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File: macinnislargus-oh-decline_culturallosses_M.mp3
Speakers:
LM – Largus MacInnis
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
LM See, when radio started coming in, well, probably there'd be a place that had a radio, and there'd be old time music on sometimes, and there'd be a crowd gather in to
File: richardfred06-oh-politics_M.mp3
Speakers:
FR – Fred Richard
FR: If you went to a meeting of politics. I'd play maybe a couple of tunes there and you'd get the old politicians, or the strong Liberals or the strong Conservatives would be gettin' up and givin' a step, and everybody
File: doucettejoe-oh-marmotteuse.mp3
JD: La Marmoteuse? The origin of that is, There's an old couple that lived in the country like this, and there was a Bingo in the village. They played Bingo. The old lady she liked to play Bingo, and the old man didn't want to go, see?
KP: Yeah.
JD: So
File: hubleylibby-oh-stepdancingchanges_M.mp3
Speakers:
LH – Libby Hubley
LH: Now, I wasn't the first step dancing teacher. There were others before me but not for very long, I wouldn't say. I think that change came because when I came to step dancing I also brought with it
File: pitredennis-oh-gettingstarted_M.mp3
Speakers:
DP –Dennis Pitre
DP: But my mother had two brothers that played. One played the accordion and one played the organ. But there was no fiddle playing.
KP: So how did you learn?
DP: Just because I loved it (laughs). Just
File - trainorcecil06-oh-musichome_M.mp3
Speakers:
CT – Cecil Trainor
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
KP: The community was called Peake's Station?
CT: Yes.
KP: Did you grow up in a family where people played music.
CT: My
File: macinnislargus-oh-breakdowns_M.mp3
Speakers:
LM – Largus MacInnis
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
.LM An odd time the old folks would get up and they'd dance what they called a "breakdown."
KP And what was that like?
LM It was all
File: stewartarchie-oh-3mostimportant.mp3
Speakers:
AS – Archie Stewart
AS I heard an old fellow saying one time, the three most important people in the district‑‑the minister was first, the schoolteacher was next, and the fiddler was next! (laughter). That was the three most
File: lowejudy06-oh-elliottwightdance_M.mp3
Speakers:
JL – Judy Lowe
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
KP: Tell me about how got started playing with Elliott [Wight]?
JL: I went to the dance, I was 19, at the Junior Farmer's Hall in North River, which
File: arsenaultrobert-oh-fiddlersrepcultures_M.mp3
Speakers
RA: Robert Arsenault
RA: A fiddler carries his own level of feeling with him when he plays. A fiddler when he plays he plays with his body. A fiddler is a dancer and his whole entire body plays. You stop a fiddler from
File: macleandanny-oh-lumberwoods_M.mp3
Speakers:
DM – Danny MacLean
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
DOM – Donny MacLean (Danny's son)
DM: But I did learn tunes in the lumber woods. That's mostly where I did learn them. I spent a lot of time in the lumber woods.
File: macdonaldbill-oh-composing_m.mp3
Speakers:
Bm – Bill MacDonald
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
BM: [The] first of this week, Tuesday I think it was, I went out to my daughter's cottage, 25 miles out.
KP: Yes.
BM: Up near Morrell. I was
File: wilsonteresa06group-oh-womenfiddling_M.mp3
Speakers:
MW – Mary MacPhee Warren
TW – Teresa MacPhee Wilson
MW: When I got married in Montreal, Aunt Hilda she was coming to my wedding, but I didn't know she was going to bring the fiddle. Everybody who was at the wedding wre Italian
File: smithtony06-oh-dirtytrick_M.mp3
Speakers:
TS – Tony Smith
AG – Alfred Gallant
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
TS: Him and this other guy played all night at this house party. They used to have big money years ago, black cents, they were big ones.
KP
File: biggarjackie06-oh-poweroutages_M.mp3
Speakers:
JB – Jackie Biggar
KP – Ken Perlman
Years ago the power used to go off, we didn't have a – A storm, a transformer would get hit by lightning and stuff. There's be a severe storm, the power would go