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File: morrisseyjohnny-oh-lemjay_bonaparte_M.mp3
Speakers:
JM – Johnny Morrissey
JM There was an old fellow from Mt. Stewart, Lem Jay, did you hear tell of him? And every New Years he'd go into Charlottetown – When radios came out first, it was a long time ago, he'd go into
File: macinnisbillysenior06-oh-declinesqdances_M.mp3
Speakers:
BM – Billy MacInnis Sr.
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
BM:A lot of them dances was just a fiddle and a piano: not even vocalists, and you could in them days put 100 to 150 people in a hall just with a fiddle
File: doucettepat06-oh-musichome_M.mp3
Speaker:
PD – Pat Doucette
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
KP: Were you born on a farm?
PD: No, a little fishing village. Dad used run the Post Office; he worked the lumber woods. We had guitars in the house, and one of my brothers he
File: robinsonpeter06-oh-ellerslieschoolprogram_M.mp3
Speakers:
PR – Peter Robinson
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
PR: I got the job as music teacher here in Ellerslie.
KP- I believe that you have started up a fiddle in the schools program?
PR
File: huestislowell06-oh-wppartyline_M.mp3
Speaker:
LH – Lowell Huestis
LH: That was on at 11:30 in the morning, every morning Monday through Friday. We would go to the country and record at some of these various talent shows, whenever there was a talent show advertised
File: morrisonrita-oh--musichome_M.mp3
Speakers:
RM – Rita Morrison
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
RM It was a family of ten.
KP Are you related to Joe MacDonald?
RM Not related, no, but we were very close friends over the years. They lived
File: gallanternie06-oh-partiesegmontbay_M.mp3
Speakers:
EG – Ernie Gallant
PD – Pat Doucette
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
They were up to three or four parties a week. One house would have it one night, then they'd take a night off and another house would have it
File: macdonaldjoe-oh-miqmacs_M.mp3
Speakers:
JM – Joe MacDonald
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
JM: Well, there was an Indian village around here, and there was about four fiddlers there, permanently.
KP: Were they Mi'kmaq fiddlers?
JM Yeah.
KP Do you
File: hughesemmett-oh-learningtunes_M.mp3
Speakers:
EH – Emmett Hughes
EH: See then, the difference [between] then and now is you could jig reels and jigs and whistle them when you were 5 or 6 year old. See, now there's no -- A young person that that goes startin' to
File: quinnmerlin-oh-swingingrhythm_M.mp3
Speakers:
MQ – Merlin Quinn
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
MQ: I can teach you how to swing in about two seconds. You don't have to have a partner. And you don't have to have fast music. The thing about swingin is, music doesn't have to be fast
File: doucettevictor06-oh-puppetmishap_M.mp3
Speakers:
VD – Victor Doucette
KP: curator Ken Perlman
KP: I know your Dad used to make a lot of things out of wood, and puppets, he showed me these dancing dolls he made [a set of dancing dolls operated by the fiddler's
File: gotellwilfred-oh-ducks_M.mp3
Speaker:
WG – Wilfred Gotell
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
WG Only one time I had resentment. I played down in Murray Harbor, a group of us; poor Fred [McCullough] was with us. There was four or us, no five of us, and we had to hire
File: wilsonteresa06group-oh-womenfiddling_M.mp3
Speakers:
TW - Teresa MacPhee Wilson
AM - Anne McPhee
MM - Marie MacIntyre
TB - Tracy Warren Burke
MW - Mary MacPhee Warren
GM - Gloria MacPhee MacInnis
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
File: farrellleo06-oh-frolics_M.mp3
Speakers:
LF – Leo Farrell
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
KP: Did they have frolics in your day?
LF: Yeah, choppin' frolics. All the neighbors go to your place and cut wood for you, eh. You maybe had an operation or
File: wightelliott-oh-dances_countryshowers_M.mp3
Speakers:
EW – Elliott Wight
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
KP And were there house parties in [your area]?
EW A lot. They call 'em around here "country showers". If a girl's getting married, they'd always have