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Speakers: maccannellneil-oh-lunch_M.mp3

NM – Neil MacCannell

KP – Curator Ken Perlman

NM There was lunch served always by the hostess. Just good old-fashioned home-baked bread, and biscuits and jam and that sort of stuff. And sweets, too many

File: sonierervan-oh-badinstrument_M.mp3

Speakers:

ES – Ervan Sonier

ES: But I always got a kick - And this was a true story, I think – Getting back to the fiddle being the devil's instrument. I remember Guy Buolter, a terrific fiddler from up west. And they were going to get Guy.

File: livingstonemarie06-oh-wellingtonjam_M.mp3

Speakers:

ML – Marie Arsenault Livingstone

EA – Edward P Arsenault

KP – Curator Ken Perlman

ML: Friday evenings for the last six years we have a jam in Wellington at the Boys and Girls Club

EA: Every

File: chaissonkevin06-oh-fiddlingsurvival_M.mp3

Speakers:

KC – Kevin Chaisson

KP – Curator Ken Perlman

KP: So looking back at the last 15 years, what's happened ?

KC: When you were here the last time, I would have to say fiddle music was probably at one of

File: oconnorattwood-oh-musichome_M.mp3

Speakers:

AO - Attwood O'Connor

KP – Curator Ken Perlman

KP: Would you have music sessions in the house?

AO: Oh Yes.

KP: Can you tell us a little bit about them.

AO: My father's house there when we were kids, that

File: sigsworthcosmas-oh-gettingstarted_marriage_M.mp3

Speakers:

CS – Cosmas Sigsworth

KP – Curator Ken Perlman

KP: Did you grow up in a musical household?

CS: Not really. My mother was musical; she played the organ; but there was nobody in the immediate family that

File: hancockharold06-oh-familyorigin_M.mp3

Speakers:

HH – Harold Hancock

KN: Keith Nicholson

HH: Well the Hancocks immigrated up from the states. Actually my grandfather deserted off an American sailing ship in Charlottetown Harbor, and in those days

File: banksreg06-oh-schooldances_piesocials.mp3

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RB – Reg Banks

KP – curator Ken Perlman

RB: Years ago they'd have the old-fashioned school houses, befoerr they's have the big high schools and all this. Every settlement had a school house. And they would have dances in

File: stewartbud06-oh-dancehalls_M.mp3

Speakers:

BS – Bud Stewart

KP – Curator Ken Perlman

KP: What was life like growing up on a farm.

BS: Not that great, not easy. There wasn't a lot of money but everybody was pretty much in the same boat. We didn't

File: biggarjackie06-oh-tunememory_M.mp3

Speakers:

JB – Jackie Biggar

KP – curator Ken Perlman

And a lot of times when I was learnin' I'd have a dream that I learnt the tune; I'd get up in the morning and play it. I'd be friggin' with it that night, and couldn't