Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
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Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Sheila MacKenzie FitzPatrick, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:Young fiddlers not getting enough exposure to older players; audience needs more singing now; there's less fiddling at the ceilidhs
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Reg Banks, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:Changes in Repertoire, disappearance of old tunes; a lot of young people play Cape Breton style
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: David Gaudet, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:No one wanted to hear a fiddle when he was growing up; young people got interested in other music
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Joseph Doucette, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:And that night they'd have a dance.
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Leo Farrell, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:Wood chopping frolics with a dance afterwards
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Sheila MacKenzie FitzPatrick, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:She got no resistance because Natalie MacMaster was becoming well known; it was more accepted. In the past women weren't encouraged to play
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Ella Thomson Chappell, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:Traveling by horse drawn sleigh in wintertime
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Judy Lowe, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:Liveliness of Elliott Wight's fiddling; regular square dances in Charlottetown area
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Fr. Charles Cheverie, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:Why more young women are now involved in fiddling: end of the stigma; parents are willing to support them if they are interested
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Stephen Toole, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:Music in you; good timing; know a good selection of tunes: jigs, reels, and waltzes (100 jigs, 100 reels), fairly lively: too slow is no good, and you have to be fairly generous (with your time) too.
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Emmett Hughes, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:How people dressed; shoes in the mudroom
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Lowell Huestis, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:West Prince Party Line Show
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Marie Arsenault Livingstone, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:Development of regular jam sessions in Wellington
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Jim MacDougall, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:Wedding shower; borrowed a dancing both and set it up in yard; Elmer Robinson played; couldn't have a wedding without the fiddler
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Richard Wood, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:Father took him to meet older fiddlers and play with them; meet them also at concerts and ceilidhs
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories