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Developing the urge to play

Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Francis MacDonald, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract:
  • Abstract:Started at 9 or 10; he liked fiddle music every since he could remember; as a small child he'd be in bed and hear the music waft up from fiddlers who visited father
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    Dances around St. Peters Lake

    Type: Audio non-musical
    Contributors: Interviewee: Francis MacDonald, Recordist: Ken Perlman
    Abstract:
  • Abstract:House parties at his house quite often; then in the 1950s they had dances in the schoolhouses: socials and cards then a dance after; also had church picnics
  • Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
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    Fiddlers in the family

    Type: Audio non-musical
    Contributors: Interviewee: Francis MacDonald, Recordist: Ken Perlman
    Abstract:
  • Abstract:Who played in his family; had fiddling on both sides
  • Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
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    MacDonalds come to PEI

    Type: Audio non-musical
    Contributors: Interviewee: Francis MacDonald, Recordist: Ken Perlman
    Abstract:
  • Abstract:Can trace his family back to South Uist and the very first Scottish settlers on PEI
  • Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories

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