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File: macdonaldpaul-oh-hardvibrato_M.mp3
Speakers:
PM – Paul MacDonald
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
PM: But the most common one used is vibrato in Scottish music. That's the most common.
KP: Explain...
PM: That's just the classical
File: swensonamy06-oh-fiddlersgrandkids_M.mp3
Speaker: Amy Swenson
AS: I would say at least half of the students I teach have fiddlers in their family background, somewhere. And it's often their grandparents or great grandparents. And the fiddling skipped their parents' generation. But the
File: arsenaultlouise-oh-musichome_M.wav
Speakers:
LA-Louise Arsenault
KP-Curator Ken Perlman
LA: We never had a television for a while there, so there wasn't very much to do, I guess. So in the evenings we would, we only had the lamp, we never had the
File: cheveriecharles-oh-foundingfiddlerssociety_contests_M.mp3
Speakers:
CC – Fr. Charles Cheverie
In 1975, Faber MacDonald, the priest for our diocese, along with Joe Chaisson –And Joe and Fr. Faber wrote to all the fiddlers they knew at that time on the Island to gather at St.
File: quinnmerlin-oh-stoppingwork_M.mp3
Speakers:
MQ – Merlin Quinn
MQ: Somebody might come in with a fiddle if they ever did. My father loved the fiddle. So if anybody ever came in that could play fiddle, it just stopped everything right off. That was the end of the work, we all went
File: westprincefiddlers-oh-olddays_fights_M.mp3
Seated L-R:
JA: Jack Arbing
GO: George O'Connor
ER: Elmer Robinson
DR: Dorothy Dalton Rogers]
KP: Curator Ken Perlman
Speakers:
JA Used to be great fights at the dances.
File: doironpeter-oh-stepdancing_M.mp3
Speakers:
PD – Peter Doiron
KP – Ken Perlman
PD Our house if you can imagine it, is a very small hut, or bungalow I suppose you'd call it, -- a very small place but it would literally be filled with people from the village or
File: macinnislargus-oh-gaelic_M.mp3
Speakers:
LM – Largus MacInnis
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
LM I remember my two grandmothers; they spoke Gaelic a lot.
KP Yes.
LM There was an old lady; used to live in Munns Road. She'd walk
File: hallidayjimmy-oh-lazyfiddlers_M.mp3
Speakers:
JH: Jimmy Halliday
EM: Eddie Martin
KP: Curator Ken Perlman
JH At that time a lot of them weren't much good for anything else for some reason or another. They were handy to have around for a house
File: johnstoneroy06-oh-fiddlingin70s_M.mp3
Speakers:
RJ – Roy Johnstone
KP: Curator Ken Perlman
RJ: I moved here in '78, yeah.
KP: What was the state of Island fiddling [then]?
RJ: Coming from Winnipeg where there wasn't
File: wightelliott-oh-donmesser_M.mp3
Speakers:
EW – Elliott Wight
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
EW That's right. At that time we had no electricity in our house and we used to have a battery radio. And we could only turn it on to hear the news and to hear Don
File: bergeronhelene06-oh-barachoisappeal_M.mp3
Speakers:
HB – Helene Bergeron
PA – Peter Arsenault
KP – curator Ken Perlman
KP: Was there anything in particular about PEI music that you felt the audiences [for Barachois] reacted to?
File: gotellhugh-oh-gettingstarted_quitting_M.mp3
Speaker:
HG – Hugh Gotell
KP: Curator Ken Perlman
HG: Well my dad played, the violin. He played at, we used to have concerts, once a year there, St. Patrick's concerts: 17th of March. And they had a little
File: sheehancharlie-oh-parties_organs_M.mp3
Speaker:
CS – Charlie Sheehan
KP: What were the house parties like?
CS: Oh, they were good. Just a bunch would gather, a bunch of boys and girls and get into a house and dance to about twelve or one o'clock at night
File: chaissonjj06-oh-fiddlingsurvival_M.mp3
Speakers
JC – JJ Chaisson
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
JC: There's an awful lot of people playing fiddle now, than there was five or ten years ago, 15 years ago. There's an awful lot of young people that have shown interest, fiddle