Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
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Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Kathryn Dau-Schmidt, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:Hopes that somehow the things that kept Island fiddling special will survive
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Archie Stewart, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:Third most important person in the district
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Pat Doucette, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:Willie Thibodeau; music like the mermaids
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Jimmy O'Connor, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:Rousting fiddler out of bed to hear him play; fiddlers always felt obliged to play when asked
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: "Young Peter" Chaisson, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:Description and demonstration of PEI Wedding Reel (accompanied by: Ken Perlman bnj)
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Attwood O'Connor, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:The gathering place of the community, everyone had to make their own entertainment; a couple of nights a week they had house parties; in an average week house parties would be going all week: 2 nights at his place and 3-4 nights elsewhere
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Teresa MacPhee Wilson, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:At a Christmas concert, Teresa's father Mall MacPhee is a fiddling Santa
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Alvin Bernard, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:Every community had a fiddler or two to provide the music: most speaking here done by gtrist Edwin Simmons
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Omar Cheverie, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:first radio, influence of Cape Breton fiddling; presence of Winston Fitzgerald
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Largus MacInnis, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:Breakdowns (8-Hand reels)
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Kathryn Dau-Schmidt, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:Methods at Rollo Bay Program
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Amy Swenson, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:Fiddlers' grandkids come for lessons
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Libby Haywood Hubley, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:From the kitchen to the stage
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Leonard McDonald, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:Double stops on fiddle that are characteristic of each key, what McDonald calls "chords"
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Robert Arsenault, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:Discussion of Acadian syncopation: St Anne's Reel as an example
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories