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File: cheveriecharles06-oh-singingstrings_M.mp3
Speakers:
CC – Fr. Charles Cheverie
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
CC: On PEI in the last 10, 15 years – Was John and Jan Clemmens around when you were here before?
KP: Yes, Singing Strings?
CC:
File: quinnmerlin-oh-gettingstarted_M.mp3
Speaker:
MQ – Merlin Quinn
MQ: It was the thing. It just simply seemed to me to be the thing to be able to do. It was so great! I could whistle and I could jig, and I could sing and so could my father, as I said, was a good
File: mackenziesheila06-oh-whymorewomanfiddling_M.mp3
Speakers:
SM –Sheila MacKenzie
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
SM: I guess it had a lot to do with – It was just a changing world. Women progressed in every area with equality. So they were doing more, and it was accepted more. And
File: mcquaidjenny-oh-musicinhome_M.mp3
Speakers:
JM — Jenny O'Hanley McQuaid
TW — Teresa MacPhee Wilson
JM In those times, I remember — JD MacAdam and Chester played the organ, and JD played the fiddle and Albina stepdanced, she was a real good step dancer: a woman, Albina
File: morrisonrita-oh--womanfiddling_M.mp3
Speakers:
RM – Rita Morrison
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
RM But they weren't encouraged as much maybe, were they?
KP I don't know! What do you think?
RM Well, it's like everything else now. There'
File: macdonaldjoe-oh-nellybanks.mp3
Speakers:
JM – Joe MacDonald
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
JM: It was dry then, dry as could be. But there was a few years later then the rum started to come in. Capt. Dicks used to be up here with the Nellie J. Banks.
KP: I
File: myersfenner06-oh-gettingstarted_M.mp3
Speakers:
FM – Fenner Myers
JD – Jim Dobson
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
KP: Was there music in your house when you were growing up?
FM: Yeah
KP : What kind of music was there?
File: cranerobert06-oh-fiddlerspay_M.mp3
Speakers:
RC – Robert Crane
RC: I played with my Dad for a lot of weddings. Oh, the old fashioned weddings was great. One weddin' him and I played when I was only young. And he was rakin' hay with the old horse and rake, and I was kylin' hay in
File: mcpheehugh06-oh-familyorigins_M.mp3
Speakers:
HM – Hughie McPhee
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
HM: I guess it started, probably started when Wolfe was in Quebec. In Wolfe's Army, they had a pipe regiment and my great, great uncle was a piper there with him. His nephew, Archie
File: macdonaldfrancis-oh-musicinfamily_M.mp3
Speakers:
FM – Francis MacDonald
FM My father's family, it was his mother that actually taught him how to play. And it was in her side of the family, the MacDonalds on her side of the family that were the musicians more so than my father'
File: macdougalljim06-oh-parishpicnics_M.mp3
Speakers:
JM – Jim MacDougall
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
JM: All the country schools used to have dances in the summertime to raise money for to support the schools. I played for quite a few of those.
KP: Who were