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File: leckyharry06_withrcook-oh-weddings_dances_M.mp3

Speakers:

HL – Harry Lecky

RC – Roland Cook

KP – Curator Ken Perlman

HL: Yhe weddings, at our church it'd be in the morning, and generally a party that night

KP: What was the party

File: morrisseyjohnny-oh-gettingstarted_M.mp3

Speakers:

JM – Johnny Morrissey

KP – Curator Ken Perlman

KP: How old were you when you took up the fiddle?

JM Oh I guess I was about 15 or 16. I've been playing that long and [inaudible]. I played for the first dance in Iona

File: farrellleo06-oh-gettingstarted_M.mp3

Speakers:

LF – Leo Farrell

KP – Curator Ken Perlman

LF: Well I'll tell you, my mother was a Woods from Miscouche. And after church – we're Catholics, I don't know what you are but it don't make no difference anyhow. After

File: jonesandrew-oh-steannechanges_M.mp3

Speakers:

AJ – Andrew Jones

KP – Curator Ken Perlman

KP That's a very nice version of that tune.

AJ Yeah? We used to play [it] the old way -- I mean when it was first written it was kind of a …

File: smithtony06-oh-steannetwists_M.mp3

Speakers:

TS – Tony Smith

KP – Curator Ken Perlman

KP: A lot of fiddlers have commented about – That no two fiddlers play…

TS: The same.

KP: They might play the tunes the same way but they all

File: macdonaldhilda-oh-jimmysimmons_M.mp3

Speakers:

HM – Hilda MacPhee MacDonald

GM – George MacPhee (Hilda's nephew)

KP – Curator Ken Perlman

HM: Oh Jimmy Simmons, he was the best fiddler that ever was heard of I suppose, anywheres around. Yeah. Oh my God he was great