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Transcript of Joke about priests and fiddlers

Type: Text
Abstract:
  • Abstract:

    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

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    Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral History Transcripts
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    House parties around Eldon

    Type: Audio non-musical
    Contributors: Interviewee: Jimmy Halliday, Recordist: Ken Perlman
    Abstract:
  • Abstract:How the word went around; people would sit around and talk at first, then the dance would start; then lunch and dance some more; more sociability then than now what with cars, TVs, telephones, etc.
  • Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
    oral history

    His neighbors lose interest in traditions

    Type: Audio non-musical
    Contributors: Interviewee: Ervin Rafferty, Recordist: Ken Perlman
    Abstract:
  • Abstract:House parties started to decline after the war; the mood of the younger people was different after the war
  • Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
    oral history

    Youngsters not exposed to old-timers

    Type: Audio non-musical
    Contributors: Interviewee: Sheila MacKenzie FitzPatrick, Recordist: Ken Perlman
    Abstract:
  • Abstract:Young fiddlers not getting enough exposure to older players; audience needs more singing now; there's less fiddling at the ceilidhs
  • Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
    oral history transcript

    Transcript of Step-dancing at house parties

    Type: Text
    Abstract:
  • Abstract:

    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

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    Transcript of Fiddling in the family

    Type: Text
    Abstract:
  • Abstract:

    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

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    Transcript of Playing at a wedding

    Type: Text
    Abstract:
  • Abstract:

    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

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    From dance fiddling to stage performance

    Type: Audio non-musical
    Contributors: Interviewee: Robert Arsenault, Recordist: Ken Perlman
    Abstract:
  • Abstract:Where's the music going, professionalization; out of the kitchen and on to the stage
  • Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
    oral history transcript

    Transcript of Cuts explained

    Type: Text
    Abstract:
  • Abstract:

    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

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    Transcript of Effects of TV and pop culture

    Type: Text
    Abstract:
  • Abstract:

    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

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    Transcript of How Albert got started

    Type: Text
    Abstract:
  • Abstract:

    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

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    Transcript of Pressures on young fiddlers to quit

    Type: Text
    Abstract:
  • Abstract:

    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

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    Band paid in ducks, not bucks.

    Type: Audio non-musical
    Contributors: Interviewee: Wilfred Gotell, Recordist: Ken Perlman
    Abstract:
  • Abstract:Paid in kind with Muscovy ducks
  • Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
    oral history

    Fiddling passed down in families

    Type: Audio non-musical
    Contributors: Interviewee: Danny MacLean, Recordist: Ken Perlman
    Abstract:
  • Abstract:Got to have music in you; families with music in them go through the centuries; fiddlers should go own way and not try to copy someone else
  • Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
    oral history

    Chaisson brothers are mentors

    Type: Audio non-musical
    Contributors: Interviewee: Paul MacDonald, Recordist: Ken Perlman
    Abstract:
  • Abstract:Chaissons brought him into the fold
  • Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories

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