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The Events section offers a sense of what Prince Edward Island’s fiddling revival was like in early 1990s, a period w
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The recordings presented on this site were made by me or under my direction during three periods of time.
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Most Island fiddlers already had a substantial stock of tunes committed to memory before they even took up the instru
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On the appointed evening of a typical Island house dance, relations, neighbors, and friends would converge at the hos
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At one time nearly every cluster of districts on PEI was the seat of its own distinct sub-style. The South Kings sound seems to be one such stylistic pocket that survived into the modern era. South Kings fiddlers play a shuffling, lilting style that seems reminiscent of 1920s-era recordings of fiddlers from the American South. Relative to their Northeast Kings counterparts, their tempos are faster, they have a more rolling style of bow​ing, and they use less ornamentation, cuts, and snaps.
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Since the mid-18th century, an extensive written tradition for fiddle tunes has co-existed with the aural one.
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Don Messer dominated fiddle-music broadcasting on PEI from 1939 to 1958, when he moved to Halifax to establish the te
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As Prince Edward Island modernized, Town Days took on many of the functions in community life that were once the real
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When no fiddler was available, many Islanders were able to amuse themselves by singing fiddle-tunes, an activity know