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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: 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: Omar Cheverie, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:On Neil Cheverie; he could "cut," had elegant style; learned from uncle who was a sea captain out of Gloucester
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: Omar Cheverie, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:could learn an easy tune in one hearing; it would come to him a week later as he was pickin with the fiddle. Randy tells story about how an entirely different set of tunes at gig than came out during rehearsal. He would have to hear it a second time to fill in the rest of it (usually on radio). Some details would be different (if I More
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories