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Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Robert Arsenault, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:professionalization of fiddling in modern era
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Johnny Morrissey, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:Took up fiddle at 15 or 16; Morrissey would be en route to his grandfather's house and hear the violin played, ("I'd stand, I'd listen"); he had tunes in his head when he was quite young from jigging around the house; at one time jigging was all the music they had for dances
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Teresa MacPhee Wilson, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:Used to have tuners sit on side of the fiddler and tune with him, sometimes music they had for dancing; one family could tune and dance at the same time; Jamie MacKinnon came home from Boston and sat on her porch and tuned: you could hear it across the field: examples - "Old man and Woman" and "Lord macDonald's Reel." Children would More
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Harold Dockendorff, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:Mixed farming: what was on the farm
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Reuben Smith, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:If he heard a tune he liked at a dance he would take a crack at it when he went home; he could get them in his mind pretty easily; you learn the ones you like better; you can always tell someone who plays by ear, because you get all the extra details: they play "snappy music"
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Ervan Sonier, Interviewee: Toussaint Arsenault, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:Just like Santa with a sack of toys: the fella with the fiddle; using knitting needles on the back strings for rhythm
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Teresa MacPhee Wilson, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:A group discussion: why women were kept from fiddling in the past, why so many young women are playing now
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Jimmy Halliday, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:House parties started to go down when they began to install carpets in homes; faded away in 40s and early 50s; television ruined a lot of things; now if you go to visit the TV is on
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Ernie Gallant, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:Parties in Egmont Bay among enthusiasts
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Amy Swenson, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:How she got her teaching practice established
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Hughie McPhee, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:Forerunners: this one is the fellow who hears hammering and nails being pulled; it then turns out the neighbors had to pull out the storm door to use to lay out a body when the grandfather died
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Prince County Fiddlers, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:fiddlers had bad reputation as "lazy no-gooders," which is one reason why women were discouraged (Glenna Bowness)
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Alvin Bernard, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:Wouldn't be the in thing to be playing, the modern music was coming in, by 1960s; fiddling was for the older people; then TV came along and took people's attention elsewhere
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Wilfred Gotell, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:How TV changed things; people stopped visiting and grew less sociable
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories
Type: Audio non-musical
Contributors: Interviewee: Fr. Faber MacDonald, Recordist: Ken Perlman
Abstract: Abstract:Communities take advantage of fiddlers; ask too much
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral Histories