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Most Island districts and towns were home to a steady stream of informal and impromptu musical episodes and gathering

In the old days, Island fiddlers as a class were victimized by pervasive negative stereotypes.

The traditional community-dance scene on PEI began to decline around the

Community dances featuring fiddling and square sets went year round in rural

In the old days, just about every community on PEI had its legendary players.

The Rollo Bay Scottish Fiddle Festival has been Prince Edward Island's premier fiddle festival – and perhaps its larg

Holding the Fiddle

To allow for less stressful bowing mechanics, many Island players

The Gift

Probably the most widespread notion about fiddling on Prince Edward Island is that t

Assigning fiddlers to stylistic groups can be a difficult task.

Fiddle Festivals began springing up on Prince Edward Island in the late 1970s and would become the major performance

This site is organized along several interlocking tracks.

In the old days on Prince Edward Island, fiddling was generally considered a man's calling.

It is difficult to determine what the Island repertoire might have been at any given point in the past.

When Cape Breton fiddling broadcasts and recordings first reached PEI in the late 1930s, they created a sensation amo

Fiddlers had a definite role in district life.

Commercial Dance Halls first appeared in Prince County in the mid-1930s and had spread throughout the Island by the 1

Most youngsters who became successful fiddlers – such as Francis MacDonald,

Traditional music does not grow up in a vacuum.  It develops within a particular social organization and s

In the old days fiddlers rarely strung tunes together in performance.

From the late 19th century until just after World War II, the pump organ, or harmonium was the Island's most popular

Towards the end of the commercial dance-hall era, c

It’s impossible to get a clear picture of traditional fiddling on Prince Edward Island without also having at least s

There’s quite a bit of 5-string banjo accompaniment on this website, all played by me .

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