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File: chaissonkevin-oh-pnoruns.mp3

Speakers:

KC — Kevin Chaisson

KC It's always in the background with the fiddle. The fiddle is — Stands out, and the piano is always in the background. But the thing that I like to do is — I don't even know what you call it. It's kinda like maybe a chord

File: gauthierjohn06-oh-houseparties_fights_M.mp3

Speakers:

JG – John Gauthier

ID – Ivan Day

KP: Curator Ken Perlman

KP: Did they have house parties?

JG: Oh very much so, my earliest dances I played were house dances.

File: doironpeter-oh-housedances_M.mp3

Speakers:

PD – Peter Doiron

PD: There'd be house dances back then mostly. And if there were tea parties or picnics, they would have a stage outside where they would, I think,

charge so much to get on the stage. And they would dance

File: dockendorffharold06-oh-playingfordances_M.mp3

Speakers:

HD – Harold Dockendorff

KP: Did your parents play music at all?

HD: No. There was no music in the family, except my youngest brother he learned to play the Hawaiian guitar with the steel bar. And I

File: cheverieomar06-oh-neilcheverie_M.mp3

Speakers:

OC – Omar Cheverie

KP – Curator Ken Perlman

OC: Well, in his time everybody thought he was exceptional because he seemed to be a bit above the rest. He could cut and do things with the bow that most other fiddlers around

File: macleanclarence06-oh-learningtunes_M.mp3

Speakers:

CM – Clarence MacLean

KP: How did you go about learning tunes? Did you have them in your head?

CM: Yeah.

KP: Some fiddlers said they'd wake up in the middle of the night…