"I don't even like to look at my itinerary," MacMaster says over a breakfast of eggs, bacon and home fries in Halifax. Recently, she was invited to open for the chart-topping Dixie Chicks on their North American tour. MacMaster's latest album, In My Hands, which has sold a respectable 40,000 copies south of the border since its release there in October, is getting airplay on some 50 American radio stations. If she is big in Canada, MacMaster is even bigger in other countries, where the critics are entranced and her tours sell out. These days, she's everywhere - touring Canada, flogging Tim Hortons doughnuts, performing at the Juno Awards in Toronto on March 12, and co-hosting the recent East Coast Music Awards in Sydney, N.S., where she won the prizes for female artist of the year and roots/traditional artist of the year. But MacMaster is doing just fine as the embodiment of sweetness and light. It may have seemed, with the headline-grabbing antics of Ashley MacIsaac, that gifted Cape Breton fiddlers had to have a dark side. "It was so gross - I'd be signing autographs and my frigging thumb would be bleeding. "But I stopped that at Christmas," she says.
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MacMaster, who, up close, has a flawless complexion to go with her cascading blond curls, even used to pick the skin around her cuticles until her fingers bled. Occasionally, she gets a little weary of having to do her trademark step dancing while playing the fiddle. Sometimes, she says things she doesn't really mean to people she cares about. The 27-year-old gets impatient when driving behind someone slow. When pressed by an interviewer for details, Canada's Celtic darling hems and haws, then comes right out with the awful truth. Sure, she goes to mass every week and calls her mom back in tiny Troy, N.S., every couple of days - no matter whether she's touring in Europe or cutting an album in Toronto. MacMaster, NatalieĬape Breton fiddling virtuoso Natalie MacMaster wants it known that she's no goody two-shoes.
The box office is open Monday-Friday 10am–5pm, Saturdays 10am–2pm or on any performance day from 10am until intermission.Natalie MacMaster's traditional Cape Breton fiddling style is based on a rich Highland Scotland repertoire from the 17th to 19th centuries (photo by Richard Beland, courtesy Natalie MacMaster). 997.4444 or online at the Colonial Theatre. Tickets may be purchased in person at the Colonial Ticket Office at 111 South Street or by calling 413.
Tickets to Natalie MacMaster: Christmas in Cape Breton are $20-$55 and VIP tickets are $60. MacMaster has performed on stage with The Chieftains, Paul Simon, Faith Hill, Luciano Pavarotti and in front of millions on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Late Night with Conan O’Brien, the ABC 2002 New Year’s Eve Special and Good Morning America. This strength and confidence has only grown through the years, whether it’s through an album such as Fit As A Fiddle, that marks her fueling her familial tradition, or through the exploration of Texas and bluegrass swing, Gaelic singing on No Boundaries, a touch of folk rock and new age on In My Hands, a contrasting embrace of the modern and old roots on Live, or her self-published book Cape Breton Aire. She delivered her first album, Four On The Floor, at the age of 16. MacMaster debuted her fiddling prowess at the age of nine-and-a-half years at concert in Glendale, Cape Breton. Thomas University) the Order Of Canada - and a reputation as one of Canada’s most captivating performers. Her impressive musical lineage includes her uncle, fiddle prodigy Buddy MacMaster (with whom Natalie recorded the 2005 gem Traditional Music From Cape Breton Island) her cousins Ashley MacIsaac and Andrea Beaton, and the late, great Canadian folk icon John Allan Cameron.īorn Jin Troy, Inverness County, Nova Scotia, Natalie MacMaster has received numerous Juno and East Coast Music Awards two honorary degrees (from Niagara University, NY, and Trent University) and an honorary doctorate (St. MacMaster’s Cape Breton-style fiddling has resonated with world audiences through 10 albums, multiple gold sales figures and a 27 year career. (PITTSFIELD, Mass,) – Renowned fiddler and Celtic musician Natalie MacMaster performs Christmas in Cape Breton at the Colonial Theatre on Wednesday, November 30, 2011, at 7:30 pm.
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