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oral history

Getting started; playing for dances

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
    music

    Matthew's Jig / Smackenzie Jig 2

    Type: Audio musical
    Contributors: Musician: Sheila MacKenzie FitzPatrick, Recordist: Ken Perlman
    Abstract:
  • Abstract:Unaccompanied
  • Collection: Bowing Down Home Music Collection
    oral history

    Now more women play than men

    Type: Audio non-musical
    Contributors: Interviewee: Sheila MacKenzie FitzPatrick, Recordist: Ken Perlman
    Abstract:
  • Abstract:More women fiddling today: women progressed in every area: nowadays there are more fiddles because women naturally are a little more musical, are good keepers of the music; and most of the stepdancers are female today
  • Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories

    MacKenzie, Sheila

    Type: Photograph
    Contributors: Depicted: Sheila MacKenzie FitzPatrick
    Abstract:
  • Abstract:Sheila MacKenzie, 2006
  • Collection: Bowing Down Home Images, Roll 05 - Negatives, 2006
    music

    Johnny Muise's Reel / December 2nd

    Type: Audio musical
    Contributors: Musician: Sheila MacKenzie FitzPatrick, Recordist: Ken Perlman
    Abstract:
  • Abstract:Unaccompanied
  • Collection: Bowing Down Home Music Collection
    music

    SMackenzie Strathspey 4 / SMackenzie Reel 5 / SMackenzie Reel 6

    Type: Audio musical
    Contributors: Musician: Sheila MacKenzie FitzPatrick, Recordist: Ken Perlman
    Abstract:
  • Abstract:Unaccompanied
  • Collection: Bowing Down Home Music Collection
    music

    SMackenzie Strathspey 11 / SMackenzie Strathspey 12 (strathspey) / Dinky's Reel / SMackenzie Reel 13 / Mortgage Burn

    Type: Audio musical
    Contributors: Musician: Sheila MacKenzie FitzPatrick, Recordist: Ken Perlman
    Abstract:
  • Abstract:Unaccompanied
  • Collection: Bowing Down Home Music Collection
    oral history

    Women not encouraged to play

    Type: Audio non-musical
    Contributors: Interviewee: Sheila MacKenzie FitzPatrick, Recordist: Ken Perlman
    Abstract:
  • Abstract:She got no resistance because Natalie MacMaster was becoming well known; it was more accepted. In the past women weren't encouraged to play
  • Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories

    Rollo Bay Festival, 1991

    Type: Photograph
    Contributors: Depicted: Sheila MacKenzie FitzPatrick, Depicted: Kevin Chaisson
    Abstract:
  • Abstract:Kevin Chaisson (piano) accompanies students from Rollo Bay Fiddle Program at Rollo Bay Festival, 1991; Sheila MacKenzie is immediately to Chaisson's right
  • Collection: Bowing Down Home Images, Rollo Bay Festival, '91, Rollo Bay Festival, '91 - Slides, 1991
    oral history

    Youngsters not exposed to old-timers

    Type: Audio non-musical
    Contributors: Interviewee: Sheila MacKenzie FitzPatrick, Recordist: Ken Perlman
    Abstract:
  • Abstract:Young fiddlers not getting enough exposure to older players; audience needs more singing now; there's less fiddling at the ceilidhs
  • Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories

    Sheila MacKenzie plays Johnny Muise's Reel & December 2nd, 2006

    Type: Video recording
    Contributors: Musician: Sheila MacKenzie FitzPatrick, Recordist: Ken Perlman
    Abstract:
  • Abstract:Unaccompanied
  • Date Recorded: 2006
    Collection: Bowing Down Home Video Snippets

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