Ceilidh Trail School concert: Reels (Brenda Stubbert, fiddle ; Brian Doyle, guitar ; Richard Wood, piano) (3:37) -- Port Hood Arena dance: Strathspeys and reels (Jackie Dunn MacIsaac, fiddle ; Wendy ...

Thomas MacDonnell's strathspey/traditional strathspey/My great friend John Morris Rankin/Maire O'Keeffe reel/Francis Beaton's reel (4:22) -- Quickstep/Gordon's trip to Sydney/ The garden wall (3:09) - ...

The Red & Black is a 501c3 nonprofit. Please consider a one-time gift or become a monthly supporter. Cancel anytime. Athens has certainly seen its fair share of fiddlers, but these are not your ...

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 ...

Some 2,400 miles due east of Lansing is the Nova Scotia island of Cape Breton, where superstar fiddler Natalie MacMaster was born. MacMaster and her husband and fiddler Donnell Leahy will play a show ...

WEST KENNEBUNK, Maine – Andrea Beaton, Troy MacGillivray and Sabra MacGillivray – some of Atlantic Canada’s finest performers of traditional music and dance – will appear in an extraordinary concert ...

Most people assume the greatest inspiration in fiddler Natalie MacMaster's life is her uncle, legendary Cape Breton fiddler Buddy MacMaster, but truth be told, one of the biggest mentors she has had ...

The fiddle music of Nova Scotia’s Cape Breton Island gets its character from the Scottish immigrants who settled the area in the late 18th and early 19th centuries–in fact, many traditions that have ...

Was it hot Sunday evening? It's quite possible thousands of people on the Long's Park lawn didn't notice. Although it was still above 90 degrees in the shade when the music started shortly after 7:30 ...

Natalie MacMaster and Donnell Leahy are known as Canada’s reigning stars of Celtic music. Some people go even further with the praise, geographically speaking. They are "two of the planet’s very best ...