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File: gaudetdavid06-oh-declineandrevival_M.mp3
Speakers:
DG – David Gaudet
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
DG: When I was growing up to be a fiddler, there wasn't many around then. There's wasn't a big demand then. I wouldn't even take the fiddle to a party if there was a bunch my age
File: dayivan06-oh-findingthefiddler_M.mp3
ID – Ivan Day
JG – John Gauthier
ID: I remember there was a party back in Frank Murphy's one night up in Norboro, and they come to me, got me out of bed at 10 or 10:30. They want to have a dance back there. A bunch of them got together and
File: macintyrestewart-oh-farmlife_M.mp3
Speakers:
SM – Stewart MacIntyre
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
KP: If you lived on a farm when you were young about how many hours a day would you be working?
SM: There was really no such thing as as hours, it was sunrise
File: farrellleo06-oh-houseparties_M.mp3
Speakers:
LF – Leo Farrell
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
KP: Tell me about the house dances in your community?
LF: Well, put the table in the woodshed or outside in the summertime, haul the chairs all out and
File: cheveriecharles-oh-alchohol_violence_M.mp3
Speakers:
CC – Fr. Charlie Cheverie
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
CC: On the Island in particular, in the Prohibition days in particular, a lot of the drinking was done – First of all, drinking was done; people drank. But it
File: doucettejoe-oh-howlearned.mp3
Speakers:
JD – Joe Doucette
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
JD: I was 6 years old.
KP: How did you go about learning to play the fiddle?
JD: How'd I go about it? Go hide somewheres with the
File: leckyharry06_withrcook-oh-weddings_dances_M.mp3
Speakers:
HL – Harry Lecky
RC – Roland Cook
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
HL: Yhe weddings, at our church it'd be in the morning, and generally a party that night
KP: What was the party
File: morrisseyjohnny-oh-gettingstarted_M.mp3
Speakers:
JM – Johnny Morrissey
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
KP: How old were you when you took up the fiddle?
JM Oh I guess I was about 15 or 16. I've been playing that long and [inaudible]. I played for the first dance in Iona
File: farrellleo06-oh-gettingstarted_M.mp3
Speakers:
LF – Leo Farrell
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
LF: Well I'll tell you, my mother was a Woods from Miscouche. And after church – we're Catholics, I don't know what you are but it don't make no difference anyhow. After
File: jonesandrew-oh-steannechanges_M.mp3
Speakers:
AJ – Andrew Jones
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
KP That's a very nice version of that tune.
AJ Yeah? We used to play [it] the old way -- I mean when it was first written it was kind of a …
File: smithtony06-oh-steannetwists_M.mp3
Speakers:
TS – Tony Smith
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
KP: A lot of fiddlers have commented about – That no two fiddlers play…
TS: The same.
KP: They might play the tunes the same way but they all
File: macdonaldhilda-oh-jimmysimmons_M.mp3
Speakers:
HM – Hilda MacPhee MacDonald
GM – George MacPhee (Hilda's nephew)
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
HM: Oh Jimmy Simmons, he was the best fiddler that ever was heard of I suppose, anywheres around. Yeah. Oh my God he was great
File: cheveriecharles06-oh-future_M.mp3
Speakers:
CC – Fr. Charles Cheverie
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
CC: I think it's going to flourish. There's enough interest in younger players that they will develop. Again, you're going to get all kinds of players that will play at it as
File: macdonaldfaber-oh-foundingfiddlerssociety_M.mp3
Speakers:
FM – Rev. Faber MacDonald
FM I simply got the inspiration or the idea one day that it might be a good idea to bring the fiddlers together, to bring together as many fiddlers as we could find that we knew played at
File: macleandanny-oh-houseparties_M.mp3
Speakers:
DM – Danny MacLean
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
KP: How often would they be having house parties in the Eldon area when you were growing up?
DM: Well there was pretty near always a party somewhere pretty near