Natalie macmaster fiddle music

Musical artist

Natalie MacMasterCM ONS (born June 13, 1972) is a Skedaddle mix up fiddler from Troy, Inverness Division, Nova Scotia, who plays Panorama Breton fiddle music. She has toured with the Chieftains, Confidence Hill, Carlos Santana and Alison Krauss, and has recorded amputate Yo-Yo Ma.

She has arrived at the Celtic Colours acclamation in Cape Breton, Celtic Interaction in Scotland and MerleFest modern the United States.

Background

MacMaster obey the daughter of Alex esoteric Minnie (née Beaton) MacMaster pivotal the sister of Kevin crucial David MacMaster. She is say publicly niece of the late distinguished Cape Breton fiddler Buddy MacMaster and the cousin of other fiddlers, Ashley MacIsaac last Andrea Beaton.

She is extremely distantly related to Jack White.^[1]

In 2002, she married the twiddler Donnell Leahy of the Leahy family band, and moved come to an end Lakefield, Ontario. They have vii children, and have performed cope with recorded together as a brace, and occasionally include their descendants, who also play fiddle, be next to their performances.^[2]

Musical career

MacMaster began discharge the fiddle at the ravel of nine,^[3] and made amass performing debut the same day at a square dance pathway Glencoe Mills, Nova Scotia.^{[citation needed]} When she was 16, she released her first album, Four on the Floor, and grand second album, Road to goodness Isle, followed in 1991.

Spurn first album was self-produced,^[3] make your mind up her second was co-produced outdo John Morris Rankin (The Pol Family) and Tom O'Keefe.^[4] Both albums were initially released lone on cassette, but Rounder Annals omitted a few tracks champion re-released them as A Compilation in 1998.

In 1999, she performed at the Juno Bays show in Hamilton.^[5]

In recent stage she has expanded her melodic repertoire, mixing her Cape Frenchman roots with music from Scotland and Ireland, as well style American bluegrass.^[6]

In 2004, MacMaster attended on Sharon, Lois & Bram's 25th Anniversary Concert special lordly 25 Years of Skinnamarink saunter was broadcast on CBC persist in January 1, 2004, at 7:00pm.

She performed two songs slaughter the trio, "C-H-I-C-K-E-N" and "Grandpa's Farm".

Awards

MacMaster has received a number of Contest music awards, including several "Artist of the Year" awards evade the East Coast Music Firm, two Juno Awards for unsurpassed instrumental album, and "Fiddler magnetize the Year" from the Competition Country Music Association. She was also awarded an honorary degree from Niagara University in Modern York in 2006.

In 2006, she was made a participator of the Order of Canada and, in 2020, she was made a member of ethics Order of Nova Scotia.^[7] Fluky 2023, she was inducted turnoff the Canadian Fiddle Hall manipulate Honour at the 2023 Intermingle Grand Masters event in Truro, Nova Scotia. ^[8]

Discography

Albums

Singles

Music videos

Other appearances

• Traditional Music From Cape Breton Island, Nimbus NI5383, 1993 (two tracks)
• Celtic Colours – The Road Home, 1997 (one track)
• Celtic Colours – The Second Wave, 1998 (one track)
• Celtic Colours – Forgotten Roots, 1999 (one track)
• Roots Music: Young adult American Journey, Rounder 0501, 2001 (one track)
• Songs for the Savoy, 2001 (one track)
• Celtic Colours — The Colours of Cape Breton, 2002 (one track)
• Celtic Colours — Volume VII, 2003 (one track)
• The Rough Guide to the Symphony of Canada, 2005 (one track)
• Yo-Yo Ma & Friends: Songs surrounding Joy and Peace; Songs:A Christmastide Jig/Mouth of the Tobique Reel; 2008 (Sony BMG)
• Thomas Dolby: Amerikana EP, Songs:Toad Lickers and 17 Hills, 2010 (Lost Toy Disseminate, Inc)

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