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File: chappellella06-oh-womensinsitute_M.mp3
Speakers:
EC – Ella Thomson Chappell
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
EC: There was the Women's Institute. Well you see, the men had to take them in the winter time.
KP: Tell me a little bit about the women's Institute
File: wilsonteresa-oh-lordmacd_M.mp3
Speakers:
TW – Teresa MacPhee Wilson
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
TW Back years ago they used to have fiddlers' contests
KP Yeah.
TW And you had to be able to play Lord MacDonald's Reel before you were
File: arsenaultlouise-oh-twists.wav
LA: So I mean, every fiddler is different, that's for sure, there's not one fiddler that plays the same as you. I would listen to Eddy Arsenault play and I would learn that tune, but I would play it a different way. And then all of a sudden I
File: raffertyervin06-oh-winterfarmwork_M.mp3
Speakers:
ER – Ervan Rafferty
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
ER: Well the people, they would haul marsh hay. They used to get the marsh hay 'cause it was great for milk cows, make them drink water, instead of the the salt cakes that they
File: stewartarchie-oh-playinglively.mp3
Speaker:
AS - Archie Stewart
AS: You get some kind of a message from your music through the people. I've seen this happen. I've seen at a dance hall where the people would be all sittin' around and nobody would be up dancin', and the thing'd
