She appears in concert with her husband in Sarnia April 1 and in Chatham May 12. March 19, in London March 20, Toronto March 21, Peterborough March 22, Kingston March 24 and Ottawa March 26. I just love it.”įor tour dates visit and look for MacMaster and Leahy on a national Christmas tour with their kids in November and Dates It is still a thrill to perform or to sit down with my fiddle and have an idea about a tune to write. This article was originally published in Maclean's Magazine on March 6, 2000. But MacMaster is doing just fine as the embodiment of sweetness and light. As an artist over the years making music and writing it just never stops. Natalie MacMaster (Profile) It may have seemed, with the headline-grabbing antics of Ashley MacIsaac, that gifted Cape Breton fiddlers had to have a dark side. “Over the years I think we’ve gotten better mostly at listening to one another while we play but also creating arrangements so that it highlights one another’s music.”Ī: “Musically speaking it’s always a growth, which I love.
“There was no pressure on us to do something together other than the pressure just created by the two of us wanting to record together.” With Natalie and Donnell as one entity there was nothing, it didn’t really exist,” she said. I have been doing about 100 shows a year for the last 10 years but as far as recording, with the Natalie McMaster brand and the Leahy brand, both of us had reasons to record, bands and tours booked and record companies and agents and all that. Q: Why did it take so long to get together on your first album One, released in April 2015?Ī: “I’ve just been either pregnant or nursing. They dated for two months, he proposed and they were married five months later when she was 30. He was in town and he called me and said ‘I’m back in town do you want to have dinner?'” “We dated for two years and then we broke up for 10 years,” MacMaster said referring to their young ages as the main reason for the decade-long pause.Ī: “Same thing. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.
NATALIE MACMASTER TOUR 2015 TV
Natalie MacMaster is a globally-acclaimed Cape Breton fiddle player who has appeared on numerous CBC, CTV, and PBS TV shows and sold over 200,000 albums. Being part of musical families, Natalie and Donnell were born into their musical careers. The first couple of contemporary Celtic music. The tradition was on the wane when, in 1972, a CBS documentary provocatively titled The Vanishing Cape Breton Fiddler jump-started preservation efforts in the fiddling community. Natalie MacMaster and Donnell Leahy have received both industry-acclaim and a loyal fan base by combining their magnificent individual talents, giving audiences an unforgettable musical experience every performance. The niece of renowned Canadian fiddler Buddy MacMaster, she's taken up the mantle as standard-bearer for Cape Breton fiddling, a method of Scottish-style violin-playing that's evolved over the last century on this island neighbor to Nova Scotia. But Natalie MacMaster manages this feat, drawing listeners in with her playful showmanship, and then holding them rapt with astounding technical flourishes. It's not easy to make traditional Irish-Scottish music sound sexy and yet still seem wholesome.
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