#MACMASTER FIDDLER PROFESSIONAL#
Featuring MacMaster and Leahy’s children as well as professional dancers and singers from Cape Breton and Lakefield, Ontario, the production incorporates song, dance, and fiddling all together. Visions from Cape Breton and Beyond brings the powerful fiddlers together for a night that explores their musical and familial roots. Leahy toured as the opening act for country singer Shania Twain’s “Come On Over” world tour and earned a number of Juno Awards for Best New Group, Best Instrumental Album, and more. Her husband, Donnell Leahy is the leader of the famous musical family group, Leahy, featuring eight brothers and sisters. (Handout / The Windsor Star) Reviews and recommendations are unbiased. She played the fiddle publicly for the first time at a Glencoe Mills square dance. Canadian fiddler Natalie MacMaster (right) with her husband and fellow fiddler Donnell Leahy (left) in a promotional image. She was won multiple Artist of the Year awards from the East Coast Music Association. Over the years, MacMaster has toured with a number of major artists, including Alison Krauss, Carlos Santana, and Yo-Yo Ma. Natalie MacMaster, CM is an award-winning fiddler from the rural community of Troy in Inverness County, Nova Scotia, Canada who plays Cape Breton fiddle music. Her style, the Cape Breton fiddle style, is tied to her Celtic roots and is often associated with the Cape Breton version of step dancing, line dancing, and highland dancing. From that time Buddys reputation as a fiddler spread up and down the Judique line. She has received numerous awards of her artistic career, including Artist of the Year award from the East Coast Music Association and an induction into the Order of Canada. Bringing instrumental music to the mainstream is all that this artists Natalie MacMaster is about. In 1938, a 15 year old Buddy MacMaster boarded The Judique Flyer to. Individually celebrated as two of the greatest fiddlers in the world, MacMaster and Leahy have now come together and combined their talents in this breathtaking musical performance that masterfully integrates the duo’s diverse French, Celtic, and Cajun musical styles.Īn award-winning Canadian fiddler, Natalie MacMaster began playing at the age of nine and released her first album, Four on the Floor, at the age sixteen.
In this brand new show starring Natalie MacMaster and Donnell Leahy, prepare to be taken on a journey across the coastline of Nova Scotia as the fiddling family explores their Celtic roots.
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