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File: cheveriecharles06-oh-womansrole-M.mp3
Speakers:
CC – Fr. Charlie Cheverie
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
KP: Why do suppose there are more girls than boys excelling at the fiddle, or getting serious about the fiddle.
CC: I don't know what the demographics of
File: chaissonyoungpeter-oh-weddingreeldemo_M.mp3
Speakers:
PC – "Young Peter" Chaisson
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
PC: That's the first tune that used to be played at a wedding, fifty, sixty years ago around here. And they always hired the fiddler before they got the date of the
File: macdonaldpaul-oh-gettingstarted_M.mp3
Speakers:
PM – Paul MacDonald
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
PM I played classical music for probably three years I guess it was, I quit when I was 12. I told my parents, "OK, no more classical violin. But I think I want to play fiddle
File: doucettevictor06-oh-fathersrole_M.mp3
Speakers:
VD – Victor Doucette
Victor: I was in Ontario for a few years and then started to play it [the fiddle] up there again and started to fool around with it. But then when I got home and got married in the late 70s, then
File: arsenaultrobert-oh-joebibiennefamily_M.mp3
Speakers
RA: Robert Arsenault
KP: Curator Ken Perlman
RA I never saw my grandfather play too much. But he's sort of still like known like his name was Joe Bibienne -- his name was Joe Bibienne -- because there was a whole bunch
File: cheverieomar06-oh-capebretonradio_fitzgerald_M.mp3
Speakers:
OC – Omar Cheverie
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
OC: I can remember the first radio that we had in our neighborhood. Our next door neighbor had a radio.
KP: Was that one of those big battery radios
File: cheveriecharles-oh-tunetitles.mp3
Speakers:
CC - Fr. Charles Cheverie
CC: Well a lot of the times if you go to the eastern part of the island here and ask the fiddler for the name of a tune, forget it! (laughs).. But yet, they'll have a sequence of tunes. Give one tune, and
File: maccannellneil-oh-stepdancing_M.mp3
Speakers:
NM – Neil MacCannell
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
NM They'd be requested to step dance; usually there was two or three step dancers among the group.
KP I was told they each had their favorite tunes, is that
File: robinsonelmer92-oh-musicalbackground_M.mp3
Speakers:
ER –Elmer Robinson
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
KP: Did you grow up in Woodstock?
ER: No, about 15 miles down the road here: Mount. Pleasant. Been up here fabout 20 years.
KP: Do you come from
File: cranerobert06-oh-homemadebeer_M.mp3
Speakers:
RC – Robert Crane
RC: A cousin of ours was home from the States, a whole bunch at the house, and a couple of jugs, and one feller had an old car he put it in the woods at home, [inaudible]. And he said, "Are you goin' to the dance in
File: macdonaldpaul-oh-cutting_M.mp3
Speakers:
PM – Paul MacDonald
KP – Ken Perlman
KP Now what did they show you about cutting?
PM Okay. The first thing - This is a funny story; I don't know if I should say this on tape. I went to Cape Breton when I was
File: bernardalvin-oh-decline.mp3
Speakers:
ES — Edwin Simmons
AB — Alvin Bernard
KP — Curator Ken Perlman
KP: Why did it start goin down? What would happen if a young fellow ... Let's say it was the 1950s, what would happen if a young fellow wanted to take up
File Name: albertjoe06-oh-gettingstarted_stepdancing_M.mp3
Speakers:
JA: Joe Albert
IA: Ivan Albert
KP: Ken Perlman
KP: Joe, how old were you when you started to play the fiddle?
JA: How
File: dauschmidtkathryn-oh-peerpressure_M.mp3
Speakers:
KD – Kathryn Dau Schmidt
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
KD - My one problem is about Grade 6 with the boys and Grade 8 wityh the girls you lose them -- often yuou lose them unless they're really secure.
KP
File: oconnorattwood-oh-violence_M.mp3
Speakers:
AO – Attwood O'Connor
SB – Stanley Bruce
KP – Ken Perlman
KP: I've heard of lots of fighting at some of these parties. Noone ever says what anyone was fighting about.
AO: Actually, I don't think that a lot of them