Natalie MacMaster With John Morris Rankin, Dave MacIsaac. And Seamus Egan: Natalie MacMaster With John Morris Rankin, Dave MacIsaac. And Seamus Egan - Road To The Isle (Cass, Album, Dol) Astro Custom Records: ACC-49290: Canada: 1991: Sell This Version. Natalie MacMaster with her 4 oldest children (ages 7, 6, 4 and 2) at the Dublin Irish Festival, August 4, 2013. What an amazingly talented family! Natalie MacMaster joined a collections of Canadian fielders in a concert celebrating the instrument and its musical legacy. Photo: Rebekah Littlejohn Natalie MacMaster has been travelling across Canada for a couple of decades now and she knows how strongly connected the country is to the fiddle.
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MacMaster performing in Centralville, Massachusetts, 2007 | |
Background information | |
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Birth name | Natalie Ann MacMaster |
Born | June 13, 1972 (age 48) Troy, Nova Scotia, Canada |
Genres | Cape Breton fiddle music |
Occupation(s) | Musician |
Instruments | Fiddle, Piano, Vocals |
Years active | 1989–present |
Labels | Rounder Records |
Associated acts | Buddy MacMaster Donnell Leahy |
Website | NatalieMacMaster.com |
The macmaster leahy kids are mary frances, michael, clare and julia. Their father is the extraordinarily gifted fiddler from lakefield, ontario, donnell leahy, and their mother is natalie macmaster, the award winning fiddler from cape breton, nova scotia. The kids all step dance and play fiddle, as well as a variety of other instruments.
Natalie MacMasterCMONS (born June 13, 1972) is a Canadian fiddler from the rural community of Troy in Inverness County, Nova Scotia who plays Cape Breton fiddle music. MacMaster has toured with the Chieftains, Faith Hill, Carlos Santana and Alison Krauss, and has recorded with Yo-Yo Ma. She has appeared at the Celtic Colours festival in Cape Breton, Celtic Connections in Scotland, and MerleFest in the United States.
Background[edit]
MacMaster & Donnell Leahy performing together at the 2018 Burlington's Sound of Music Festival
MacMaster is the daughter of Alex and Minnie (née Beaton) MacMaster and the sister of Kevin and David MacMaster. 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. She is also distantly related to Jack White.[1] Destiny twitter.
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In 2002, she married fiddler Donnell Leahy of the Leahy family band, and moved to Lakefield, Ontario. Leahy and MacMaster have seven children, and have performed and recorded together as a duo, and occasionally include their children, who also play fiddles, in their performances.[2][3] Tinymce wordpress editor.
Musical career[edit]
MacMaster began playing the fiddle at the age of nine,[4] and made her performing debut the same year at a square dance in Glencoe Mills, Nova Scotia.[citation needed] When she was sixteen she released her first album, Four on the Floor, and a second album, Road to the Isle, followed in 1991. Her first album was self-produced,[4] while her second was co-produced by John Morris Rankin (The Rankin Family) and Tom O'Keefe (as per original cassette jacket). Both albums were initially released only on cassette, but Rounder Records omitted a few tracks and re-released as A Compilation in 1998. In 1999, she performed at the Juno Awards show in Hamilton.[5]
Vivaldi's menu. 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.[6]
In 2004, MacMaster appeared on Sharon, Lois & Bram's 25th Anniversary Concert special titled '25 Years of Skinnamarink' that aired on CBC on January 1, 2004 at 7:00pm. She performed two songs with the trio: 'C-H-I-C-K-E-N' and 'Grandpa's Farm'.
