![]() Indeed, when MacMaster and Leahy married in 2002 - both were already stars in their own right - they could not have predicted their merger would recast what contemporary musical success looks like. Hearing Natalie MacMaster and Donnell Leahy speak reverentially about the fiddle, which has propelled their dazzling careers since childhood while cementing their status as Canada’s reigning couple of Celtic music, is almost as electrifying as hearing them play it. Retrieved December 7, 2020.Natalie MacMaster & Donnell Leahy – A Celtic Family Christmas "Order of Nova Scotia recipients-2020". ^ "Governor General to invest 41 recipients into the Order of Canada" (Press release).^ "A Celtic Celebration with Natalie MacMaster" (Press release).Archived from the original on February 3, 2000. "Live Reviews: The 1999 Juno Awards MaCopps Coliseum, Hamilton, ON". ^ According to original cassette jacket."REVIEW: Step-dancing violinists earn standing ovation in A Celtic Celebration at Lied Center". "MacMaster and Leahy have combined their love of music with their love of family". ^ "White Stripes Gear up for Canada, Find Family Along the Way".Thomas Dolby: Amerikana EP, Songs: Toad Lickers and 17 Hills, 2010 (Lost Toy People, Inc).Yo-Yo Ma & Friends: Songs of Joy and Peace Songs:A Christmas Jig/Mouth of the Tobique Reel 2008 (Sony BMG).The Rough Guide to the Music of Canada, 2005 (one track).Celtic Colours - Volume VII, 2003 (one track).Celtic Colours - The Colours of Cape Breton, 2002 (one track).Roots Music: An American Journey, Rounder 0501, 2001 (one track).Celtic Colours – Forgotten Roots, 1999 (one track).Celtic Colours – The Second Wave, 1998 (one track).Celtic Colours – The Road Home, 1997 (one track).Traditional Music From Cape Breton Island, Nimbus NI5383, 1993 (two tracks).Other appearances MacMaster at Merlefest, 2004 "Get Me Through December" (with Alison Krauss) Natalie & Buddy MacMaster: Traditional Music from Cape Breton IslandĪ Celtic Family Christmas (with Donnell Leahy) In 2006, she was made a member of the Order of Canada and, in 2020, she was made a member of the Order of Nova Scotia. She was also awarded an honorary doctorate from Niagara University in New York in 2006. MacMaster has received a number of Canadian music awards, including several "Artist of the Year" awards from the East Coast Music Association, two Juno Awards for best instrumental album, and "Fiddler of the Year" from the Canadian Country Music Association. She performed two songs with the trio, "C-H-I-C-K-E-N" and "Grandpa's Farm". In 2004, MacMaster appeared on Sharon, Lois & Bram's 25th Anniversary Concert special titled 25 Years of Skinnamarink that was broadcast on CBC on January 1, 2004, at 7:00pm. ![]() In recent years she has expanded her musical repertoire, mixing her Cape Breton roots with music from Scotland and Ireland, as well as American bluegrass. In 1999, she performed at the Juno Awards show in Hamilton. Both albums were initially released only on cassette, but Rounder Records omitted a few tracks and re-released them as A Compilation in 1998. Her first album was self-produced, while her second was co-produced by John Morris Rankin ( The Rankin Family) and Tom O'Keefe. When she was 16, she released her first album, Four on the Floor, and a second album, Road to the Isle, followed in 1991. MacMaster began playing the fiddle at the age of nine, and made her performing debut the same year at a square dance in Glencoe Mills, Nova Scotia. They have seven children, and have performed and recorded together as a duo, and occasionally include their children, who also play fiddle, in their performances. ![]() In 2002, she married the fiddler Donnell Leahy of the Leahy family band, and moved to Lakefield, Ontario. She is also distantly related to Jack White. She is the niece of the late renowned Cape Breton fiddler Buddy MacMaster and the cousin of two other fiddlers, Ashley MacIsaac and Andrea Beaton. MacMaster is the daughter of Alex and Minnie ( née Beaton) MacMaster and the sister of Kevin and David MacMaster. She has appeared at the Celtic Colours festival in Cape Breton, Celtic Connections in Scotland and MerleFest in the United States.īackground MacMaster and Donnell Leahy performing together at the 2018 Burlington's Sound of Music Festival She has toured with the Chieftains, Faith Hill, Carlos Santana and Alison Krauss, and has recorded with Yo-Yo Ma. Natalie MacMaster CM ONS (born June 13, 1972) is a Canadian fiddler from Troy, Inverness County, Nova Scotia, who plays Cape Breton fiddle music. ![]()
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