Versatile Newfoundland fiddler turned down a chance to join Hank Snow in Nashville

JOAN SULLIVAN 

Donald Randell was a musician steeped in a genre of Newfoundland music that is not often classified as ''Newfoundland music.'' The self-taught fiddler played country and western, honky-tonk, jigs and reels, swing dance, and bluegrass, the eclectic spectrum of music radio stations played through the 1940s to 1960s in Newfoundland.

I REMEMBER / JACK NICHOLS

Jim Beebe 

Jim Beebe remembers Jack Nichols, whose obituary appeared Nov. 7.I was very fortunate to have had an opportunity to know and admire Jack Nichols. He was a friend of my parents and I grew up living with his work in our house.