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File: raffertyervin06-oh-wedding_M.mp3
Speakers:
ER – Ervan Rafferty
ER: Weddings, there was always music at weddings. And if you were lucky enough to get a violin player that wasn't too far away, he was in great demand, because there wasn't that many violin players like there are today
File: arsenaultrobert06-oh-professionalization_M.mp3
Speakers:
RA: Robert Arsenault
KP: Ken Perlman
RA: In terms of where's the music going .We were talking last time that traditional music was essentially through kitchen parties in the home, sometimes at the
File: chappellella06-oh-farmlife_M.mp3
Speakers:
EC – Ella Chappell
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
EC: We had no pump in the house; we had it outside and we had to pump the water and take it in. And then we had the old range stove and there was a big tank on the side which holded
File: chaissonkevin-oh-pnoruns.mp3
Speakers:
KC — Kevin Chaisson
KC It's always in the background with the fiddle. The fiddle is — Stands out, and the piano is always in the background. But the thing that I like to do is — I don't even know what you call it. It's kinda like maybe a chord
File: gauthierjohn06-oh-houseparties_fights_M.mp3
Speakers:
JG – John Gauthier
ID – Ivan Day
KP: Curator Ken Perlman
KP: Did they have house parties?
JG: Oh very much so, my earliest dances I played were house dances.
File: doironpeter-oh-housedances_M.mp3
Speakers:
PD – Peter Doiron
PD: There'd be house dances back then mostly. And if there were tea parties or picnics, they would have a stage outside where they would, I think,
charge so much to get on the stage. And they would dance
File: dockendorffharold06-oh-playingfordances_M.mp3
Speakers:
HD – Harold Dockendorff
KP: Did your parents play music at all?
HD: No. There was no music in the family, except my youngest brother he learned to play the Hawaiian guitar with the steel bar. And I
File: cheverieomar06-oh-neilcheverie_M.mp3
Speakers:
OC – Omar Cheverie
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
OC: Well, in his time everybody thought he was exceptional because he seemed to be a bit above the rest. He could cut and do things with the bow that most other fiddlers around
File: macleanclarence06-oh-learningtunes_M.mp3
Speakers:
CM – Clarence MacLean
KP: How did you go about learning tunes? Did you have them in your head?
CM: Yeah.
KP: Some fiddlers said they'd wake up in the middle of the night…