Transcript

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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 there's so much life into it and all his emotion is into the music that he's one of the most enjoyable fiddlers to listen to. That's the funny part of it, and most people hear that and they don't realize that, but once they hear it in real life they understand what it's all about. Like Héllène's father, the lady that dances with us this summer, her father Eddy Arsenault – Like Eddy's not an Itzhak Perlman by any means, but a few classical musicians came down last summer and heard him and thought, "this guy is unbelievable." They could see right through the technique into what - How he really felt about the music.