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Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Harold Dockendorff, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:Used to go to school dances and hall dances, followed Jack Webster around and learned by watching; started playing at age 13 and got good enough to play at the local dances
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Tony Smith, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:His twist on Ste. Anne's Reel illustrated
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Ella Thomson Chappell, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:How the schools operated: starting up the stove, teachers produced quite a number of good scholars; she'd have one grade do a task while she went on to teach the next grade
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Andrew Jones, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:How locals changed the way Ste. Anne's Reel is played to suit step-dancing style
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Lowell Huestis, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:West Prince Party Line Show
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Ken Perlman, Interviewer: Karen Mair
Abstract: Abstract:Broadcast on CBC Radio 1 Charlottetown
Date Recorded: 2015-04-07
Collection: BDH In the Media Collection
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Emmett Hughes, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:How people dressed; shoes in the mudroom
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Dennis Pitre, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:Mother made miserable by his trying to play upstairs while she was baking on hot summer days; she complained to the neighbors but she would never discourage him
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Reg Banks, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:Decline of square dances, change from square sets to circular formation; stepdancing has changed as well -- much greater movement
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: Joseph Doucette, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:And that night they'd have a dance.
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Allan MacDonald, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:His fiddling had a great rhythm, beautiful dance music; never get tired of listening to it; the more he played the better he got
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Reuben Smith, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:Getting hold of the fiddle in his father's absence
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Largus MacInnis, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:Gives all the calls for an Island quadrille
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: Cecil Trainor, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:passing the time during the winter
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Harold Dockendorff, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:Had to literally escape out of the window at school dance
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: Stewart MacIntyre, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:Hours of work; as kids they were lent out to help the neighbors: you helped your neighbor and he helped you; description of mixed farm; selling produce to merchants for "store credit"
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Attwood O'Connor, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:All square dancing and a big supper; fiddlers had to play all night till the wee hours; a big pot full of moonshine to dip into
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Sheila MacKenzie FitzPatrick, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:Learned from the MacKinnons and at the Rollo Bay program; then started going to ceilidhs in Monticello, and dances at Goose River and St. Peters; soon she was playing for the dances herself
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Paul MacDonald, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:Compound grace notes
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Archie Stewart, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:If you played for one, how could you turn down another neighbor
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Marie Arsenault Livingstone, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:Development of regular jam sessions in Wellington
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Fred Richard, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:Playing fiddle at political meetings
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Attwood O'Connor, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:O'Connor's home was in effect the local community center; all his family played something; description of breakdowns
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Hughie McPhee, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:Being drafted in his 20s to fiddle for dances at church benefits; got fiddle in Holland during war
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Fr. Charles Cheverie, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:Good sign for the future: lots of young players at all levels; hopefully this will generate a young audience
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Jim MacDougall, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:School dances & parish picnics in Grand River; once when Elmer Robinson was playing MacDougall lay down in the grass and spent the afternoon listening to the music; next day got two shingles and pretended he was Elmer
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Emmett Hughes, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:Learning to dance as a youngster; wouldn't get into a set until you learned how; people learned to dance mostly by watching, but neighbors would help you learn; you also learned to dance at recess time in the schools
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Joe MacDonald, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:Learned first tune from Gregory MacEachern: "My head was full of music then; I had no trouble expressing it on the fiddle."
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: Johnny Morrissey, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:Lem Jay on Island radio: Illustration: "Bonaparte Crossing the Alps"
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Jackie Biggar, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:Parties of Enthusiasts at Uncles' Shed in summertime
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: John Cousins, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:Great changes in Island life due to modernization; fiddling is a way to cope with stresses of change
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Dennis Pitre, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:Music had to be a certain moderate speed for them to execute their steps; whenever it would suit them they would get up and dance; story of Gil Provost who used a circular saw as his dancing platform and could do somersaults and not miss a step (other voice heard is Vincent Doucette)
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Neil MacCannell, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:Stepdancing at house parties; each requested their own special tune; "Lord MacDonald's Reel" was most popular
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Jim MacDougall, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:They came in a sleigh to get him out of bed to play at his first dance
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Jimmy Banks, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:The older fellows might give you a few pointers if asked, but basically you were on your own; Campbell's father would tell us if we weren't playing it right.
