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File: mackenziesheila06-oh-youngfiddlers_M.mp3
Speakers:
SM – Sheila MacKenzie
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
SM: There's definitely a lot less older fiddlers out. You'd go to the ceilidh in Monticello on Sunday night and you'd have George [MacPhee] and you'd have a couple of other
File: arsenaultlouise06-oh-keepingmusicalive_M.wav
Speakers
LA: Louise Arsenault
KP: [summary] I understand you are thinking about founding a fiddle camp that focuses on Acadian fiddle, to keep Acadian music and culture alive. Why do you think that's important?
LA:
File: arsenaultedwardp-oh-gettingstarted_M.wav
Speakers:
EPA: Edward P Arsenault
MA: Marie Arsenault
KP: Curator Ken Perlman
406 KP: You said that you didn't take up the fiddle right away...
EPA: I was 32 years old, and that's a bad mistake. She bought me
File: macdonaldhilda-oh-frolics+weddings_M.mp3
Speakers:
HM – Hilda MacPhee MacDonald
HM: That was like the wedding that my brother Hughie and Ronnie Archie went to down to Kellys', down Fort Augustus. And it was Owen Kelly's wedding. Oh I guess it was a dandy. They go
File: hancockharold06-oh-houseparties_M.mp3
Speakers:
HH- Harold Hancock
NG – Norman Gillis
HH: They were the best ones really, was the house parties. I remember one time there was a dance up at Angus Beaton's. Remember they built a stage up there; it was Margaret
File: gotellwilfred-oh-dancing_M.mp3
Speakers:
WG – Wilfred Gotell
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
WG: But the old time dance, really, the old lancers, they died right out. This modern stuff come in. And it would be nice if it would come back again cause it was really a nice dance,
File: mcpheeangus-oh-districtdances_M.mp3
Speakers
AM – Angus MacPhee
AM Well, there used to be all kinds of house dances at that time in schools. That's all pretty much done away with now. There were only small schools, one room schools, and they'd have dances there through the year
File: chaissonkevin-oh_musicneverdies_M.mp3
Speakers:
KC – Kevin Chaisson
KC: But you get such tremendous satisfaction. It just makes my day when I see the kids play and you see them progressing all the time, eh? That's your payment. That's your payment. Before I'm gone, I hope by-
File: arsenaulteddy-oh-twists_M.wav
Speakers:
EA - Eddy Arsenault
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
EA Some put extra note in them - you know - different --- you know - - - a lot of players ... they put a lot of... It's like buildin a house -- you know, the rough work. But after
File: banksreg-oh-jackwebster_M.mp3
Speakers:
RB – Reg Banks
KP – Ken Perlman
RB: He used to drive the mail through here. Main road from Cardigan to Annadale. Annadale's 2 miles on the highway. And sometimes I'd take the violin out to the mailbox and meet Jack [Webster
File: dauschmidtkathryn06-oh-future_M.mp3
Speaker:
KD – Kathryn Dau Schmidt
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
KD: Two of my grandfathers and a great-grandfather were fiddlers [in Iowa and Wisconsin]. I never knew any of them. Well, I knew one of my grandfathers, but I never
File: sonierervan-oh-houseparties_M.mp3
ES And then again, there was nothing till the fiddler arrived. And they used to hit them with the -- hit the strings with the knittin' needles. Remember them on the fiddle. Keep time with the knittin needles.
KP That's like fiddle sticks.
File: huestislowell06-oh-huestisorchestra.mp3
Speakers:
LH – Lowell Huestis
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
LH - We had the band and when we went to play they would want old time music, see, so we had to get the fiddler to come along with us.
KP – Oh
File: macdonaldpaul-oh-compoundgracenotes_M.mp3
Speakers:
PM – Paul MacDonald
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
PM: Most times what you're actually dealing with is a grace note on a grace note, which is very tricky. That's what you're dealing with there. I've never really actually
File: pitredennis-oh-stepdancing_M.mp3
Speakers:
DP – Dennis Pitre
VD – Vincent Doucette
VD: In the olden days, too, well we're not that old (laughs), but I remember if you were at the harbour on Saturday afternoon after everybody was all done fishing and stuff