A common dynamic binds Cajun fiddle playing and the melodic rhythms of Cape Breton sound. Neither is highly structured or technically intricate in its expressions, but both sure make you feel good ...

The award-winning Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, fiddlers Natalie MacMaster and her husband, Donnell Leahy, will bring their unique spin on Celtic music to Schaeffer Auditorium on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. as ...

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Award-winning folk-fiddle royalty Natalie MacMaster and Donnell Leahy will perform a Celtic concert in Harwich Monday, and it was an easy decision to have their “Visions of Cape Breton and Beyond: A ...

WEST KENNEBUNK, Maine – Andrea Beaton, Troy MacGillivray and Sabra MacGillivray – some of Atlantic Canada’s finest performers of traditional music and dance – will appear in an extraordinary concert ...

Although Natalie MacMaster fits comfortably in the category of Celtic fiddler, her music has been a balancing act between breaking new ground and hewing to a traditional approach. MacMaster grew up in ...

Natalie MacMaster’s virtuosity has brought international acclaim to the complex, beautiful style of fiddling brought to Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, by early 19th-century Scottish immigrants. For more ...

Cape Breton, to many around the globe, seems to be a tucked-away, mystical sort of place, an island that’s visited only as an afterthought by wealthy families shopping in Halifax, Nova Scotia’s ...

Donnell Leahy begins playing the fiddle as his wife Natalie MacMaster sways, eyes closed, to the sound of the music with her own fiddle resting on her shoulder. Soon she joins in and the sounds of ...

Natalie MacMaster’s voice is smoky and rueful in that way only a nagging throat ailment can bring on. Plus, she’s seven months pregnant, touring North America right up to the holidays, and getting ...