


As well, there will be a passel of additional singers, dancers and musicians to round things out. Macmaster and Donnell have six children, at least some of whom will join their parents in performing. Natalie MacMaster comes from the high cliffs of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. Album art for Mother Nature by Natalie MacMaster. She is an electrifying performer whose passionate proficiency on the beloved four-string amplifies the traditional East Coast sound for contemporary times. 17,882,775 (2006 English mother tongue, including multiple responses) 1 6,320,085 English ethnicity (including multiple responses) 2 1,098,930 English ethnicity (single responses only) 2 Regions with significant populations. His father was a fiddler and his mother a Cape Breton style step dancer, and Leahy soon forged his own reputation as the front man for the band Leahy. As the no-nonsense mother, Colkos is appropriately stressed by running a house. Key & BPM for Tribute To Buddy by Natalie MacMaster, Donnell Leahy. Natalie MacMaster: wife, mother and virtuoso Cape Breton fiddler. English Americans and English Canadians as percent of population by state and province. She is one of the best-known musicians in the tradition of the driving Cape Breton fiddle music style, and has made a highly successful career as a touring musician, traveling to Europe and Asia and doing as many as 250 shows in a year. The A Medley Memories of Paddy LeBlanc (Donald Angus Beaton), Sandy Cameron Strathspey, Lucy Campbell Strathspey ,The Picnic Reel, Old King's Reel, Miss Lyall Reel, The. Tullochgorum Coilsfield House, Mary Scott, Tullochgorum, Primrose Lasses, Sen sa Che, The Dublin Reel. She released her first recording at sixteen, and for more than thirty years she has delighted audiences with her talents.ĭonnell Leahy started playing fiddle at the age of three. Natalie MacMaster (born June 13, 1972) is an award-winning fiddler from the rural community of Troy in Inverness County, Nova Scotia, Canada. David's Jig, Valerie Pringle's Reel (both written by Natalie) 8. Natalie MacMaster grew up on Cape Breton Island in the far northeast corner of Canada and began to study its distinctive style of fiddle playing at the age of nine. The noted Cape Breton style fiddlers playing music with their children, along with an array of other musicians, dancers and singers.īoth Natalie MacMaster and her husband Donnell Leahy (married since 2002), come from musical families.
