The recordings presented on this site were made by me or under my direction during three periods of time.
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File: chaissontimothy06-oh-familyinfluences_M.mp3
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TC – Timothy Chaisson
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
TC: I learned a lot from Peter, he actually mentored me quite a bit: using the fourth fingers for example. He doesn't usually play open strings for fiddle I guess; his
Collection: Bowing Down Home Oral History Transcripts
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File: jonesandrew-oh-fatherpermission_M.mp3
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AJ – Andrew Jones
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
KP Did you learn tunes from your father at all?
AJ No, I don't think so. I don't think I learned anything from him at all. He wouldn't leave me take the fiddle. I'd sneak
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File: macdonaldjoe-oh-gettingstarted_learningtunes_M.mp3
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JM – Joe MacDonald
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
JM: Around here, there was good old fiddlers around here. There was Gregory MacEachern, a neighbor of ours. He's dead now long of it. He was a great old fiddler and
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File: hornbyjim-oh-fiddlersociety_M.mp3
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JH – Jim Hornby
JH Yeah. I was around just when they started. At that time they sort of gathered a lot of people who were players and had been for years, and hadn't in some cases been very active, and sort of got them
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File: biggarjackie06-oh-contests_M.mp3
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JB – Jackie Biggar
KP – curator Ken perlman
JB: Cape Breton's got Buddy MacMaster, we had Elmer Robinson. They tell me Elmer Robinson and Bill Harvey - Bill Harvey played the fiddle too up in this area. They went to
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Most Island fiddlers already had a substantial stock of tunes committed to memory before they even took up the instru
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On the appointed evening of a typical Island house dance, relations, neighbors, and friends would converge at the hos
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At one time nearly every cluster of districts on PEI was the seat of its own distinct sub-style. The South Kings sound seems to be one such stylistic pocket that survived into the modern era. South Kings fiddlers play a shuffling, lilting style that seems reminiscent of 1920s-era recordings of fiddlers from the American South. Relative to their Northeast Kings counterparts, their tempos are faster, they have a more rolling style of bowing, and they use less ornamentation, cuts, and snaps.
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Since the mid-18th century, an extensive written tradition for fiddle tunes has co-existed with the aural one.
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Don Messer dominated fiddle-music broadcasting on PEI from 1939 to 1958, when he moved to Halifax to establish the te
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As Prince Edward Island modernized, Town Days took on many of the functions in community life that were once the real
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When no fiddler was available, many Islanders were able to amuse themselves by singing fiddle-tunes, an activity know