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File: morrisseyjohnny-oh-learningtunes_M.mp3
Speakers
JM – Johnny Morrissey
JM The way I'd picked up tunes, I'd go to a dance, I'd hear a tune that I liked. And I'd take particular notice to that tune. And then when I'd go home I'd go to bed and the tune would be still floating
File - sonierervan-oh-gettingstarted_M.mp3
Speakers:
ES – Ervan Sonier
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
ES Two pieces of stick, and I used to – I'd take them and go through the motions of tuning the fiddle and all. They used to get a great kick I remember. They'd be back watching me
File: macdonaldpaul-oh-slowgrace_M.mp3
Speakers:
PM – Paul MacDonald
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
PM: The other type which is considered a grace note in fiddle music but I think in guitar music it's most often referred to as a hammer-on…
KP: Like a slow grace
banksreg06-oh-changesfidmusic_M.mp3
Speakers:
RB – Reg Banks
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
RB: There's an awful lot of the old-time tunes you don't hear the younger people playing at all. They play more waltzes and more songs and this kind of thing, but the real old tunes you don't
File: mackenziesheila06-oh-gettingstarted_M.mp3
Speakers:
SM – Sheila MacKenzie
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
SM: I started step-dancing probably – I know I was 5, and that sort of came – Again the music was always on the radio or a record would be on and I would try to dance. Then I
File: wedgeclifford-oh-songorigins_M.mp3
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CW – Clifford Wedge
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
CW: My Dad and so many other people would go to the woods in the wintertime. And they'd always bring songs home.
KP: From the wood!
File: cheveriecharles-oh-rolewithfidsociety_M.mp3
Speakers:
CC - Fr. Charlie Cheverie
CC: Getting back to our friend Joe Chaisson. Joe died in 1981 in Rollo Bay. I went to the funeral, and the pastor at the time knowing my relationship to the Chaisson family asked me if I wanted to
File: farrellleo06-oh-liquor_M.mp3
Speakers:
LF – Leo Farrell
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
LF: There was lots of liquor on the Island, but no bars like there is today.
KP: I understand there was prohibition for a long time.
LF
File: hughesemmett06-oh-weddings_M.mp3
Speakers:
EH – Emmett Hughes
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
EH: Back then all the weddings were at home, and it was a big deal. The weddin' part was an odd time in the house too, but most of the time it was in the church. But then
File: mcpheehugh-oh-gettingstarted_M.mp3
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HM – Hughie McPhee
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
KP How old were you before you started playing a lot?
HM Oh I must've been 25 or so. Like I said before, there was nobody to play for dances and they
File: leardwarren92-oh-flourmill_M.mp3
Speakers:
WL – Warren Leard
KP: 1925. And I was told you own a mill, a flour mill.
WL: Yes, I have the only mill left on Prince Edward Island. That's a custom flour mill. We do grinding for the farmers, and I'm the third generation. My
File: chaissonkevin-oh-joepetechaisson_M.mp3
Speakers:
KC – Kevin Chaisson
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
KP: Why was it that your family in particular took it upon itself to, almost single-handedly…
KC: Well, I wouldn't say that, just the thing is, I wish you
arsenaultrobert06-oh-livingfrommusic_M.mp3
Speakers
RA- Robert Arsenault
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
RA: There's an attachment to traditional music with PEI and when you get visitors from the States or wherever. They come to PEI and they want to listen to PEI music.
webstercarlandjackie-oh-jackwebster_M.mp3
Speakers:
CW – Carl Webster
JW – Jackie Webster
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
CW: When people would come to the house. When people'd come in. Dad would always play the fiddle for them, day and night. If someone come along in the
File: mcpheedan-oh-origins_M.mp3
Speakers
DM – Dan McPhee
DM There was, I don't know how many shiploads of McPhees came from the Hebrides and settled here. They bought a Lot which was 20,000 acres, and that extended from this shore here to south shore just east of Souris. And there was