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File: morrisonrita-oh--womanfiddling_M.mp3
Speakers:
RM – Rita Morrison
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
RM But they weren't encouraged as much maybe, were they?
KP I don't know! What do you think?
RM Well, it's like everything else now. There'
File: macdonaldjoe-oh-nellybanks.mp3
Speakers:
JM – Joe MacDonald
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
JM: It was dry then, dry as could be. But there was a few years later then the rum started to come in. Capt. Dicks used to be up here with the Nellie J. Banks.
KP: I
File: myersfenner06-oh-gettingstarted_M.mp3
Speakers:
FM – Fenner Myers
JD – Jim Dobson
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
KP: Was there music in your house when you were growing up?
FM: Yeah
KP : What kind of music was there?
File: cranerobert06-oh-fiddlerspay_M.mp3
Speakers:
RC – Robert Crane
RC: I played with my Dad for a lot of weddings. Oh, the old fashioned weddings was great. One weddin' him and I played when I was only young. And he was rakin' hay with the old horse and rake, and I was kylin' hay in
File: mcpheehugh06-oh-familyorigins_M.mp3
Speakers:
HM – Hughie McPhee
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
HM: I guess it started, probably started when Wolfe was in Quebec. In Wolfe's Army, they had a pipe regiment and my great, great uncle was a piper there with him. His nephew, Archie
File: macdonaldfrancis-oh-musicinfamily_M.mp3
Speakers:
FM – Francis MacDonald
FM My father's family, it was his mother that actually taught him how to play. And it was in her side of the family, the MacDonalds on her side of the family that were the musicians more so than my father'
File: macdougalljim06-oh-parishpicnics_M.mp3
Speakers:
JM – Jim MacDougall
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
JM: All the country schools used to have dances in the summertime to raise money for to support the schools. I played for quite a few of those.
KP: Who were
File: raffertyervin06-oh-wedding_M.mp3
Speakers:
ER – Ervan Rafferty
ER: Weddings, there was always music at weddings. And if you were lucky enough to get a violin player that wasn't too far away, he was in great demand, because there wasn't that many violin players like there are today
File: arsenaultrobert06-oh-professionalization_M.mp3
Speakers:
RA: Robert Arsenault
KP: Ken Perlman
RA: In terms of where's the music going .We were talking last time that traditional music was essentially through kitchen parties in the home, sometimes at the
File: chappellella06-oh-farmlife_M.mp3
Speakers:
EC – Ella Chappell
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
EC: We had no pump in the house; we had it outside and we had to pump the water and take it in. And then we had the old range stove and there was a big tank on the side which holded
File: chaissonkevin-oh-pnoruns.mp3
Speakers:
KC — Kevin Chaisson
KC It's always in the background with the fiddle. The fiddle is — Stands out, and the piano is always in the background. But the thing that I like to do is — I don't even know what you call it. It's kinda like maybe a chord
File: gauthierjohn06-oh-houseparties_fights_M.mp3
Speakers:
JG – John Gauthier
ID – Ivan Day
KP: Curator Ken Perlman
KP: Did they have house parties?
JG: Oh very much so, my earliest dances I played were house dances.
File: doironpeter-oh-housedances_M.mp3
Speakers:
PD – Peter Doiron
PD: There'd be house dances back then mostly. And if there were tea parties or picnics, they would have a stage outside where they would, I think,
charge so much to get on the stage. And they would dance
File: dockendorffharold06-oh-playingfordances_M.mp3
Speakers:
HD – Harold Dockendorff
KP: Did your parents play music at all?
HD: No. There was no music in the family, except my youngest brother he learned to play the Hawaiian guitar with the steel bar. And I
File: cheverieomar06-oh-neilcheverie_M.mp3
Speakers:
OC – Omar Cheverie
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
OC: Well, in his time everybody thought he was exceptional because he seemed to be a bit above the rest. He could cut and do things with the bow that most other fiddlers around