Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
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Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Leo Farrell, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:Prohibition, teddies of rum; why he himself didn't drink much and how he avoided overdoing it
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Attwood O'Connor, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:What caused the fighting; the rough weddings at St. Marys Road; but they made sure nobody got hurt around the fiddler
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Omar Cheverie, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:That feller knows how to play a fiddle
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Eddy Arsenault, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:Fiddling on V.E. Day
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Hughie McPhee, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:Judge incorrectly awarded a prize to the first one who played "on the flats"
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Tony Smith, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:The mystery contestant who played so beautifully
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Peter Robinson, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:For a while, ran Tyne valley contest; last major contest to be run on PEI
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: JJ Chaisson, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:Fingers always moving subconsciously playing tunes; can compose new tunes out of bits and pieces of all the thousands of tunes he's heard
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Johnny Morrissey, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:He'd go to a dance, and take particular notice to a tune; perhaps in a weeks' time it would come up and he'd start whistling it; he'd have it in mind before he tried to play it on fiddle
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Emmett Hughes, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:He could jig tunes at 5 or 6 years old; his father would send him to learn tunes from a neighbor's gramophone
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Victor Doucette, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:When you learn by ear you think you have it but when you listen back it's not quite the same. Everyone puts their own thing in there. Even with tunes he learned from father, he always found that certain passages were played differently.
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Clarence MacLean, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:Often wakes up in the morning with tunes in his head; then they are gone, but they might come back later; learned most of his tunes on radio from Don Messer and Cape Breton fiddlers
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Joe Albert, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:Learn tunes before breakfast
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Neil MacCannell, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:"Lunch" (the after hours meal provided at house parties)
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Hughie McPhee, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:Toganny at the Well
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories