![]() ![]() Hear what it is Sketches is available now. Catamount Arts and KCP Presents announced the performance of Natalie MacMaster and Donnell Leahy in Celtic Family Christmas, broadcast live from the MacMaster/Leahy homestead in Ontario, Saturday. “I have something to say through my fiddle,” she says. ![]() The album teems with retrospect and legacy as MacMaster reflects on her extraordinary journey in both life and career. Sketches is a return to a solo sound, and the result is a fiery, must-hear collection of traditional tunes and medleys mixed with new compositions. A major highlight of VisionTV’s 5 Weeks of Christmas this year is the one-of-a-kind musical event special A Celtic Family Christmas. And speaking on the family-front, she’s distantly related to fiddler Ashley MacIsaac and rocker Jack White and spends much of her time collaborating with Donnell as well as putting her teaching degree to use homeschooling their children. This is a professional life that includes performances with Béla Fleck, Faith Hill, Carlos Santana, The Chieftains, Sharon, Lois & Bram, Buddy MacMaster and Jesse Cook, as well as award-winning collaborations with Yo-Yo Ma, and a blended line with award-winning collaborations with Donnell and their children. “It’ll be a moment of joyous appreciation inspired by years of parenting, marriage, friendships, music, and life.” “It is a moment during my 47th year of life, my 37th year of fiddling, my 16th year of marriage, and my 13th year of parenting,” MacMaster says of the forthcoming release, and in reference to her seven children and husband and fellow fiddler Donnell Leahy. With over 300,000 albums sold, Canada’s most-endeared and revered fiddler has received countless nominations and award wins - including but not limited to a GRAMMY Award win and nomination, a JUNO Award win and seven nominations, 19 East Coast Music Association awards, and five Canadian Country Music Association’s “Fiddler of the Year” nods - as well as three honorary doctorates, an induction into the Casino Nova Scotia Hall of Fame, and a member of the Order of Canada.īut for Sketches, the Celtic music superstar is drawing on a different set of numbers for inspiration. Sketches was released on November 1st, 2019 through Linus Entertainment. Natalie MacMaster has drawn a line on time, putting bow to fiddle once again for this, her first solo album release in eight years. ![]()
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