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File: wightelliott-oh-donmesser_M.mp3
Speakers:
EW – Elliott Wight
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
EW That's right. At that time we had no electricity in our house and we used to have a battery radio. And we could only turn it on to hear the news and to hear Don
File: bergeronhelene06-oh-barachoisappeal_M.mp3
Speakers:
HB – Helene Bergeron
PA – Peter Arsenault
KP – curator Ken Perlman
KP: Was there anything in particular about PEI music that you felt the audiences [for Barachois] reacted to?
File: gotellhugh-oh-gettingstarted_quitting_M.mp3
Speaker:
HG – Hugh Gotell
KP: Curator Ken Perlman
HG: Well my dad played, the violin. He played at, we used to have concerts, once a year there, St. Patrick's concerts: 17th of March. And they had a little
File: sheehancharlie-oh-parties_organs_M.mp3
Speaker:
CS – Charlie Sheehan
KP: What were the house parties like?
CS: Oh, they were good. Just a bunch would gather, a bunch of boys and girls and get into a house and dance to about twelve or one o'clock at night
File: chaissonjj06-oh-fiddlingsurvival_M.mp3
Speakers
JC – JJ Chaisson
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
JC: There's an awful lot of people playing fiddle now, than there was five or ten years ago, 15 years ago. There's an awful lot of young people that have shown interest, fiddle
File: hallidayjimmy-oh-endofera_M.mp3
Speakers
JH – Jimmy Halliday
EM – Eddie Martin
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
KP When did the house parties start to go down?
JH When they started to put carpet on, I guess Eddie was it? No, People are pretty
File: gauthierjohn06-oh-greatunclecharlie_M.mp3
Speakers:
JG – John Gauthier
JG: I was playing to the wedding, this was about 1946 or 47, of a cousin of mine in Rustico. I took a break, and went inside - They had built a stage out in the farm yard. I went in
File: macdonaldallan06-oh-hectorsfiddling.mp3
Speakers:
AM – Allan MacDonald
AM: He [Hector MacDonald] had a nice rhythm, everybody loved his fiddling.
KP: What did they like about his fiddling?
AM: Well, beautiful dance fiddling,
File: gauthierjohn06-oh-danceband_M.mp3
Speakers:
JG – John Gauthier
ID – Ivan Day
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
KP: When did you start playing for dances as a fiddler?
JG: That was probably during the war, when I was working for the phone
File: arsenaulteddy-oh-styles_M.wav
Speaker:
EA — Eddy Arsenault
It don't make any difference where you go, you can go up west, you go to Tignish, you can go to Souris, you can go Summerside, everybody got a different style to play. You notice that? Now in New Brunswick they got a
File: oconnorattwood-oh-weddings_M.mp3
Speakers:
AO – Attwood O'Connor
SB – Stanley Bruce
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
KP Can you describe how weddings went in this area?
AO It was all square dancing. After they'd get married they'd be comin home, and they'd
File: toolestephen-oh-takingsound_M.mp3
Speakers:
ST – Stephen Toole
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
ST And another thing about a fiddler is – I've heard my father sayin, I've heard a lot of people sayin that they can always tell a person that would never be a fiddler by the sound
File: hubleylibby-oh-stepdancingolddays_M.mp3
Speakers:
LH – Libby Hubley
LH: I think when the men danced, it was only those who had that love and great feel for the music, the music just moved them to do those different little patterns with their feet. And the patterns
File: quinnmerlin06-oh-schoolcommittees_M.mp3
Speakers:
MQ – Merlin Quinn
CW – Carl Webster
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
KP: Who exactly – Every community had its school dances and some had church benefits. Who actually organized those?
CW: For the
File: hornbyjim-oh-contests_M.mp3
Speakers:
JH – Jim Hornby
JH I can see that it's a fairly arbitrary result. Also, it's a small community and anybody's going to be a judge, they're not going to bring someone from Halifax to judge them. They're going to get some farmer