![]() ![]() But MacMaster and husband Donnell Leahy seem to manage a musical career and raising a family pretty darn well. “It was just a little misunderstanding. Someone had turned the stove off.” It’s the kind of thing that can happen when you have six kids aged three to 11. One is cleaning the tub and the other is folding laundry and all of sudden my husband said supper is ready and I’m thinking there is no way those sausages are cooked and I had to go down and make sure and sure enough they weren’t cooked. “All the kids were nicely working on chores. But when ARTSFILE reached her recently, she wasn’t only thinking about music. She was also concerned with family matters. That’s why, she says, she is excited to play in a Canada Scene concert with other proponents of fiddle music on Saturday July 8. Retrieved April 1, 2010.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. ↑ "Governor General to invest 41 recipients into the Order of Canada".Thomas Dolby: Amerikana EP, Songs: Toad Lickers and 17 Hills, 2010 (Lost Toy People, Inc).Yo-Yo Ma & Friends: Songs of Joy and Peace Songs:A Christmas Jig/Mouth of the Tobique Reel 2008 (Sony BMG).Celtic Colours - Volume VII, 2003 (one track).Celtic Colours - The Colours of Cape Breton, 2002 (one track). ![]() Roots Music: An American Journey, Rounder 0501, 2001 (one track).Celtic Colours - Forgotten Roots, 1999 (one track).Celtic Colours - The Second Wave, 1998 (one track).Celtic Colours - The Road Home, 1997 (one track).Traditional Music From Cape Breton Island, Nimbus NI5383, 1993 (two tracks)."Get Me Through December" (with Alison Krauss) Traditional Music from Cape Breton Island In 2006, she was made a member of the Order of Canada. MacMaster was also awarded an honorary doctorate from Niagara University in New York in 2006. 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. 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. Both of these self-produced albums were initially released only on cassette, but Rounder Records omitted a few tracks and re-released as A Compilation in 1998. When she was sixteen she released her first album, Four on the Floor, and a second album, Road to the Isle, followed in 1991. MacMaster began playing the fiddle at the age of nine, and made her performing debut the same year at a square dance in Glencoe Mills, Nova Scotia. MacMaster performs at Edmonds Center For The Arts, North of Seattle, WA 10-23-2010 Her fourth child, another daughter, Julia Elizabeth, was born in January 2011. Her third child, a daughter, Clare Marie, was born in February 2009. In 2007, MacMaster learned she was related to Jack White. Her second child, a son, Michael Joseph Alexander, was born in June 2007. In December 2005, she gave birth to a daughter, Mary Frances Rose. In 2011 she moved to Douro, where she built a new house. In 2002, she married fiddler Donnell Leahy of the Leahy family band, and moved to Lakefield, Ontario. She is the cousin of two other Cape Breton fiddlers, Ashley MacIsaac and Andrea Beaton. She is the sister of Kevin and David MacMaster. MacMaster is the daughter of Alex and Minnie (Beaton) MacMaster, and the niece of Cape Breton fiddler Buddy MacMaster. ![]()
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