus MacInnis

KP – Curator Ken Perlman

LM I remember my two grandmothers; they spoke Gaelic a lot.

KP Yes.

LM There was an old lady; used to live in Munns Road. She'd walk

File: oconnorattwood-oh-weddings_M.mp3

Speakers:

AO – Attwood O'Connor

SB – Stanley Bruce

KP – Curator Ken Perlman

KP Can you describe how weddings went in this area?

AO It was all square dancing. After they'd get married they'd be comin home, and they'd

File: mackenziesheila06-oh-whymorewomanfiddling_M.mp3

Speakers:

SM –Sheila MacKenzie

KP – Curator Ken Perlman

SM: I guess it had a lot to do with – It was just a changing world. Women progressed in every area with equality. So they were doing more, and it was accepted more. And

File: macdonaldbill-oh-composing_m.mp3

Speakers:

Bm – Bill MacDonald

KP – Curator Ken Perlman

BM: [The] first of this week, Tuesday I think it was, I went out to my daughter's cottage, 25 miles out.

KP: Yes.

BM: Up near Morrell. I was

File: webstercarlandjackie06-oh-newgenerationfiddlers_M.mp3

Speakers:

CW: They play good, they get them yellin' and goin'.

MQ: They actually play real fast. You can put better time on it by slowin' down.

CW: You can put better time and you can get

File: arsenaultrobert06-oh-futureofmusic.mp3

Speakers:
RA-Robert Arsenault

RA:Tthis whole idea of where is it [Island fiddling] going and how far has it come. When you take it out of the kitchen and put it on the stage then you're getting into a whole new set of things. So one of the

File: cheverieomar06-oh-neilcheverie_M.mp3

Speakers:

OC – Omar Cheverie

KP – Curator Ken Perlman

OC: Well, in his time everybody thought he was exceptional because he seemed to be a bit above the rest. He could cut and do things with the bow that most other fiddlers around

File: hallidayjimmy-oh-lazyfiddlers_M.mp3

Speakers:

JH: Jimmy Halliday

EM: Eddie Martin

KP: Curator Ken Perlman

JH At that time a lot of them weren't much good for anything else for some reason or another. They were handy to have around for a house

File: chappellella06-oh-firstcar_M.mp3

Speakers:

EC – Ella Thomson Chappell

EC: Everybody went in a horse and wagon then because there was no cars. And I can remember the first cars when they were around: or pretty near the first, I guess. I must tell you this little story. There's

File: macleandanny-oh-partieshome_M.mp3

Speakers:

DM – Danny MacLean

KP – Curator Ken Perlman

KP: When you were a kid, or a "young fellow" as they say up here, did you have parties in the house just among yourselves where you were playing music at night?

DM:

File: myersfenner06-oh-gettingstarted_M.mp3

Speakers:

FM – Fenner Myers

JD – Jim Dobson

KP – Curator Ken Perlman

KP: Was there music in your house when you were growing up?

FM: Yeah

KP : What kind of music was there?

File: poirierzelieanne-oh-musicinhome_M.mp3

Speakers:

ZP – Zélie-Anne Arsenault Poirier

KP – Curator Ken Perlman

KP There must have been a lot of music around the home

ZP Oh yeah!

KP Can you tell us a little bit about ...

ZP We had an old-fashioned organ

File: arsenaultlouise-oh-musichome_M.wav

Speakers:

LA-Louise Arsenault

KP-Curator Ken Perlman

LA: We never had a television for a while there, so there wasn't very much to do, I guess. So in the evenings we would, we only had the lamp, we never had the