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File: mcdonaldleonard-oh-chordsonfiddle_M.mp3

Speakers:

LM – Leonard McDonald

KP – Curator Ken Perlman

LM Well like I mean every area had its own – I have my own distinct style of playing. I learned to play the fiddle pretty much by myself, and I'll tell you I play a lot of

File: hughesemmett06-oh-housepartydress_M.mp3

Speakers:

EH – Emmett Hughes

KP – Curator Ken Perlman

EH: Back then nobody would dance with their overalls on. It was kind of a B The whole damn trouble was, back when I was a young man was B [to] get money enough to

File: woodrichard06-oh-olderfiddlerspart2_M.mp3

Speakers:

RW – Richard Wood

RW: When I was 11 – 9 I should say, a lot of my best friends were 60 really, and 55. Every second night I'd be goin' to a place where there would be a benefit or a ceilidh and meetin' up with these older

File: dayivan06-oh-jimmybearisto_M.mp3

Speaker:

ID – Ivan Day

JG – John Gauthier

KP – Speaker Ken Perlman

ID: I was in the insurance business at the last of it, and I used to get around, and I'd drop into Jimmy's for a few minutes.

KP: Into his shop

File: macdougalljim06-oh-playsfirstdance_M.mp3

Speakers:

JM – Jim MacDougall

KP – Curator Ken Perlman

JM: I was 16 years old when I played for my first dance in Grand River Hall.

KP: How did it happen that they asked you to play?

JM: That

File: o'connorjimmy-oh-davebeck_M.mp3

Speakers:

JO – Jimmy O'Connor

KP – Curator Ken Perlman

JO Dave Beck, he was about the best when I was younger: around our place, anyway.

KP Did you try to play like him?

JO Yeah, in a way. He was good.

KP Did you ever