File: cheveriecharles06-oh-future_M.mp3
Speakers:
CC – Fr. Charles Cheverie
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
CC: I think it's going to flourish. There's enough interest in younger players that they will develop. Again, you're going to get all kinds of players that will play at it as they say, but I think there will be some who will emerge as good players. The styles are gonna vary because you need an audience to keep you going, and the audience of young people, I think they are going to be asking for more than the traditional music as played in the traditional way. That's not to say the traditional music cannot be embellished to suit the younger people of the day. You'll still have the older people going to [hear] some good fiddlers, but you'll also have some younger people going to listen to the good fiddlers. And they'll be the link between the traditional expression of the music and the more popular expression of the traditional music. There will be some of the more recent players [who will] take the older traditional tunes, and play them in a fashion similar to what will be attractive to the younger populace if you will.
KP: But will there be a younger audience?
CC: You're going to always have the listeners and the participators. But this is where I speak of dancing. If the dancing advances as the fiddling, yes [we will have a younger audience]. And the dancing will have to involve the younger people. So to the degree that the younger people will get involved in dancing to the fiddle music, yeah! And one is supportive of the other.
