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File: macdonaldhilda-oh-breakdowns_M.mp3

Speakers:

HM – Hilda MacPhee MacDonald

KP – Curator Ken Perlman

GM – George MacPhee (Hilda's nephew)

HM: I forgot all those old tunes: not all of them, but I forgot a lot of them.

KP: Uh-huh.

HM: Can't play

File: chaissonyoungpeter-oh-style_M.mp3

Speakers:

PC – "Young Peter" Chaisson

KC – Kevin Chaisson

KP – Curator Ken Perlman

KC We're all individuals, and I mean a teacher or whatever, they can only teach you so much. They can only show you so much, but you have to pick

File: macdonaldhilda-oh-womensrole_M.mp3

Speakers:

HM – Hilda MacPhee MacDonald

GM – George MacPhee (Hilda's nephew)

KP – Curator Ken Perlman

KP: And how old were you when you started playing for dances yourself?

HM: Oh, I never played at very many dances.

File: lowejudy06-oh-robertweeks_M.mp3

Speakers:

JL – Judy Lowe

JL: My grandfather was Bob Weeks, and Bob was quite a good fiddler back in them times. He lived in Winsloe and he had a big family. He played around at dances in the community and other places. He was a cheese

File: dockendorffharold06-oh-escapingdance_M.mp3

Speakers:

HD: Harold Dockendorff

HD: One night my brother and I were playing at a school dance. It got pretty wild. So it was time to go home and it was after one o'clock. I had to go outside, pretend I had to go outside

File: wilsonteresa-oh-fiddlingsanta_M.mp3

Speakers:

TW – Teresa MacPhee Wilson

KP – Curator Ken Perlman

TW: My father was Santa Claus one time, the first time I ever remember seeing Santa Claus. I had no idea who this chap was that come in. There was no radios then, you know,

File: pitredennis06-oh-familyreaction_M.mp3

Speakers:

DP – Dennis Pitre

VD – Vincent Doucette

KP – Curator Ken Perlman

KP: Did you get encouraged in your house?

DP: No, there was no music – Well, on my mother's side side, but she didn't play anything

File: baglolesidney-oh-gettingstarted_M.mp3

Speakers:

SB – Sid Baglole

KP – curator Ken Perlman

KP: What year were you born?

SB: 1912

KP: 1912n

SB: Yeah, I'm 80 years old. Just had a birthday, just gone by.

KP: Did you come from a musical family?

Name of File: arsenaulteddy-oh-glasgow_M.mp3

Speakers:

EA-Eddy Arsenault

KP-Curator Ken Perlman

You just told us a story before about about coming to Glasgow on V-E day. Will you tell us that story?

EA That was about the biggest square dance I've ever played for ... They

File: gauthierjohn06-oh-batteryradios_M.mp3

Speakers:

JG – John Gauthier

ID – Ivan Day

KP – Curator Ken Perlman

mid-late 30s).

6:50

JG: That would be around the mid 30s. Until that time we didn't have a radio. And of course with