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File: lowejudy06-oh-gettingstarted_M.mp3
JL – Judy Lowe
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
KP: How did you get started on the piano?
JL: From my grandmother. She taught me to play organ, to chord. My Dad played fiddle, and so he would be in the room playing fiddle and
File: johnstoneroy06-oh-hisinfluence_M.mp3
Speakers:
RJ – Roy Johnstone
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
KP: What affect do you think [your approach] has had on the younger players?
RJ: I wouldn't really think personally I've had a big influence. It's
File: cranerobert06-oh-firsttune_M.mp3
Speakers:
RC – Robert Crane
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
KP: How old were you when you started to play the fiddle?
RC: I was pickin' at it at about 12 year old I guess.
KP: Do your remember how it
File: chipmangary-oh-donmesser_M.mp3
Speakers:
GC – Gary Chipman
KP – Ken Perlman
KP: Were there fiddlers in particular that you liked to listen to?
GC: Messer!
KP: Messer.
GC: Don Messer was really the only one I heard. That was only show that was on the
File: doucettepat06-oh-williethibodeau_M.mp3
Speakers:
PD – Pat Doucette
PD: There was as fiddler player up west, Willie Thibodeau. He'd play the fiddle, he'd make you cry. He was a fisherman. You must have heard tell of the mermaid. Remember the ship was going through? To me Willie
File: wilsonteresa-oh-jigging_M.mp3
Speakers:
TW – Teresa MacPhee Wilson
JM – Jenny O'Hanlon McQuaid
TW I heard my mother sayin' that, before her time, when she was younger growin' up, they had two - They called them "tuners," two women or a man and a woman - They'd sit on
File: doucettevictor06-oh-twists_M.mp3
Speakers:
VD – Victor Doucette
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
KP: How did you go about learning tunes?
VD: Just listen to Dad playing and others playing. Try to go back and figure out what they are doing. The
File: bergeronhelene06-oh-barachoisfounding_M.mp3
HB: Albert, my brother and myself had decided one year that we wanted to write a dinner theater, which is a local comedy musical production given every summer, mostly for tourists. We auditioned some local people for it. We knew we wanted Louise who is a local
File: macinnisbillyjunior06-oh-musiccareer_M.mp3
Speakers:
BM – Billy MacInnis Jr
BM: When I started playing fiddle, that was my first instrument. And then to make a long story short, I recall gettin' up one morning and finding a guitar in the house. And I didn't know my Dad played
File: smithreuben-oh-learningtunes_M.mp3
Speakers:
RS –Reuben Smith
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
RS Learning tunes? Well, I...
KP Did you just get them in your head?
RS Yeah, I just get them in my head. I used to go to the dances and that, and if somebody played
File: macdougallherb06-oh-houseparties_M.mp3
Speakers:
HM – Herb MacDougall
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
HM: We would have what we'd call house parties
KP: At your house?
HM: At our house, yes. So my mother would probably prepare for a day or
File: macleandanny-oh-goodfiddler_M.mp3
Speakers:
DM – Danny MacLean
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
KP: what do you think makes a good fiddler? If you hear a fellow play, what about his music would stand out for you?
DM: What do you think makes him a good fiddler?
File: arsenaultlouise06-oh-acadiansyncopation_M.mp3
Speakers
LA: Louise Arsenault
KP: Ken Perlman
LA: When you do the shuffle it's like two up bows in a row.
KP: Can you take your fiddle and illustrate that
LA: I sure can,
File: gaudetdavid06-oh-gettingstarted_M.mp3
Speakers:
DG – David Gaudet
RG – Robert Gallant
KP- Curator Ken Perlman
KP: How did you yourself learn to play?
DG: I learned pretty well on my own.
RG: His brother kicked
File: arsenaultrobert06-oh-futureofmusic.mp3
Speakers:
RA-Robert Arsenault
RA:Tthis whole idea of where is it [Island fiddling] going and how far has it come. When you take it out of the kitchen and put it on the stage then you're getting into a whole new set of things. So one of the