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File: macdougallherb06-oh-houseparties_M.mp3
Speakers:
HM – Herb MacDougall
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
HM: We would have what we'd call house parties
KP: At your house?
HM: At our house, yes. So my mother would probably prepare for a day or
File: macleandanny-oh-goodfiddler_M.mp3
Speakers:
DM – Danny MacLean
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
KP: what do you think makes a good fiddler? If you hear a fellow play, what about his music would stand out for you?
DM: What do you think makes him a good fiddler?
File: arsenaultlouise06-oh-acadiansyncopation_M.mp3
Speakers
LA: Louise Arsenault
KP: Ken Perlman
LA: When you do the shuffle it's like two up bows in a row.
KP: Can you take your fiddle and illustrate that
LA: I sure can,
File: gaudetdavid06-oh-gettingstarted_M.mp3
Speakers:
DG – David Gaudet
RG – Robert Gallant
KP- Curator Ken Perlman
KP: How did you yourself learn to play?
DG: I learned pretty well on my own.
RG: His brother kicked
File: arsenaultrobert06-oh-futureofmusic.mp3
Speakers:
RA-Robert Arsenault
RA:Tthis whole idea of where is it [Island fiddling] going and how far has it come. When you take it out of the kitchen and put it on the stage then you're getting into a whole new set of things. So one of the
File: macdonaldpaul-oh-hardvibrato_M.mp3
Speakers:
PM – Paul MacDonald
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
PM: But the most common one used is vibrato in Scottish music. That's the most common.
KP: Explain...
PM: That's just the classical
File: swensonamy06-oh-fiddlersgrandkids_M.mp3
Speaker: Amy Swenson
AS: I would say at least half of the students I teach have fiddlers in their family background, somewhere. And it's often their grandparents or great grandparents. And the fiddling skipped their parents' generation. But the
File: arsenaultlouise-oh-musichome_M.wav
Speakers:
LA-Louise Arsenault
KP-Curator Ken Perlman
LA: We never had a television for a while there, so there wasn't very much to do, I guess. So in the evenings we would, we only had the lamp, we never had the
File: cheveriecharles-oh-foundingfiddlerssociety_contests_M.mp3
Speakers:
CC – Fr. Charles Cheverie
In 1975, Faber MacDonald, the priest for our diocese, along with Joe Chaisson –And Joe and Fr. Faber wrote to all the fiddlers they knew at that time on the Island to gather at St.
File: quinnmerlin-oh-stoppingwork_M.mp3
Speakers:
MQ – Merlin Quinn
MQ: Somebody might come in with a fiddle if they ever did. My father loved the fiddle. So if anybody ever came in that could play fiddle, it just stopped everything right off. That was the end of the work, we all went
File: westprincefiddlers-oh-olddays_fights_M.mp3
Seated L-R:
JA: Jack Arbing
GO: George O'Connor
ER: Elmer Robinson
DR: Dorothy Dalton Rogers]
KP: Curator Ken Perlman
Speakers:
JA Used to be great fights at the dances.
File: doironpeter-oh-stepdancing_M.mp3
Speakers:
PD – Peter Doiron
KP – Ken Perlman
PD Our house if you can imagine it, is a very small hut, or bungalow I suppose you'd call it, -- a very small place but it would literally be filled with people from the village or
File: macinnislargus-oh-gaelic_M.mp3
Speakers:
LM – Largus MacInnis
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
LM I remember my two grandmothers; they spoke Gaelic a lot.
KP Yes.
LM There was an old lady; used to live in Munns Road. She'd walk
File: hallidayjimmy-oh-lazyfiddlers_M.mp3
Speakers:
JH: Jimmy Halliday
EM: Eddie Martin
KP: Curator Ken Perlman
JH At that time a lot of them weren't much good for anything else for some reason or another. They were handy to have around for a house
File: johnstoneroy06-oh-fiddlingin70s_M.mp3
Speakers:
RJ – Roy Johnstone
KP: Curator Ken Perlman
RJ: I moved here in '78, yeah.
KP: What was the state of Island fiddling [then]?
RJ: Coming from Winnipeg where there wasn't