Natalie MacMaster’s voice is smoky and rueful in that way only a nagging throat ailment can bring on. Plus, she’s seven months pregnant, touring North America right up to the holidays, and getting ...
Four decades ago, a Bostonian named Charles MacMaster sent a gift of four fiddles to his family back home in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. He had good reason to ship those instruments to Maritime Canada: ...
Donnell Leahy begins playing the fiddle as his wife Natalie MacMaster sways, eyes closed, to the sound of the music with her own fiddle resting on her shoulder. Soon she joins in and the sounds of ...
Although Natalie MacMaster fits comfortably in the category of Celtic fiddler, her music has been a balancing act between breaking new ground and hewing to a traditional approach. MacMaster grew up in ...
In 1972, CBC aired a documentary called the Vanishing Cape Breton Fiddler, which lamented the decline of traditional fiddle music in Cape Breton, N.S. That same year, Natalie MacMaster — one of Canada ...
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