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File: cheveriecharles06-oh-future_M.mp3
Speakers:
CC – Fr. Charles Cheverie
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
CC: I think it's going to flourish. There's enough interest in younger players that they will develop. Again, you're going to get all kinds of players that will play at it as
File: macdonaldfaber-oh-foundingfiddlerssociety_M.mp3
Speakers:
FM – Rev. Faber MacDonald
FM I simply got the inspiration or the idea one day that it might be a good idea to bring the fiddlers together, to bring together as many fiddlers as we could find that we knew played at
File: macleandanny-oh-houseparties_M.mp3
Speakers:
DM – Danny MacLean
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
KP: How often would they be having house parties in the Eldon area when you were growing up?
DM: Well there was pretty near always a party somewhere pretty near
File: morrisseyjohnny-oh-lemjay_bonaparte_M.mp3
Speakers:
JM – Johnny Morrissey
JM There was an old fellow from Mt. Stewart, Lem Jay, did you hear tell of him? And every New Years he'd go into Charlottetown – When radios came out first, it was a long time ago, he'd go into
File: macinnisbillysenior06-oh-declinesqdances_M.mp3
Speakers:
BM – Billy MacInnis Sr.
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
BM:A lot of them dances was just a fiddle and a piano: not even vocalists, and you could in them days put 100 to 150 people in a hall just with a fiddle
File: doucettepat06-oh-musichome_M.mp3
Speaker:
PD – Pat Doucette
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
KP: Were you born on a farm?
PD: No, a little fishing village. Dad used run the Post Office; he worked the lumber woods. We had guitars in the house, and one of my brothers he