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: "Young Peter" Chaisson, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:Using little finger for "priming"; tune used for illustration is "Smith's Reel" (accompanied by Ken Perlman, bjo)
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Leo Farrell, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:General description of local house parties
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Hugh Gotell, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:His father played at St. Patrick's Day Concerts; Hugh got his first fiddle at 16; started playing for dances and weddings but give it up during World War II; picked fiddling up again in 1970s
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Jackie Biggar, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:Dreamed he learned tune; woke up and played it "slick as can be"
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Victor Doucette, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:Learned by watching father; when Victor returned from Ontario fiddling used to be a way for the two to communicate
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Jim MacDougall, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:You'll know he's dead when someone plays the fiddle and he doesn't get up
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Jimmy Halliday, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:Fiddlers were often regarded as lazy, even if they were depended upon to provide music
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: John Cousins, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:The "gift"
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: West Prince Fiddlers, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:Fighting at the Old Dances: Fighting over a Place to Dance
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Hilda MacPhee MacDonald, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:Didn't play at dances because there were men there to play; she played on organ at the parties
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
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: 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: Danny MacLean, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:Learned tunes in lumberwoods
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Paul MacDonald, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:Slurs and phrasing
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Ervin Rafferty, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:Especially in the winter, Christmas: cards, lunch, music
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Omar Cheverie, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:Started at 11; here's the fiddle here's the bow. Treat the fiddle like a box of eggs. Would jig along with father when he played and immitate playing with two sticks. They used to have him tune the fiddle if it got out of whack.
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Archie Stewart, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:Playing lively
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Ward MacDonald, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:Over-development of ceilidhs
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Merlin Quinn, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:Organization of farms, farm size, implements and livestock: a "one horse farmer"
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Francis MacCormack, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:He'd sneak fiddle with mother's collusion; used to make fiddles out of shingles and used sardine cans as a sound board
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Elliott Wight, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:Country Showers
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Joe Albert, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:General description; parties before lent; no amplification
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Fr. Charles Cheverie, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:Drinking customs (behind the shed), fiddler had to drink in public; fiddlers blamed unjustly for violence
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Jim MacDougall, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:Wedding shower; borrowed a dancing both and set it up in yard; Elmer Robinson played; couldn't have a wedding without the fiddler
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Frank O'Connor, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:Competition for the fiddle among family members
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Emmett Hughes, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:Characteristic double stops for common keys; passages from "Princess Reel," and "Heather on the Hill" used for illustration
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Elmer Robinson, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:Uncle was Wm Harvey (the champion fiddler of the Island)
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Paul MacDonald, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:Cuts
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Joseph Doucette, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:Story of La Marmotteuse (Growling Old Man)
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Archie Stewart, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:What Stewart played for each figure of a set; tunes illustrated are: Me Love Is But a Lassie, Old Man & Woman, Jubilo, Princess Reel
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: Hélène Arsenault Bergeron, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:Origin and career of group, Barachois
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Merlin Quinn, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:When anyone came by to play the fiddle all work stopped
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Jenny O'Hanley McQuaid, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:Served as a community building and social center: dances, card parties, debates, etc.
