Natalie MacMaster

"...the sound would melt hearts anywhere."
— London Free Press

32-year-old Natalie MacMaster is already a veteran of her instrument. She first picked up a fiddle at the age of nine and hasn't looked back. The niece of famed Cape Breton fiddler Buddy MacMaster, Natalie quickly became a major talent in her own right. She plays with what the Los Angeles Times described as "irresistible, keening passion."

Bluegrass and Celtic music have been called close cousins, but MacMaster notes that "Bluegrass is bluegrass, but there are lots of forms of Celtic music -- Scottish, Welsh, Irish, Spanish. I fall into the Scottish category," which, as she will tell you is "the oldest existing form of Scottish music today." The music of her roots is the music that moves her...literally: MacMaster always dances in her concerts, having been informally taught step-dancing by her mother at age five.

In 2000, she earned a Grammy nomination in 2000 for My Roots Are Showing in the Best Traditional Folk Album category, and has garned two Juno Awards (the Canadian equivalent of the Grammy) for Best Instrumental Album and several Canadian Country Music Awards for Fiddler of the Year.

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