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File: macdonaldpaul-oh-slurs.mp3
Speakers
PM – Paul MacDonald
PM: Recently I was up to Richmond, the Richmond MacKinnon Festival [the Richmond Scottish Music & Dance Festival], and watched Jerry Holland play, of course. I've seen Jerry play many times, and I guess it's getting
File: mcpheedan-oh-dances_M.mp3
Speakers:
DM – Dan McPhee
HM – Hughie McPhee (Dan's brother)
DM There'd be dances during the summertime; there'd be dances in the schoolhouses. They'd be trying to raise some money to…
HM Repairs and paintin'
File: stewartarchie-oh-houseparty.mp3
Speakers
AS – Archie Stewart
AS: Back then in the Depression, we had no entertainment. There was no radios, there was no television, and that was the only entertainment we had. You know in the wintertime probably once a week
File: chappellella06-oh-wintertravel_M.mp3
Speakers:
EC – Ella Thomson Chappell
EC: And then I remember when I went to school, there's no snow plows then, and then we'd go through the field. They'd break a road with the horse and sleigh, and then they'd go and take branches off a
File: mellishreg06-oh-dancenotallowed_gettingstarted_M.mp3
Speakers:
RM – Reg Mellish
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
KP: Was there music in your house?
RM: No.
KP: Was there music in your community?
RM: Not much, not at that
File: dauschmidtkathryn-oh-rollobayschool_M.mp3
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KD – Kathryn Dau Schmidt
KD: Some of those kids that are doing so beautifully now just started right then. They were 5 and 6 years old, some were 7. So they had a little start but they pretty much started with me
File: macdonaldjoe-oh-parishpicnics_M.mp3
Speakers:
JM – Joe MacDonald
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
JM: They were pretty busy in the summer time. There wouldn't be too much - There wouldn't be house parties but there'd be outside things like picnics in the summertime
KP
File: macdonaldpaul-oh-doublestops_M.mp3
Speakers:
PM – Paul MacDonald
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
PM: That's right. The most common one is…
Demonstrates Double Stop on G and B (strings 3 and 2, respectively)
PM There's G right there
File: macdonaldfaber-oh-abusingthegift_M.mp3
Speakers:
FM – Rev. FaberMacDonald
FM: Your question brings up another consideration in terms of the gift, you see. I can recall the many different fiddlers who came from the little community where I was brought up, which is just about 10
File: cousinsjohn-oh-badinstrument_M.mp3
Speakers:
JC – John Cousins
JC: There was a belief in the community around here that if a man ever became a fiddler, a good fiddler – In order to be a good fiddler, you couldn't be any good for anything else. First of all it implied an addiction
File: hughesemmett-oh-houseparties_weddings_M.mp3
Speakers:
EH - Emmett Hughes
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
KP What were the old house parties like? Did they take place in your house quite often?
EH Yes, they'd go from house to house, usually the
File: cheveriecharles06-oh-singingstrings_M.mp3
Speakers:
CC – Fr. Charles Cheverie
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
CC: On PEI in the last 10, 15 years – Was John and Jan Clemmens around when you were here before?
KP: Yes, Singing Strings?
CC:
File: quinnmerlin-oh-gettingstarted_M.mp3
Speaker:
MQ – Merlin Quinn
MQ: It was the thing. It just simply seemed to me to be the thing to be able to do. It was so great! I could whistle and I could jig, and I could sing and so could my father, as I said, was a good
File: mackenziesheila06-oh-whymorewomanfiddling_M.mp3
Speakers:
SM –Sheila MacKenzie
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
SM: I guess it had a lot to do with – It was just a changing world. Women progressed in every area with equality. So they were doing more, and it was accepted more. And
File: mcquaidjenny-oh-musicinhome_M.mp3
Speakers:
JM — Jenny O'Hanley McQuaid
TW — Teresa MacPhee Wilson
JM In those times, I remember — JD MacAdam and Chester played the organ, and JD played the fiddle and Albina stepdanced, she was a real good step dancer: a woman, Albina