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Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Joe Albert, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:Emulated grandfather and other fiddlers; Peter Albert the champion stepdancer
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Teresa MacPhee Wilson, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:Aunt Hilda takes over Marry MacPhee Warren's Montreal wedding
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Text
Abstract: Abstract: More
File: macdonaldward06-oh-youngergeneration_M.mp3
Speakers:
WM – Ward MacDonald
WM: I definitely see people giving too much recognition to some of the younger kids. It's not that the fans of the music mean to do it. But I know they are trying to encourage the kid; they want to see the
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral History Transcripts
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Howard Hancock, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:General description
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Leo Farrell, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:Wood chopping frolics with a dance afterwards
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Clifford Wedge, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:People sang, played violin, square danced; mostly they'd play cards and afterwards if somebody had a violin they'd just decide to have a dance
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Sheila MacKenzie FitzPatrick, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:She got no resistance because Natalie MacMaster was becoming well known; it was more accepted. In the past women weren't encouraged to play
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: "Young Peter" Chaisson, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:Description and demonstration of PEI Wedding Reel (accompanied by: Ken Perlman bnj)
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Attwood O'Connor, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:Description of farm work: a hard struggle back in the 30s (nobody had any money); everybody grew what they needed themselves: as a youth often would get home from a dance and go right to work without sleeping
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Richard Wood, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:When he was 9 a lot of his best friends were 55 and 60, meeting up with older fiddlers; talking licks and music with them, and playing pno for them, you learned about life "get big but don't get too big…"
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Bill MacDonald, Recordist: Fr. Charles Cheverie
Date Recorded: 1987-10-10
Collection: Father Charles Cheverie Collection
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Fr. Charles Cheverie, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:Too many ceilidhs; too many youngsters making CDs and performing too soon
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Hélène Arsenault Bergeron, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:Barachois' appeal
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Text
Abstract: Abstract: More
File: macdougalljim06-oh-gettingstarted_M.mp3
Speakers:
JM – Jim MacDougall
KP – Curator Ken Pelman
KP: Now how did you get started playing?
JM: Well again, that's another story (laughs). My father was very strict with the B He had a violin and it wasn't a
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral History Transcripts
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Teresa MacPhee Wilson, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:Lord MacDonald's Reel was a qualifier
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories