In the old days, just about every community on PEI had its legendary players. Few of them were ever recorded, and in some cases all that's left to posterity are stories about the nature of their music, their characters, or their colorful behavior. Here are several such stories.
On Jimmy Beariston, the fiddling barber of Kensington.
Told by Alvin Bernard
Told by Ivan Day
On Guy Boulter, master fiddler of southwestern Prince County
Told by Ervan Sonier
On Joe Pete Chaisson, a founder of the PEI Fiddlers' Society
Told by Kevin Chaisson
On Neil Cheverie, winner of the Great Contest of 1926
Told by Omar Cheverie
On Mel Roddy MacPhee, noted fiddler from the North Side of Kings County
Told by Teresa MacPhee Wilson
On Jimmy Simmons, legendary fiddler from Cable Head
Told by Hilda MacPhee MacDonald
On Robert Weeks, who came in third at the Great Contest of 1926
Told by Judy Lowe