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File - trainorcecil06-oh-musichome_M.mp3
Speakers:
CT – Cecil Trainor
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
KP: The community was called Peake's Station?
CT: Yes.
KP: Did you grow up in a family where people played music.
CT: My
File: macinnislargus-oh-breakdowns_M.mp3
Speakers:
LM – Largus MacInnis
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
.LM An odd time the old folks would get up and they'd dance what they called a "breakdown."
KP And what was that like?
LM It was all
File: stewartarchie-oh-3mostimportant.mp3
Speakers:
AS – Archie Stewart
AS I heard an old fellow saying one time, the three most important people in the district‑‑the minister was first, the schoolteacher was next, and the fiddler was next! (laughter). That was the three most
File: lowejudy06-oh-elliottwightdance_M.mp3
Speakers:
JL – Judy Lowe
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
KP: Tell me about how got started playing with Elliott [Wight]?
JL: I went to the dance, I was 19, at the Junior Farmer's Hall in North River, which
File: arsenaultrobert-oh-fiddlersrepcultures_M.mp3
Speakers
RA: Robert Arsenault
RA: A fiddler carries his own level of feeling with him when he plays. A fiddler when he plays he plays with his body. A fiddler is a dancer and his whole entire body plays. You stop a fiddler from
File: macleandanny-oh-lumberwoods_M.mp3
Speakers:
DM – Danny MacLean
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
DOM – Donny MacLean (Danny's son)
DM: But I did learn tunes in the lumber woods. That's mostly where I did learn them. I spent a lot of time in the lumber woods.
File: macdonaldbill-oh-composing_m.mp3
Speakers:
Bm – Bill MacDonald
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
BM: [The] first of this week, Tuesday I think it was, I went out to my daughter's cottage, 25 miles out.
KP: Yes.
BM: Up near Morrell. I was
File: wilsonteresa06group-oh-womenfiddling_M.mp3
Speakers:
MW – Mary MacPhee Warren
TW – Teresa MacPhee Wilson
MW: When I got married in Montreal, Aunt Hilda she was coming to my wedding, but I didn't know she was going to bring the fiddle. Everybody who was at the wedding wre Italian
File: smithtony06-oh-dirtytrick_M.mp3
Speakers:
TS – Tony Smith
AG – Alfred Gallant
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
TS: Him and this other guy played all night at this house party. They used to have big money years ago, black cents, they were big ones.
KP
File: biggarjackie06-oh-poweroutages_M.mp3
Speakers:
JB – Jackie Biggar
KP – Ken Perlman
Years ago the power used to go off, we didn't have a – A storm, a transformer would get hit by lightning and stuff. There's be a severe storm, the power would go
File: westprincefiddlers-oh-foundinggroup_M.mp3
Speakers:
JA: Jack Arbing
GO: George O'Connor, Kildare Capes [fid]
ER: Elmer Robinson,
DR: Dorothy Dalton Rogers
LT: Lee Thompson
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
JA George O'Cponnor
File: macdonaldallan06-oh-hectorsdancehall_M.mp3
Speakers:
AM – Allan MacDonald
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
AM: And then when I was 15, we cut for the Hall, the Dance Hall we had back here – Dad and I cut the wood together one winter with the buck saw and the axe and the old horse
File: cheverieomar06-oh-gettingstarted_M.mp3
Speakers:
OC – Omar Cheverie
KP: At what age did you take up the fiddle?
OC: About 11. I tried the fiddle before that but my arm was a little too short to reach the neck. They wouldn't let me play it, you better wait
File: cousinsjohn-oh-islandsounds_M.mp3
Speakers:
JC – John Cousins
JC: Speaking of sounds, not only music of course – The sounds of the farm, the traditional farm on PEI will probably never be heard now because they were never really recorded. The sound of a team. This farm never
File: chappellella06-oh-firstcar_M.mp3
Speakers:
EC – Ella Thomson Chappell
EC: Everybody went in a horse and wagon then because there was no cars. And I can remember the first cars when they were around: or pretty near the first, I guess. I must tell you this little story. There's