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File: oconnorattwood-oh-violence_M.mp3

Speakers:

AO – Attwood O'Connor

SB – Stanley Bruce

KP – Ken Perlman

KP: I've heard of lots of fighting at some of these parties. Noone ever says what anyone was fighting about.

AO: Actually, I don't think that a lot of them

File: dauschmidtkathryn06-oh-peerpressureupdate_M.mp3

Speakers:

KD – Kathryn Dau Schmidt

KD: I get the feeling there's not as much peer pressure because there's been enough young people playing that it's not looked at quite as weird as it was, in most places.

File: doucettejoe-oh-bowing,findingnotes.mp3

Speakers:

JD – Joe Doucette

KP – Curator Ken Perlman

KP: When you were six years old and just taking up the fiddle, did your father show you anything on the fiddle?

JD: NO, anymore than he told me that to start [with]

File: toolestephen-oh-dancesolddays_M.mp3

Speakers:

ST – Stephen Toole

ST: There was a lot of dances, see. The way the dances are today, they're all Saturday night dances, or maybe Thursday night, or maybe Friday night. They have their special night at some halls. Well, years ago

File: arsenaultpeter06-oh-gettingstarted_M.mp3

Speakers-

PA: Peter Arsenault

KP: Curator Ken Perlman

KP: Tell me how you came to take up the instrument.

PA: One night we were on a thing called Sea Sail, we were in in New York City. Well Dad [Eddy

File: toolestephen-oh-lawnparties_M.mp3

Speakers:

ST – Stephen Toole

KP – Curator Ken perlman

ST: And then there was another type of thing on the island here, was Lawn Parties in the summertime. Now, my father and my brother done a lot of playing at lawn parties. There'd be a

File: bernardalvin-oh-everycommunity.mp3

Speakears:

AB - Alvin Bernard

ES – Edwin Simmons

KP – curator Ken Perlman

ES: Well, every community seemed to have one or two people - if something went on in the community, they were the ones who were