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Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Cosmas Sigsworth, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:When one set would be finished there would be another one waiting to get in; people danced in the kitchen and sometimes in another room as well and the fiddler would sit in between; people did quadrilles with four figures.
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Cosmas Sigsworth, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:Mother used to jig him the tunes; she grew up between the homes of two fiddling families
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Cosmas Sigsworth, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:His mother was musical and he had a great longing to play; his idol was Jack Webster; he'd bring part of a tune home from a dance and his mother would teach him the rest; how he met his wife
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories