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File: macinnisbillysenior06-oh-charlottetowndances_M.mp3

Speakers:

BM – Billy MacInnis Sr

KP – Curator Ken Perlman

BM: Oh, when I was a kid there was dances just about every night of the week.

KP: Where were these dances, what kind of places?

File: macpheegeorge-oh-oldjimcarter_M.mp3

Speakers:

GM – George MacPhee
KP – Curator Ken Perlman

KP You were telling us before a story about a fellow with one arm who used to come over to your house.

GM Oh, yeah. That was the old feller that lived over at my

File: hughesemmett06-oh-agriculturalpractices_M.mp3

Speakers:

EH – Emmett Hughes

KP – Curator Ken Perlman

EH: At that time there was as much trade as there was using money. The farmers mostly always went to Clarke [Clarke's General Store in Mount Stewart] in the Spring of the

File: chaissonjj06-oh-familyguidance_M.mp3

Speakers:

JC – JJ Chaisson

KP: Curator Ken Perlman

JC: All of our aunts and uncles and cousins always encouraged each other. But at the end of the day it's what we wanted to do. We had lots of suggestions B I took lots of

File: mcquaidjenny-oh-consolidation_M.mp3

Speakers

JM — Jenny O'Hanley McQuaid

KP — Curator Ken Perlman

KP: When did they go from the old district schools — And I guess every community is actually a school district — Is that the way it works out?

File: macleandanny-oh-partieshome_M.mp3

Speakers:

DM – Danny MacLean

KP – Curator Ken Perlman

KP: When you were a kid, or a "young fellow" as they say up here, did you have parties in the house just among yourselves where you were playing music at night?

DM:

File: rossfamilyband06-oh-bandhistory_M.mp3

Speakers:

JR – Jonathan Ross

JR: This was when Danielle was first learning the fiddle, so she gradually worked her way into this dance show on the fiddle, more than just dancing. And I was already in the show as a side act with piano stuff,

File: webstercarlandjackie06-oh-jackwebster_M.mp3

Speakers

JW – Jackie Webster

CW – Carl Webster

MQ – Merlin Quinn

KP – Curator Ken Perlman

KP: One of you mentioned that that Jack Webster only played with three fingers.

JW: He got this finger

File: pitredennis06-oh-firstfiddle_M.mp3

Speakers:

DP – Dennis Pitre

DP: The first fiddle I bought, I was 12 years old. And it took me two years to pick up bottles in the road trying to get enough money. It was nineteen dollars and ninety five cents for the fiddle. That'

File: biggarjackie06-oh-unclesparties_M.mp3

Speakers

JB: Jackie Biggar

JB: We'd used to go out to my uncle's place there; he'd have three or four parties a the summer, George milligan, we'd go there and play probably from 9 o'clock to 2 or 3 in the morning. They used

File: biggarjackie06-oh-twists_M.mp3

Speakers

JB- Jackie Biggar

KP – Ken Perlman

JB: And You know you're doing a good job when people start playing your tune the way you play it, cause that tells you that people want to listen to your playing. If you play a tune and you put

File: jayroland-oh-hadtoplay_M.mp3

Speakers

RJ - Roland Jay

AM - Angus McPhee

KP – Curator Ken Perlman

KP Did you find that if someone could play the fiddle they were pretty much obligated to play at these events?

AM Yeah, I suppose so

File: mcpheehugh06-oh-togannyandfairy_M.mp3

Speakers:

HM – Hughie McPhee

KP – Curator Ken Perlman

KP: You told me a story about your ancestor Toganny McPhee.

HM: Oh yeah. What Toganny meant I don't know, it would be Gaelic for something, probably some kind

File: macdonaldhilda-oh-breakdowns_M.mp3

Speakers:

HM – Hilda MacPhee MacDonald

KP – Curator Ken Perlman

GM – George MacPhee (Hilda's nephew)

HM: I forgot all those old tunes: not all of them, but I forgot a lot of them.

KP: Uh-huh.

HM: Can't play

File: chaissonyoungpeter-oh-style_M.mp3

Speakers:

PC – "Young Peter" Chaisson

KC – Kevin Chaisson

KP – Curator Ken Perlman

KC We're all individuals, and I mean a teacher or whatever, they can only teach you so much. They can only show you so much, but you have to pick