This family of fiddlers is bridging the music of Cape Breton with its Celtic cousins

Natalie MacMaster, Donnell Leahy, and their daughter Mary Frances perform at the Somerville Theatre this Thursday with the Celtic All Stars.
The Atlantic

Some Breton Folk-Songs

A SIMPLE, kindly, honest people are the Breton folk. Not French at all, but very far from it, although they nowadays choose deputies to the legislative body in Paris, and their rugged granite country ...
Concord Monitor

Musical line-up goes from Southern folk to Motown to Cape Breton

What’s that sound? It’s a week packed with music from the isle of Cape Breton to the streets of Detriot’s Motown music scene. Don’t miss some great singers and musicians coming to town. Classic ’70s ...
Moviefone

Canada Vignettes Men of the Deeps Cape Breton

This short vignette features coal mines in New Waterford and Glace Bay Nova Scotia along with traditional Cape Breton folk songs sung by Men of the Deeps a min ...
Lansing State Journal

Nova Scotia fiddler makes it a family affair

Some 2,400 miles due east of Lansing is the Nova Scotia island of Cape Breton, where superstar fiddler Natalie MacMaster was born. MacMaster and her husband and fiddler Donnell Leahy will play a show ...
insider.si.edu

Newport Folk Festival: Texas Work Song Group, Pete Seeger, Cape Breton Singers, Rev. Gary Davis

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Diana J. Davies photographs, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections, Smithsonian Institution. or Photo by Diana J. Davies. Ralph Rinzler ...