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File: pitredennis06-oh-stepdancing_M.mp3

Speakers:

DP – Dennis Pitre

KP – Curator Ken Perlman

KP: You were saying that the tempos, the speed that the people wanted the music for step dancing was a little bit slower then?

DP: Not too fast, they'd always tell you

File: cheveriecharles06-oh-womansrole-M.mp3

Speakers:

CC – Fr. Charlie Cheverie

KP – Curator Ken Perlman

KP: Why do suppose there are more girls than boys excelling at the fiddle, or getting serious about the fiddle.

CC: I don't know what the demographics of

File: chaissonyoungpeter-oh-weddingreeldemo_M.mp3

Speakers:

PC – "Young Peter" Chaisson

KP – Curator Ken Perlman

PC: That's the first tune that used to be played at a wedding, fifty, sixty years ago around here. And they always hired the fiddler before they got the date of the

File: macdonaldpaul-oh-gettingstarted_M.mp3

Speakers:

PM – Paul MacDonald

KP – Curator Ken Perlman

PM I played classical music for probably three years I guess it was, I quit when I was 12. I told my parents, "OK, no more classical violin. But I think I want to play fiddle

File: doucettevictor06-oh-fathersrole_M.mp3

Speakers:

VD – Victor Doucette

Victor: I was in Ontario for a few years and then started to play it [the fiddle] up there again and started to fool around with it. But then when I got home and got married in the late 70s, then

File: arsenaultrobert-oh-joebibiennefamily_M.mp3

Speakers

RA: Robert Arsenault

KP: Curator Ken Perlman

RA I never saw my grandfather play too much. But he's sort of still like known like his name was Joe Bibienne -- his name was Joe Bibienne -- because there was a whole bunch

File: cheverieomar06-oh-capebretonradio_fitzgerald_M.mp3

Speakers:

OC – Omar Cheverie

KP – Curator Ken Perlman

OC: I can remember the first radio that we had in our neighborhood. Our next door neighbor had a radio.

KP: Was that one of those big battery radios