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 ...

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Natalie MacMaster has the look of a pop star: blond, slender, vivacious and outgoing. Her stage performances are whirling flashes of music and movement, her thick mane of hair flying as she whips her ...

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 ...

BRATTLEBORO -- The Acoustic Music Series at Hooker-Dunham Theater & Gallery continues with a fiddle twin bill featuring legendary Cape Breton fiddler Jerry Holland and Ed Pearlman, Scottish fiddle, ...

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 ...

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 ...

PITTSFIELD — Natalie MacMaster's gifts as a soloist on the violin — oops, make that fiddle — are equaled, if not surpassed, by her acumen as a bandleader. For her show at the Colonial Theatre on ...

Individually, Natalie MacMaster and Donnell Leahy are regarded as two of the most talented fiddle players of the modern era. When the duo, who married in October 2002, takes the stage together, well, ...

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 ...