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File: macinnislargus-oh-gaelic_M.mp3

Speakers:

LM – Largus MacInnis

KP – Curator Ken Perlman

LM I remember my two grandmothers; they spoke Gaelic a lot.

KP Yes.

LM There was an old lady; used to live in Munns Road. She'd walk

File: hallidayjimmy-oh-lazyfiddlers_M.mp3

Speakers:

JH: Jimmy Halliday

EM: Eddie Martin

KP: Curator Ken Perlman

JH At that time a lot of them weren't much good for anything else for some reason or another. They were handy to have around for a house

File: johnstoneroy06-oh-fiddlingin70s_M.mp3

Speakers:

RJ – Roy Johnstone

KP: Curator Ken Perlman

RJ: I moved here in '78, yeah.

KP: What was the state of Island fiddling [then]?

RJ: Coming from Winnipeg where there wasn't

File: wightelliott-oh-donmesser_M.mp3

Speakers:

EW – Elliott Wight

KP – Curator Ken Perlman

EW That's right. At that time we had no electricity in our house and we used to have a battery radio. And we could only turn it on to hear the news and to hear Don

File: bergeronhelene06-oh-barachoisappeal_M.mp3

Speakers:

HB – Helene Bergeron

PA – Peter Arsenault

KP – curator Ken Perlman

KP: Was there anything in particular about PEI music that you felt the audiences [for Barachois] reacted to?

File: gotellhugh-oh-gettingstarted_quitting_M.mp3

Speaker:

HG – Hugh Gotell

KP: Curator Ken Perlman

HG: Well my dad played, the violin. He played at, we used to have concerts, once a year there, St. Patrick's concerts: 17th of March. And they had a little

File: sheehancharlie-oh-parties_organs_M.mp3

Speaker:

CS – Charlie Sheehan

KP: What were the house parties like?

CS: Oh, they were good. Just a bunch would gather, a bunch of boys and girls and get into a house and dance to about twelve or one o'clock at night

File: chaissonjj06-oh-fiddlingsurvival_M.mp3

Speakers

JC – JJ Chaisson

KP – Curator Ken Perlman

JC: There's an awful lot of people playing fiddle now, than there was five or ten years ago, 15 years ago. There's an awful lot of young people that have shown interest, fiddle

File: hallidayjimmy-oh-endofera_M.mp3

Speakers

JH – Jimmy Halliday

EM – Eddie Martin

KP – Curator Ken Perlman

KP When did the house parties start to go down?

JH When they started to put carpet on, I guess Eddie was it? No, People are pretty