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File: raffertyervin06-oh-familyorigins_M.mp3
Speakers:
ER – Ervan Rafferty
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
ER: James, James Rafferty.
KP: Do you know what part of Ireland he came from?
ER: The area he was born in was County Down.
File: cheveriecharles-oh-radio.mp3
Speakers:
CC – Fr. Charlie Cheverie
CC: Way back on PEI when radio came about, in the late 20s and early 30s, then you'd be speaking of hearing tunes from Sydney, Nova Scotia, and Antigonish. And the fiddlers in those days were were
File: raffertyervin06-oh-houseparties_M.mp3
Speakers:
ER – Ervan Rafferty
ER: Oh yeah, the house parties. Quite often you'd have the house parties too, especially in the wintertime, break up the winter. Christmas time was a great getting' together. People would go to
File: pitredennis06-oh-changes_M.mp3
Speakers:
DP – Dennis Pitre
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
DP: There's no change much since 15 years ago. Everything is the same. We play in the Hall Saturday Night, for the Saturday Night Dance. And we play pretty well once a week for the senior
File: macdonaldfrancis-oh-ancestry_M.mp3
Speakers:
FM – Francis MacDonald
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
FM Yeah, we try to maintain a family tree back five generations, anyway.
KP How far back have you – Oh, you have traced it back five generations?
FM Yes, as
File: sigsworthcosmas-oh-houseparties_dances_M.mp3
Speakers
CS – Cosmas Sigsworth
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
KP: Could you give us an idea of what a typical house party would be like from start to finish?
CS: Well, not any different that any other I suppose. People were
File: mcdonaldleonard-oh-chordsonfiddle_M.mp3
Speakers:
LM – Leonard McDonald
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
LM Well like I mean every area had its own – I have my own distinct style of playing. I learned to play the fiddle pretty much by myself, and I'll tell you I play a lot of
File: hughesemmett06-oh-housepartydress_M.mp3
Speakers:
EH – Emmett Hughes
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
EH: Back then nobody would dance with their overalls on. It was kind of a B The whole damn trouble was, back when I was a young man was B [to] get money enough to
File: woodrichard06-oh-olderfiddlerspart2_M.mp3
Speakers:
RW – Richard Wood
RW: When I was 11 – 9 I should say, a lot of my best friends were 60 really, and 55. Every second night I'd be goin' to a place where there would be a benefit or a ceilidh and meetin' up with these older
File: dayivan06-oh-jimmybearisto_M.mp3
Speaker:
ID – Ivan Day
JG – John Gauthier
KP – Speaker Ken Perlman
ID: I was in the insurance business at the last of it, and I used to get around, and I'd drop into Jimmy's for a few minutes.
KP: Into his shop
File: macdougalljim06-oh-playsfirstdance_M.mp3
Speakers:
JM – Jim MacDougall
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
JM: I was 16 years old when I played for my first dance in Grand River Hall.
KP: How did it happen that they asked you to play?
JM: That
File: o'connorjimmy-oh-davebeck_M.mp3
Speakers:
JO – Jimmy O'Connor
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
JO Dave Beck, he was about the best when I was younger: around our place, anyway.
KP Did you try to play like him?
JO Yeah, in a way. He was good.
KP Did you ever
File: macdonaldward06-oh-youngergeneration_M.mp3
Speakers:
WM – Ward MacDonald
WM: I definitely see people giving too much recognition to some of the younger kids. It's not that the fans of the music mean to do it. But I know they are trying to encourage the kid; they want to see the
File: macdougalljim06-oh-gettingstarted_M.mp3
Speakers:
JM – Jim MacDougall
KP – Curator Ken Pelman
KP: Now how did you get started playing?
JM: Well again, that's another story (laughs). My father was very strict with the B He had a violin and it wasn't a
File: pitredennis06-oh-stepdancing_M.mp3
Speakers:
DP – Dennis Pitre
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
KP: You were saying that the tempos, the speed that the people wanted the music for step dancing was a little bit slower then?
DP: Not too fast, they'd always tell you