Right on. A couple of years ago the CBC broadcast a terrific PEI (Prince Edward Island) kitchen party with fiddler Eddy Arsenault and his extended family--just the greatest music thing I've ever heard on radio a whole hour, and I realized "I've been in that kitchen!" It was at the house of Helene Bergeron (Eddy Arsenault's daughter) and Grady Poe, who we met years ago when they were doing -- big surprise -- "kitchen parties" for tourists at resorts around the Island. We were somewhat threadbare off-season tourists at the time. Got to chatting, and Grady and I discovered we not only had a common friend, but had both been introduced to traditional music by him (Nathan Curry). So they lent us their cottage on Northumberland Strait for the weekend. (I thanked Nathan next time I saw him.) Swell folks, and they're doing real well now with Barachois.
PEI fiddling is great--largely Scottish but with somewhat more Acadian in the mix than Cape Breton, and less technical.

So, if you can have a kitchen party at a resort, I guess you can have one on a pier...

Bill