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File: westprincefiddlers-oh-foundinggroup_M.mp3
Speakers:
JA: Jack Arbing
GO: George O'Connor, Kildare Capes [fid]
ER: Elmer Robinson,
DR: Dorothy Dalton Rogers
LT: Lee Thompson
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
JA George O'Cponnor
File: macdonaldallan06-oh-hectorsdancehall_M.mp3
Speakers:
AM – Allan MacDonald
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
AM: And then when I was 15, we cut for the Hall, the Dance Hall we had back here – Dad and I cut the wood together one winter with the buck saw and the axe and the old horse
File: cheverieomar06-oh-gettingstarted_M.mp3
Speakers:
OC – Omar Cheverie
KP: At what age did you take up the fiddle?
OC: About 11. I tried the fiddle before that but my arm was a little too short to reach the neck. They wouldn't let me play it, you better wait
File: cousinsjohn-oh-islandsounds_M.mp3
Speakers:
JC – John Cousins
JC: Speaking of sounds, not only music of course – The sounds of the farm, the traditional farm on PEI will probably never be heard now because they were never really recorded. The sound of a team. This farm never
File: chappellella06-oh-firstcar_M.mp3
Speakers:
EC – Ella Thomson Chappell
EC: Everybody went in a horse and wagon then because there was no cars. And I can remember the first cars when they were around: or pretty near the first, I guess. I must tell you this little story. There's
File: lowejudy06-oh-gettingstarted_M.mp3
JL – Judy Lowe
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
KP: How did you get started on the piano?
JL: From my grandmother. She taught me to play organ, to chord. My Dad played fiddle, and so he would be in the room playing fiddle and
File: johnstoneroy06-oh-hisinfluence_M.mp3
Speakers:
RJ – Roy Johnstone
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
KP: What affect do you think [your approach] has had on the younger players?
RJ: I wouldn't really think personally I've had a big influence. It's
File: cranerobert06-oh-firsttune_M.mp3
Speakers:
RC – Robert Crane
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
KP: How old were you when you started to play the fiddle?
RC: I was pickin' at it at about 12 year old I guess.
KP: Do your remember how it
File: chipmangary-oh-donmesser_M.mp3
Speakers:
GC – Gary Chipman
KP – Ken Perlman
KP: Were there fiddlers in particular that you liked to listen to?
GC: Messer!
KP: Messer.
GC: Don Messer was really the only one I heard. That was only show that was on the
File: doucettepat06-oh-williethibodeau_M.mp3
Speakers:
PD – Pat Doucette
PD: There was as fiddler player up west, Willie Thibodeau. He'd play the fiddle, he'd make you cry. He was a fisherman. You must have heard tell of the mermaid. Remember the ship was going through? To me Willie
File: wilsonteresa-oh-jigging_M.mp3
Speakers:
TW – Teresa MacPhee Wilson
JM – Jenny O'Hanlon McQuaid
TW I heard my mother sayin' that, before her time, when she was younger growin' up, they had two - They called them "tuners," two women or a man and a woman - They'd sit on
File: doucettevictor06-oh-twists_M.mp3
Speakers:
VD – Victor Doucette
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
KP: How did you go about learning tunes?
VD: Just listen to Dad playing and others playing. Try to go back and figure out what they are doing. The
File: bergeronhelene06-oh-barachoisfounding_M.mp3
HB: Albert, my brother and myself had decided one year that we wanted to write a dinner theater, which is a local comedy musical production given every summer, mostly for tourists. We auditioned some local people for it. We knew we wanted Louise who is a local
File: macinnisbillyjunior06-oh-musiccareer_M.mp3
Speakers:
BM – Billy MacInnis Jr
BM: When I started playing fiddle, that was my first instrument. And then to make a long story short, I recall gettin' up one morning and finding a guitar in the house. And I didn't know my Dad played
File: smithreuben-oh-learningtunes_M.mp3
Speakers:
RS –Reuben Smith
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
RS Learning tunes? Well, I...
KP Did you just get them in your head?
RS Yeah, I just get them in my head. I used to go to the dances and that, and if somebody played