She has appeared at the Celtic Colours festival in Cape Breton. MacMaster has toured with the Chieftains, Faith Hill, Carlos Santana, and Alison Krauss, and has recorded with Yo-Yo Ma. I fall into the Scottish category," which, as she will tell you is "the oldest existing form of Scottish music today." The music of her roots is the music that moves her.literally: MacMaster always dances in her concerts, having been informally taught step-dancing by her mother at age five. Natalie MacMaster CM ONS (born June 13, 1972) is a Canadian fiddler from Troy, Inverness County, Nova Scotia who plays Cape Breton fiddle music.
She plays with what the Los Angeles Times described as "irresistible, keening passion."īluegrass and Celtic music have been called close cousins, but MacMaster notes that "Bluegrass is bluegrass, but there are lots of forms of Celtic music - Scottish, Welsh, Irish, Spanish. The niece of famed Cape Breton fiddler Buddy MacMaster, Natalie quickly became a major talent in her own right. 'Maybe that will be my next book ‘Parenting and Fiddling: You Can Have It All.’' 'Masters of the Fiddle,' with Natalie MacMaster and Donnell Leahy, will come to the Eccles Performing Arts Center, 1750 Kearns Blvd., on Saturday, April 2. She first picked up a fiddle at the age of nine and hasn't looked back. 'Now, if only someone would help me figure out how balance everything,' MacMaster said with a laugh. She's toured with countless performers, including the Chieftains, Faith Hill, Carlos Santana and Alison Krauss, and has been awarded two Juno Awards (Canada's equivalent to the Grammy).".the sound would melt hearts anywhere."ģ2-year-old Natalie MacMaster is already a veteran of her instrument. Cape Breton Island possesses one of the more vital but lesser-known traditions in the far-flung world of Celtic music.
She's released nine albums, including Yours Truly (2006), Natalie and Buddy MacMaster (2005) and My Roots Are Showing (1998). MacMaster's enthusiastic charm and extraordinary skill has landed her star billing on the international folk circuit and multiple Grammy nominations. The tradition was on the wane when, in 1972, a CBS documentary provocatively titled The Vanishing Cape Breton Fiddler jump-started preservation efforts in the fiddling community.
The niece of renowned Canadian fiddler Buddy MacMaster, she's taken up the mantle as standard-bearer for Cape Breton fiddling, a method of Scottish-style violin-playing that's evolved over the last century on this island neighbor to Nova Scotia. Two of the world’s most celebrated fiddlers, Natalie MacMaster and Donnell Leahy perform Visions from Cape Breton and Beyond- melding their individual styles into a whirlwind of sounds from Canada, Ireland and the United States. But Natalie MacMaster manages this feat, drawing listeners in with her playful showmanship, and then holding them rapt with astounding technical flourishes. Nick Spitzer has a review of the latest recording from fiddle player Natalie MacMaster. It's not easy to make traditional Irish-Scottish music sound sexy and yet still seem wholesome.
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