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File: mcquaidjenny-oh-musicinhome_M.mp3

Speakers:

JM — Jenny O'Hanley McQuaid

TW — Teresa MacPhee Wilson

JM In those times, I remember — JD MacAdam and Chester played the organ, and JD played the fiddle and Albina stepdanced, she was a real good step dancer: a woman, Albina

File: morrisonrita-oh--womanfiddling_M.mp3

Speakers:

RM – Rita Morrison

KP – Curator Ken Perlman

RM But they weren't encouraged as much maybe, were they?

KP I don't know! What do you think?

RM Well, it's like everything else now. There'

File: macdonaldjoe-oh-nellybanks.mp3

Speakers:
JM – Joe MacDonald

KP – Curator Ken Perlman

JM: It was dry then, dry as could be. But there was a few years later then the rum started to come in. Capt. Dicks used to be up here with the Nellie J. Banks.

KP: I

File: myersfenner06-oh-gettingstarted_M.mp3

Speakers:

FM – Fenner Myers

JD – Jim Dobson

KP – Curator Ken Perlman

KP: Was there music in your house when you were growing up?

FM: Yeah

KP : What kind of music was there?

File: cranerobert06-oh-fiddlerspay_M.mp3

Speakers:

RC – Robert Crane

RC: I played with my Dad for a lot of weddings. Oh, the old fashioned weddings was great. One weddin' him and I played when I was only young. And he was rakin' hay with the old horse and rake, and I was kylin' hay in

File: mcpheehugh06-oh-familyorigins_M.mp3

Speakers:

HM – Hughie McPhee

KP – Curator Ken Perlman

HM: I guess it started, probably started when Wolfe was in Quebec. In Wolfe's Army, they had a pipe regiment and my great, great uncle was a piper there with him. His nephew, Archie

File: macdonaldfrancis-oh-musicinfamily_M.mp3

Speakers:

FM – Francis MacDonald

FM My father's family, it was his mother that actually taught him how to play. And it was in her side of the family, the MacDonalds on her side of the family that were the musicians more so than my father'