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File: macdonaldhilda-oh-womensrole_M.mp3
Speakers:
HM – Hilda MacPhee MacDonald
GM – George MacPhee (Hilda's nephew)
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
KP: And how old were you when you started playing for dances yourself?
HM: Oh, I never played at very many dances.
File: lowejudy06-oh-robertweeks_M.mp3
Speakers:
JL – Judy Lowe
JL: My grandfather was Bob Weeks, and Bob was quite a good fiddler back in them times. He lived in Winsloe and he had a big family. He played around at dances in the community and other places. He was a cheese
File: dockendorffharold06-oh-escapingdance_M.mp3
Speakers:
HD: Harold Dockendorff
HD: One night my brother and I were playing at a school dance. It got pretty wild. So it was time to go home and it was after one o'clock. I had to go outside, pretend I had to go outside
File: wilsonteresa-oh-fiddlingsanta_M.mp3
Speakers:
TW – Teresa MacPhee Wilson
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
TW: My father was Santa Claus one time, the first time I ever remember seeing Santa Claus. I had no idea who this chap was that come in. There was no radios then, you know,
File: pitredennis06-oh-familyreaction_M.mp3
Speakers:
DP – Dennis Pitre
VD – Vincent Doucette
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
KP: Did you get encouraged in your house?
DP: No, there was no music – Well, on my mother's side side, but she didn't play anything
File: baglolesidney-oh-gettingstarted_M.mp3
Speakers:
SB – Sid Baglole
KP – curator Ken Perlman
KP: What year were you born?
SB: 1912
KP: 1912n
SB: Yeah, I'm 80 years old. Just had a birthday, just gone by.
KP: Did you come from a musical family?
Name of File: arsenaulteddy-oh-glasgow_M.mp3
Speakers:
EA-Eddy Arsenault
KP-Curator Ken Perlman
You just told us a story before about about coming to Glasgow on V-E day. Will you tell us that story?
EA That was about the biggest square dance I've ever played for ... They
File: gauthierjohn06-oh-batteryradios_M.mp3
Speakers:
JG – John Gauthier
ID – Ivan Day
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
mid-late 30s).
6:50
JG: That would be around the mid 30s. Until that time we didn't have a radio. And of course with
File: macdonaldpaul-oh- heartvstechnique_M.mp3
Speakers:
PM – Paul MacDonald
PM: The funny thing about traditional fiddle music on Prince Edward Island is that you can go listen to a fiddler and his technique is, he's got hardly any technique at all, but he's so full of music and
File: arsenaultedwardp06-oh-musichome.wav
Speakers
EPA: Edward P Arsenault
ML: Marie Arsenault Livingstone
KP: Curator Ken Perlman
KP: Your parents, did they fish or were they farmers?
EPA: They farmed, pretty well.
KP
File - farrellleo06-oh-fiddlerpay_M.mp3
Speaker:
LF – Leo Farrell
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
LF: Farmed all my life except a few years. I farmed up through the 1940s. You know, I was pretty lucky. You're not in a hurry are you?
KP: No.
File: macdonaldhilda-oh-gettingstarted_M.mp3
Speakers:
HM – Hilda MacPhee MacDonald
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
GM – George MacPhee (Hilda's nephew)
HM: I guess I was six; as soon as I could hold the fiddle I started to learn.
KP: (to George MacPhee) This was your
File: cheveriecharles-oh-donmesser_M.mp3
Speakers:
CC – Fr. Charles Cheverie
CC Then in 1939 or 1940, Don Messer came. Don Messer was a big, big name in fiddling. But Don Messer was a fiddler who came from New Bruns-wick, he had some classical training himself, was able to
File: johnstoneroy06-oh-futureofmusic_M.mp3
Speakers:
RJ – Roy Johnstone
RJ: In terms of where the music's going, I think there's gonna be a strong continuation of playing the tunes that are part of the repertoire here. And the players are gonna get better and better
File: chaissontimothy06-oh-fiddlingtoday_M.mp3
Speakers:
TC – Timothy Chaisson
TC: Fifteen years ago they didn't really know if we were even going to pursue fiddle music at all, and I think they were really worried because at the time they didn't know if it was going to keep going..