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File: cheveriecharles-oh-tunetitles.mp3
Speakers:
CC - Fr. Charles Cheverie
CC: Well a lot of the times if you go to the eastern part of the island here and ask the fiddler for the name of a tune, forget it! (laughs).. But yet, they'll have a sequence of tunes. Give one tune, and
File: maccannellneil-oh-stepdancing_M.mp3
Speakers:
NM – Neil MacCannell
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
NM They'd be requested to step dance; usually there was two or three step dancers among the group.
KP I was told they each had their favorite tunes, is that
File: robinsonelmer92-oh-musicalbackground_M.mp3
Speakers:
ER –Elmer Robinson
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
KP: Did you grow up in Woodstock?
ER: No, about 15 miles down the road here: Mount. Pleasant. Been up here fabout 20 years.
KP: Do you come from
File: cranerobert06-oh-homemadebeer_M.mp3
Speakers:
RC – Robert Crane
RC: A cousin of ours was home from the States, a whole bunch at the house, and a couple of jugs, and one feller had an old car he put it in the woods at home, [inaudible]. And he said, "Are you goin' to the dance in
File: macdonaldpaul-oh-cutting_M.mp3
Speakers:
PM – Paul MacDonald
KP – Ken Perlman
KP Now what did they show you about cutting?
PM Okay. The first thing - This is a funny story; I don't know if I should say this on tape. I went to Cape Breton when I was
File: bernardalvin-oh-decline.mp3
Speakers:
ES — Edwin Simmons
AB — Alvin Bernard
KP — Curator Ken Perlman
KP: Why did it start goin down? What would happen if a young fellow ... Let's say it was the 1950s, what would happen if a young fellow wanted to take up
File Name: albertjoe06-oh-gettingstarted_stepdancing_M.mp3
Speakers:
JA: Joe Albert
IA: Ivan Albert
KP: Ken Perlman
KP: Joe, how old were you when you started to play the fiddle?
JA: How
File: dauschmidtkathryn-oh-peerpressure_M.mp3
Speakers:
KD – Kathryn Dau Schmidt
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
KD - My one problem is about Grade 6 with the boys and Grade 8 wityh the girls you lose them -- often yuou lose them unless they're really secure.
KP