Mindful of the fiddling tradition she represents, Natalie MacMaster gracefully adapts catchy phrases from the pop and jazz idioms to modernize her brand of Cape Breton music-making, a cross between ...

Natalie MacMaster is a revelation to anyone who sees the Cape Breton fiddler in action for the first time. Slender and nimble, ever in motion, blond hair flying, she rips off her traditional licks ...

GRAND RAPIDS, MI – Fiddler Natalie MacMaster learned her craft at the feet of old-timers in living rooms and on front porches, who learned the tunes and techniques in much the same way. Today, the ...

The University at Buffalo Center for the Arts will present “Natalie MacMaster and Donnell Leahy” on Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2023 at 7:30 p.m. in the Mainstage Theatre, located at the Center for the Arts, ...

Natalie MacMaster prefers her fiddle Celtic-style… or is it bluegrass? It’s hard to tell, really. And besides, the way this clever Canadian makes music, trying to pigeonhole her sound becomes a moot ...

Downtown Fargo will sound more like the mountains of Appalachia this fall as the Fargo Theatre hosts two bluegrass-based bands. Nova Scotia fiddler Natalie MacMaster brings her blend of bluegrass and ...

UCSB Arts & Lectures presents Natalie MacMaster & Donnell Leahy and the Celtic All Stars, 7 p.m. Sunday, March 1 at UCSB Campbell Hall. In an evening of music and celebration, Canada’s Celtic ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- The Center for the Arts at the University at Buffalo will present Natalie MacMaster at 8 p.m. on April 27, 2005 in the Mainstage theater located in the Center for the Arts on the UB ...

Award-winning fiddle virtuosos Natalie MacMaster and Donnell Leahy are continuing both their families’ family-band traditions, and they and their five oldest children soon will help an Amherst ...

Fiddling sensation Natalie MacMaster performs at the Napa Valley Opera House tonight at 8 p.m. MacMaster has been hailed since her first recording, "Fit as a Fiddle," showcasing traditional music, ...

Popular myth dictates that everyone from Cape Breton, Newfoundland, on Canada’s rugged Atlantic coastline, is born with either a fiddle or a fishing net in hand. That’s not true, of course, but then ...