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THE FIDDLERS' CONVENTION
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Season's Ha rest Treat Announced
lor Tuesday Evening: Next
TUESDAY evening
next, March 25, is the
Date, Carolina Music
Hall the Place, and the
annual Convention of
Native Fiddlers and
Banjo Pickers the
Event; the rarest treat
of all the year, f From
good old Scotland the custom has been
handed down, and as redolent with the
spirit of the Highlands it is today as it
was in distant 1700.
In this connection interesting histor
ical facts concerning the people and the
section and the convention itself were
read by Mr. Leonard Tufts last year,
which are especially apropos in this ad
vance announcement. 1 The battle of
Culloden in Scotland, in 1746, was the
decisive battle in the long struggle be
tween the reigDing House of Hanover
and the House of Stuart, and in this
battle the Scotch who fought for Prince
Charles Stuart were completely routed
and large numbers of them emigrated to
this country. King George II of Eng
land was anxious to capture Prince
Charles Stuart, but Flora McDonald, a
young Scotch woman, disguised him a3
her servant, and embarked with him to
France. Afterward she returned to
Scotland, was arrested and placed in the
tower of London. On being asked by
his majesty why she aided his enemy,
she replied, " I did for him, sire, no more
than I would do for you, if you needed
my help." His majesty was so pleased
that he liberated her, and soon she mar
ried Allen McDonald and they joined
their Highland friends who had settled
in this section.
The different sections of North Caro
lina were settled by emigrants from dif
ferent countries, and the boundaries of
these are nearly as distinct today as they
were one hundred years ago. The peo
ple of this section were and are almost
entirely Scotch, and the customs they
brought from their native country have
been handed down from father to son.
As they did not travel, and as they
fought every outsider who tried to settle
here, the customs have changed but
little, and it is said that one can get a
better idea of what Scotland was in 1750
here than by visiting Scotland. Gaelic
is still spoken by a few old men in this
section, and only fifty years ago the ser
vice was preached in Gaelic. The hand
loom and spinning wheel are still used
and some of the old people still adhere
to the quaint customs of the Highlands.
One of the customs that was brought
over is the Fiddlers' Convention, which
is a contest to see which is the best fid
dler of the section. The method of hold
ing the instrument is the same as was
used in Scotland by the men who fiddled
for reels. And when you consider that
it is necessary to make the music loud
enough to be heard above the noise of
thirty or forty heavy boots executing a
reel, and that these continued for hours,
you can readily understand that the
method of holding the instrument, we are
familiar with, would take the strength
and endurance of a Sandow. The airs are
mostly music used for dancing the old
Scotch reels, and many of them are un
questionably the same as were played in
the Highlands of Scotland in 1700. Each
generation has taught the next and very
few of the airs have ever been written,
and probably none of the players can
read music written for a violin.
It is customary to open the Convention
by all playing the same air, "The Missis
sippi Sawyer," and then each player in
turn plays a piece and is judged as to his
ability. The name of each contestant
and the piece he selects will be an
nounced by the judges before each num
ber. Each contestant will be limited to
five minutes, and the judges will be al
lowed to call on each as many times as
they desire. While the judges are mak
ing their decisions some of the fiddlers
have volunteered to play duets and
dance. Each player will be paid one
dollar and there will be three prizes for
the fiddlers of five dollars, three dollars
and two dollars, and two for the banjo
pickers of three dollars and two dollars.
Arrangements have been made for sev
eral banjo players which is a more mod
ern instrument and is now usually intro
duced into a Fiddlers' Convention. The
object of the collection to be taken is to
aid the Public School, which is doing
such good work among the children.
in iioxor of st. Patrick
(Concluded from page one)
dler; Frank Courtney, Hod Carrier;
Gerald Sylvester, " Coon" ; James Aus
tin, Mexican Gentleman; G. W. Scott,
Tin Whistle Golfer; Wm. Jordan, Par
cels Post.
The list of prize winners included the
following : Firsts William Jordan, An
drew Amazeen, Luella Smith, May
Kelleher, Mabel Hutchinson, Goldie
Davis, Catherine Murphy, Elizabeth
Murray, Beatrice Joyce, May Hopkins,
Catherine McAnney, Margaret Folger,
Alice Bland, Belle Breslin, Carl Nelson,
George Scott, Charles Morrissey.
Seconds James Austin, John Gilli
gan, Mary Breslin, Mary Gaughan,
Celia Walsh, Inez Stewart, Lizzie Carter,
Annie Rollins, II. J. Fiske, Catherine
Kennedy, Lewis Warren, Nellie Aldrich,
Maude Mullen, Mae Burke, Lillian Mc
Anney, Marjorie McAnney, ilenry Piper,
John Moylan, Ilenry liuell, Gladys Gar
dyne, Annie Devine, Loretta Watters.
Thirds Edna Gardyne, Eliza Hutch
inson, Delia Burke, Mary Murphy,
Madge Smith, Anna Ilildreth, Dora
Crull, Katherine Kelley, William Moy
lan, William Downing, Frank Courtney,
Carrie Egan, Delia Conroy, Laura Wil
liamson, Mary Walsh, Beatrice Reynolds,
Katherine Elvin, Katherine McDonald,
Annie Wright and Edith Marsh.
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