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 ...

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 ...

Lowell Summer Music Series officials this week announced two more shows for the upcoming season — Lettuce on June 23, and Natalie MacMaster and Donnell Leahy on Sept. 1. There’s usually room each year ...

Thomas MacDonnell's strathspey/traditional strathspey/My great friend John Morris Rankin/Maire O'Keeffe reel/Francis Beaton's reel (4:22) -- Quickstep/Gordon's trip to Sydney/ The garden wall (3:09) - ...

Natalie MacMaster and Donnell Leahy are known as Canada’s reigning stars of Celtic music. Some people go even further with the praise, geographically speaking. They are "two of the planet’s very best ...

Natalie MacMaster has the look of a pop star: blond, slender, vivacious and outgoing. Her stage performances are whirling flashes of music and movement, her thick mane of hair flying as she whips her ...

Individually, Natalie MacMaster and Donnell Leahy are regarded as two of the most talented fiddle players of the modern era. When the duo, who married in October 2002, takes the stage together, well, ...

The Red & Black is a 501c3 nonprofit. Please consider a one-time gift or become a monthly supporter. Cancel anytime. Athens has certainly seen its fair share of fiddlers, but these are not your ...

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 ...

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 ...