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Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Fr. Charles Cheverie, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:Drinking customs (behind the shed), fiddler had to drink in public; fiddlers blamed unjustly for violence
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Jim MacDougall, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:Wedding shower; borrowed a dancing both and set it up in yard; Elmer Robinson played; couldn't have a wedding without the fiddler
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Frank O'Connor, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:Competition for the fiddle among family members
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Emmett Hughes, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:Characteristic double stops for common keys; passages from "Princess Reel," and "Heather on the Hill" used for illustration
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Elmer Robinson, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:Uncle was Wm Harvey (the champion fiddler of the Island)
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Paul MacDonald, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:Cuts
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Joseph Doucette, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:Story of La Marmotteuse (Growling Old Man)
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Archie Stewart, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:What Stewart played for each figure of a set; tunes illustrated are: Me Love Is But a Lassie, Old Man & Woman, Jubilo, Princess Reel
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: JJ Chaisson, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:Fingers always moving subconsciously playing tunes; can compose new tunes out of bits and pieces of all the thousands of tunes he's heard
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Hélène Arsenault Bergeron, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:Origin and career of group, Barachois
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Merlin Quinn, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:When anyone came by to play the fiddle all work stopped
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Jenny O'Hanley McQuaid, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:Served as a community building and social center: dances, card parties, debates, etc.
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Ross Family Band, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:Band history
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Bill MacDonald, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:The creative process
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Emmett Hughes, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:He could jig tunes at 5 or 6 years old; his father would send him to learn tunes from a neighbor's gramophone
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories