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Descriptive Title	Dancing and the Combden family: accordion playing with Melvin Combden, Seldom-Come-By
Topic	Music and song Dance
Person as Topic	Combden, Melvin
Description	Melvin Combden speaks of his second cousin Harry Budgel, who was a good accordion player and step dancer. Discussion of square dancing and step dancing; he has never seen "stepping on the plate" but heard of it when he was growing up. Apparently done on the Southern Shore.
Date	2007-07-18
Collector	Power, Maureen Osborne, Evelyn, 1975-
Informant	Combden, Melvin
Biographical Data	Melvin Combden lives on Fogo Island in the community of Seldom-Come-By. Born in 1944, he was originally from Wild Cove, which was resettled by the government during the 1950-60s. He has three children, two boys and a girl. His wife, Velma, is also from Fogo Island. Melvin is a builder and is currently building punts. He also teaches traditional row punt building at the Fogo Central Academy High School. He used to fish with his father and his brother out of Seldom-Come-By, but when the fishery closed he took a course in carpentry in order to get his trade papers. Melvin's father was a boat builder which is how he and his brother, also a boat builder, learned the trade. Melvin picked up the accordion as a young boy in Wild Cove and continues to play today, including at festivals on Fogo Island.
Location Depicted/Discussed	Canada--Newfoundland--Fogo Island--Seldom-Come-By
Format	Video/wmv
Extent	01:36 minutes; 17.4 MB
Type	Moving Image
Resource Type	Video
Identifier	ICHFP00133
Language	Eng
Repository	Memorial University of Newfoundland. Folklore and Language Archive. Fogo Island Collection 2007-225
Collection	Intangible Cultural Heritage Inventory - Central Newfoundland
Topic.LCSH	Step dancing Square dancing
Downloadable	Yes

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