Awards[edit]
She 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. MacMaster was also awarded an honorary doctorate from Niagara University in New York in 2006. 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.[7][8]
Discography[edit]
Albums[edit]
Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | Certifications (sales thresholds) | ||||
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CAN | US Heat | US Indie | US Folk | US Grass | |||
Four on the Floor |
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Road to the Isle |
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Fit as a Fiddle |
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A Compilation |
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No Boundaries |
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In My Hands |
| 32 | -- | -- | -- | -- |
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My Roots Are Showing |
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Live |
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Blueprint |
| -- | -- | -- | -- | 6 | |
Natalie & Buddy MacMaster: Traditional Music from Cape Breton Island |
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Yours Truly |
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Cape Breton Girl |
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One(with Donnell Leahy) |
| 23 | 4 | 15 | 6 | -- | |
A Celtic Family Christmas(with Donnell Leahy) |
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Sketches |
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Singles[edit]
Year | Single | Peak positions | Album |
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CAN AC | |||
1996 | 'Catharsis' | -- | No Boundaries |
1997 | 'Fiddle and Bow' (with Bruce Guthro) | -- | |
'The Drunken Piper' (with Cookie Rankin) | -- | ||
1999 | 'In My Hands' | 18 | In My Hands |
'Get Me Through December' (with Alison Krauss) | 40 | ||
2004 | 'Appropriate Dipstick' | -- | Blueprint |
'—' denotes releases that did not chart |
Music videos[edit]
Natalie Macmaster Family
Year | Video | Director |
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1996 | 'Catharsis' | |
1997 | 'Fiddle and Bow' (with Bruce Guthro) | Andrew MacNaughtan |
'The Drunken Piper' (with Cookie Rankin) | ||
1999 | 'In My Hands' | Christopher Mills |
'Get Me Through December' (with Alison Krauss) | Mark Hesselink | |
2004 | 'Appropriate Dipstick' | |
2014 | 'Go Tell It on the Mountain' (with Johnny Reid and The Rankins) | Margaret Malandrucco |
Other appearances[edit]
MacMaster at Merlefest, 2004
- 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: An 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 Music of Canada, 2005 (one track)
- Yo-Yo Ma & Friends: Songs of Joy and Peace; Songs:A Christmas Jig/Mouth of the Tobique Reel; 2008 (Sony BMG)
- Thomas Dolby: Amerikana EP, Songs:Toad Lickers and 17 Hills, 2010 (Lost Toy People, Inc)
References[edit]
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- ^'White Stripes Gear up for Canada, Find Family Along the Way', SoulShine, June 19, 2007.
- ^Institute, Courtesy of the Park City. 'MacMaster and Leahy have combined their love of music with their love of family'. www.parkrecord.com. Retrieved March 14, 2019.
- ^Sisneros, Johnna. 'REVIEW: Step-dancing violinists earn standing ovation in A Celtic Celebration at Lied Center'. The Daily Nebraskan. Retrieved March 14, 2019.
- ^ ab'Natalie MacMaster'. Canadian Encyclopedia.
- ^'Live Reviews: The 1999 Juno Awards March 7, 1999 Copps Coliseum, Hamilton, ON'. Chart Attack, — Mike McCann
- ^'A Celtic Celebration with Natalie MacMaster'. National Arts Centre, Ottawa.
- ^'Governor General to invest 41 recipients into the Order of Canada'. The Governor General of Canada web site. May 2, 2007. Retrieved April 6, 2021.
- ^'Order of Nova Scotia recipients-2020'. Government of Nova Scotia. Retrieved December 7, 2020.
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External links[edit]
- Natalie MacMaster at TED
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Natalie Macmaster And Donnell Leahy
After releasing two self-produced cassette-only albums -- 4 On the Floor in 1989 and Road to the Isle in 1990 -- MacMaster expanded her following with her first release in the United States, Fit as a Fiddle, which received a East Coast Music Award as Best Roots/Traditional Album of 1992. Tracks from MacMaster's first two albums were reissued by Rounder as A Compilation in 1997. MacMaster's first album released by Warner Brothers Canada, No Boundaries, included 'Drunken Piper' (featuring vocals by Cookie Rankin of the Rankin Family), and established her as one of the top musicians in Canada. In addition to hosting the East Coast Music Awards, MacMaster received awards as 'Female Artist of the Year, Roots/Traditional Artist of the Year and Instrumental Artist of the Year. MacMaster was also named Fiddler of the Year by the Canadian Country Music Association. The album was dedicated to the memory of MacMaster's grandmother, Margaret Ann Beaton, who would often sing Gaelic lyrics to songs that MacMaster was learning on the fiddle.