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Ross Family Band, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:Band history
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Bill MacDonald, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:The creative process
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: Robert Arsenault, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:professionalization of fiddling in modern era
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Johnny Morrissey, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:Took up fiddle at 15 or 16; Morrissey would be en route to his grandfather's house and hear the violin played, ("I'd stand, I'd listen"); he had tunes in his head when he was quite young from jigging around the house; at one time jigging was all the music they had for dances
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Teresa MacPhee Wilson, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:Used to have tuners sit on side of the fiddler and tune with him, sometimes music they had for dancing; one family could tune and dance at the same time; Jamie MacKinnon came home from Boston and sat on her porch and tuned: you could hear it across the field: examples - "Old man and Woman" and "Lord macDonald's Reel." Children would More
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Harold Dockendorff, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:Mixed farming: what was on the farm
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Reuben Smith, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:If he heard a tune he liked at a dance he would take a crack at it when he went home; he could get them in his mind pretty easily; you learn the ones you like better; you can always tell someone who plays by ear, because you get all the extra details: they play "snappy music"
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Ervan Sonier, Interviewee: Toussaint Arsenault, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:Just like Santa with a sack of toys: the fella with the fiddle; using knitting needles on the back strings for rhythm
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Teresa MacPhee Wilson, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:A group discussion: why women were kept from fiddling in the past, why so many young women are playing now
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Jimmy Halliday, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:House parties started to go down when they began to install carpets in homes; faded away in 40s and early 50s; television ruined a lot of things; now if you go to visit the TV is on
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Ernie Gallant, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:Parties in Egmont Bay among enthusiasts
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Amy Swenson, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:How she got her teaching practice established
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Hughie McPhee, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:Forerunners: this one is the fellow who hears hammering and nails being pulled; it then turns out the neighbors had to pull out the storm door to use to lay out a body when the grandfather died
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Prince County Fiddlers, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:fiddlers had bad reputation as "lazy no-gooders," which is one reason why women were discouraged (Glenna Bowness)
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Alvin Bernard, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:Wouldn't be the in thing to be playing, the modern music was coming in, by 1960s; fiddling was for the older people; then TV came along and took people's attention elsewhere
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Wilfred Gotell, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:How TV changed things; people stopped visiting and grew less sociable
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Fr. Faber MacDonald, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:Communities take advantage of fiddlers; ask too much
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Hilda MacPhee MacDonald, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:A two-day wedding in Fort Augustus:
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Ward MacDonald, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:Fiddling now a career path; It helped attract youngsters to the instrument
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Mary Smith, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:Smith's father played mouth organ and a little fiddle, a great story teller; Leo Allen and Alphonse Gallant were the main fiddlers around; everyone step danced; there were always people coming to the house and there'd be a big meal and some music; her father used to jig for dancing some time; the Lancers was the dominant style of More
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Joe MacDonald, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:Description of carnival atmosphere at Parish picnics
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: 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: Fr. Faber MacDonald, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:Gifts are given to us not for ourselves
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: Jimmy Banks, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:Stepdancers would get up and compete with each other, several at once; best style was smooth, not too much body action: just work from hips down; in his day they only danced to reels and each dancer had their own special tune
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Jim MacDougall, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:Takes fiddle when father goes to Summerside
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: Ervin Rafferty, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:Auctioned a basket of food, had a card game and then a dance
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: John Gauthier, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:The Prince County Pioneers; where they played, how they got around
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: "Young Peter" Chaisson, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:Chaisson's grandfather didn't want any of his sons to play, but they learned on the sly
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Edward P Arsenault, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:Wife got him a fiddle when he was in 30s; how she helped him learn
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Fr. Charles Cheverie, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:Why more young women are now involved in fiddling: end of the stigma; parents are willing to support them if they are interested
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Fr. Charles Cheverie, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:on Don Messer's playing style & why many locals didn't like it
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Francis MacDonald, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:Started at 9 or 10; he liked fiddle music every since he could remember; as a small child he'd be in bed and hear the music waft up from fiddlers who visited father
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: Neil MacCannell, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:Very vivid description of house parties in his youth
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Hilda MacPhee MacDonald, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:Started fiddling at 6; her father was Roddy Joe MacPhee who took great pains to teach her to play; in particular, he showed her where to put her fingers to play the tune; she also watched him play
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Louise Gallant Arsenault, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:How sawstroke syncopation is accomplished ("Twin Sisters" used as example)
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Cecil Trainor, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:Church picnics near Peakes Station: game booths all afternoon, big supper, then the dance would start; they also had auction of cakes; there was a fair amount of fiddling and some fighting, but they always protected the fiddler
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Teresa MacPhee Wilson, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:How Teresa was discouraged from fiddling while still a girl; Hilda was the only one around who played
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: "Young Peter" Chaisson, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:Style of every player comes from within; you can tell who it is and where they are from via their style
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: George MacPhee, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:Wedding reel described; his own old time wedding described
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Roy Johnstone, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:Johnstone's influence as one of first professional fiddlers on PEI, showing that stage activity is important, taking slow airs seriously, etc.
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
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Fr. Faber MacDonald, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:contests created hard feelings among fiddlers; PEI Fiddlers' Banned Participation
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories