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CA BI T-248 · Item · 1971
Part of Sound and Moving Image Collection

Item is an audio recording of an interview with Sr. Margaret Beaton by Ann Terry MacLellan for CJCB, on the Xavier College Children's Gaelic Class. Includes audio of a concert at the Steelworkers' Hall, recorded by Angus John Smith of the BBC:
Brochan Lom
Siream Sios, Siream Suas
Ho ro mo nighean donn bhoidheach
Interview with MacLellan, Ann Terry continues.

MacLellan, Ann Terry
CA BI FT-18a · Item · Aug. 1985
Part of Sound and Moving Image Collection

Item is a recording of people arriving at the Sydney VIA railway station for the Sydney-Toronto West Indian reunion held in Whitney Pier in August 1985. The event was organized by Malcolm Streete and Jerome Moe, in cooperation with the St. Phillip's African Orthodox Church. The video footage was taken by Art Fennell.

Fennell, Art
CA BI FT-18b · Item · Aug. 1985
Part of Sound and Moving Image Collection

Item is a recording that includes footage of a parade and people gathering at the St. Phillip's African Orthodox Church as a part of the West Indian reunion held in Whitney Pier in August 1985. The event was organized by Malcolm Streete and Jerome Moe, in cooperation with the St. Phillip's African Orthodox Church. The video footage was taken by Art Fennell.

Fennell, Art
CA BI T-3143 · Item · 1968
Part of Sound and Moving Image Collection

Item is an audio recording of a conert held at the West Bay Road Parish Hall. Performers include: Alec Francis Mac Kay, Theresa Mac Lellan, Henry Mac Kinnon, Lionel Owen, Debbie and Viola mac Donald, Mrs. Bessie Mac Eachern, Ron Reilly, Donnie Mac Donald, Elliot Mac Donald, The Best Family

Side A: Introduction by M.C. Violin selections performed by Alec Francis Mac Kay with Theresa Mac Lellan, piano, later joined by stepdancer Henry Mac Kinnon. Lionel Owen performs a number of piano pieces. Viola and Debbie Mac Donald sing "Farewell to Nova Scotia" and "Dan O' Hara" Mrs. Bessie Mac Eachern sings "I Know My Love" in Gaelic. Theresa Mac Lellan and Ron Reilly perform piano and fiddle selections. [Sound is distorted on final third of Side A of tape]. Side B: The Best Family perform "Loch Lomond" and Bonny Lassie". Ross Mac Donald sings a Gaelic song. Donnie Mac Donald, violin, and Theresa Mac Lellan, piano, play Scottish music for stepdancer Eliot Mac Donald. Bessie Mac Eachern sings a song in Gaelic, followed by Viola and Debbie Mac Donald singing the English version. [Sound distortion on this part of tape from overlapping channels]. Lionel Owen plays honky-tonk piano numbers. [Remaining tape has sound distortion to its conclusion].

CA BI T-2069 · Item · 1982
Part of Sound and Moving Image Collection

Item is an audio recording of interviews with Carl MacKenzie, Charlie MacKenzie, Malcolm MacDonald and Josie Maclean of Washabuck, N.S.

Carl MacKenzie:

His grandfather, Charles "Framer" MacKenzie came from Kintyle, Scotland, first to Margaree, then to Washabuct

Talk about his musical background and family

There is a Washabuct fiddle style

His violin style influenced by Scotty Fitzgerald and Budy MacMaster

Talks about the good old-fashoined home parties

Charlie MacKenzie:

Recites two poems he composed

Talks about his mother washing clothes in the brook years ago

Recites another poem, "Blackbirds", also his own composition

tells of his mother singing Gaelic songs while she worked, spinning etc.

Malcolm MacDonald:

Talks about the old farms, now closed, how hard the pioneers worked

The house ceilidhs; fishing in the area

The store in Washabuct at one time

The Bard MacLean

"Lazy Stick" - a game they played

The browns - tricks people would play on them

Josie MacLean:

The one-room school she attended Formation of the Home & School Association

Joe MacLean :

Talks about Lauchlin MacLean - he arrived from Barra in 1817 - his family

Laughlin MacLean died at the age of 114

Other pioneer familes

Snow storms in previous years

Early mail service - by boat to Baddeck, also by hourse & buggy

CBC Radio
CA BI T-554 · Item · 1977
Part of Sound and Moving Image Collection

Item is an audio recording of violin selections by Sandy MacIntyre.

Recording summary:
Violin selections:
Anderson's Blight
Crossing to Ireland, Cooly's Reel
Georgie Leadbeater trad. C.B. Jig
The Bee's Wing Hornpipe; Lady Montgomery
Stirling Castle strathspey; Merry Boys o' Greenland
Earl of Crawford
Neil Gow's Lament for his Second Wife

CA BI T-130 · Item · 1976
Part of Sound and Moving Image Collection

Item is an audio recording of violin selections performed by Mary MacDonald, with piano accompaniment by Margaret MacPhee.

Recording Summary:

  • Highlander's Farewell to Ireland
  • King George IV
  • Old Kings Reel
  • Carlisle Lasses
  • Traditional strathspey
  • The Haggis Reel
  • Mrs. Fleming of Moness
  • Mrs. Hamilton of Wishaw
  • Traditional reel
  • The Cumberland, or Miss Gibson Reel
  • Trip to Mabou Ridge March
CA BI T-153 · Item · 1976
Part of Sound and Moving Image Collection

Item is an audio recording of violin selections performed by Mary MacDonald. High bass strathspeys, piano accompaniment by Margaret MacPhee.

Recording summary:
Miss Drummond of Perth; Mason's Apron; trad. reel.
Maggie Cameron; The Devil in the Kitchen; 2 trad.
reels
The Braes of Marr; Charlie Stewart; Trad. reel
2 Trad. reels
Bundle and Go
Strathspeys & reels (trad.)
The Drover Lads (jig)
Tullochgorum (trad. setting); Lord MacDonald's Reel;
Miss Johnson's Reel
Strath. & reel (trad.)
Miss Lyall; King's Reel
Lady Ann Hope; Trad. strath.
Johnny Pringle strath.
The Breas of Marr; Charlie Stewart; trad. reel
Christie Campbell; Anthony Murray; trad. reel (high
bass)
Strath. & reel - high bass
Greig's Pipes - reel
Miss Drummond of Perth; Mason's Apron
Sleepy Maggie; Muillean Dubh
The Laird of Drumblair
West Mabou Reel
Johnny Gilbraith
Reel of Tulloch
The Ewe with the Crooked Horn; Col. MacBain Reel
Delvin Side; Bog an Lochan; Flora MacDonald's Reel;
Miss Lyall; King George V; Old King's Reel

CA BI T-865 · Item · Mar. 1974
Part of Sound and Moving Image Collection

Item is an audio recording of violin selections by John Campbell, includes strathspeys, reels, marches, and jigs. Piano accompaniment by Maybelle Doyle. The home recording was by Maybelle Chisholm Doyle (McQueen).

McQueen, Maybelle Chisholm
CA BI T-985 · Item · 1974
Part of Sound and Moving Image Collection

Item is an audio recording of violin selections - Jigs, marches, waltz, strathspeys, reels - by Duncan MacQuarrie, with piano accompaniment by Margaret MacPhee. This music was taped in New Waterford on Mr. MacQuarrie's ninetieth birthday, Sept. 1, 1974.

CA BI T-381 · Item · 1972
Part of Sound and Moving Image Collection

Item is an audio recording of violin selections by Dan R. MacDonald, recorded in his home by Bessie MacEachern:
Jigs: Miss MacDonald's Irish Jig; Trip to Toronto (Ont.) (Donald A. Beaton)
Glencoe March; River side strath.; Walker's cove reel (all 3 by Dan R. MacDonald)
Jigs: Miss Mary Beaton; Cleveland: Creignish jigs; (composed by Dan R.)
Hector and the Hero; Sandy Cameron strath.; Master Andrew Grant reel
Lord Lovat's Lament; Marquis of Huntley's Snuff Mill; Miss Grant's reel
Robert Cormack; Peter Laing's Strath.
Mr. J.A. Wilkens; Dr. Keith Aberdeen; Carnie's Cantor
Marnock's Strath.; King George IV; King's Reel; Perthshire Hunt

This audio recording is available for research and study purposes: T-381 [http://beaton.cbu.ca/AtoM/audio/T-381-Side1.mp3 and http://beaton.cbu.ca/AtoM/audio/T-381-Side2.mp3]

MacEachern, Elizabeth
CA BI T-864 · Item · Mar. 1974
Part of Sound and Moving Image Collection

Item is an audio recording of violin selections by Cameron Chisholm on the violin, includes strathspeys, reels, jigs, and slow airs. Piano accompaniment by Maybelle Doyle. The home recording was by Maybelle Chisholm Doyle (McQueen).

McQueen, Maybelle Chisholm
CA BI T-317 · Item
Part of Sound and Moving Image Collection

Item is an audio recording of violin selections performed by Billy MacPhee.

Recording summary:
Violin selections - Skye Gathering; Hoch, Miss Wedderburn reel
Violin selections - Cameron's Got His Wife Again:
Homeward Bound reel
Violin selections - Road to the Isles
Violin selections - Charlie Hunter's Jig; Trad. Jig
Violin selections - Inverness Jig; Baddeck Gathering
Violin selections - King George IV; King's Reel
Violin selections - Duke of Gordon's Birthday; The
Mabou Reel; Lord MacDonald; Trad. Reel
Violin selections - Jig

CA BI T-863 · Item · Mar. 1974
Part of Sound and Moving Image Collection

Item is an audio recording of violin selections by Angus Chisholm on the violin, includes slow airs, jigs, strathspeys, and reels. Piano accompaniment by Mary Jessie MacDonald. The home recording was by Maybelle Chisholm Doyle (McQueen).

McQueen, Maybelle Chisholm
CA BI T-364 · Item · 1972
Part of Sound and Moving Image Collection

Item is an audio recording of a number of fiddlers and Gaelic singers. Features:

MacKay, Alex Francis - Violin Selections
MacKay, Alex Francis - Violin Selections
MacKay, Alex Francis - Violin Selections
MacKay, Alex Francis - Violin Selections
MacKay, Alex Francis - Violin Selections
MacKay, Alex Francis - Violin Selections
Chisholm, Angus - Violin Selections
Chisholm, Angus - Violin Selections
MacEachern, Dan H. - Violin Selections
MacEachern, Dan H. - Violin Selections
MacEachern, Dan H. - Violin Selections
MacEachern, Dan H. - Violin Selections
MacMillan, Rev. Allan - Cailin mo Run-sa
MacEachern, Rev. John H. - Chi Mi Bhuam
Williams, John
Williams, John - Bithibh Aotrom 's Togaibh Fonn

MacEachern, Elizabeth
CA BI T-364 · Item · 1972
Part of Sound and Moving Image Collection

Item is an audio recording of songs and tunes by Alex Francis MacKay, Angus Chisholm, Dan Hughie MacEachern, Fr. Allan MacMillan, Rev. John H. MacEachern, and John Williams. The tape was recorded by Elizabeth MacEachern.

Recording summary:

MacKay, Alex Francis, Violin selections, Slow air
MacKay, Alex Francis , Duke of Gordon's Strathspey
MacKay, Alex Francis , Reels, including Lord MacDonald, West Mabou reel
MacKay, Alex Francis, March, strathspeys, reels, King George IV and Miss Lyall's strathspeys, King's reel
MacKay, Alex Francis, Strathspeys and reels, Captain Campbell Strathspey, Muillean Dubh
MacKay, Alex Francis, Strathspeys, Clach na Cudain, Lady Mary Ramsay
Chisholm, Angus, Violin selections, incl. Tulloch Gorm
Chisholm, Angus, Mocking Bird Accompanied by John Allan Cameron, guitar
MacEachern, Dan H., Traditional jigs
MacEachern, Dan H., Marches, Captain Campbell and Colonel Stockwell's Marches
MacEachern, Dan H., Strathspey and reels, MacBeth's Strathspey and Archie Brown's reel
MacEachern, Dan H., Strathspeys, Christy Campbell, Miller of Drone
MacMillan, Rev. Allan, Song: Cailin mo ruin-sa, Love song
MacEachern, Rev. John H., Gaelic song composed for Bishop Malcolm MacEachern
Williams, John, Song, Title unknown, learned from his mother
Williams, John, Glendale, Bithibh aotrom 's togaibh fonn, Milling song

Violin selections
CA BI T-1028 · Item · 1975
Part of Sound and Moving Image Collection

Item is an audio recording of violin selections by Angus Chisholm.

Recording summary:
Chisholm, Angus - Jigs, strathspeys, reels, etc. - Piano accompaniment by Doug MacPhee
Violin selections - Chisholm, Angus - Jigs, strathspeys, reels, etc. - Piano accompaniment by Doug MacPhee
Violin selections - Fest. Of Fiddlers, 1973 - Jigs, strathspeys, reels, etc. - Piano accompaniment by Maybelle Doyle