And then, for gigs that we do separately, we might just take one of the kids, do something special, or something different. It’s like it’s a family, more of a family show and that’s what it’s becoming anyway. Usually the shows that we do together, we do it with everyone. Any big tours we do that are fairly extensive, like two, three or four weeks, we will take everybody. When you go on tour or you play a show, do you get to bring the family with you? We were open to what life is going to give us. So, we didn’t set out for any amount of kids. Then in my twenties, I mean, for me, I’m always open to all of that. I tell Donnell now, and I remember when I was in high school telling my friends I was going to have six kids someday, three girls and three boys. I feel like a Nike ad campaign now.ĭid you always want to have a big family? Now, this is a big story, it’s like, Oh my gosh, you’ve got seven kids, you home school, you tour, you both have careers, how do you last? Well, you can understand this is the path that life has led us down and we have said yes to follow by many little actions and slowly over days, weeks, months, years, we can make a statement and it sounds like a grand statement, but I really think that anybody given the same set of circumstances that we grew up in and were given, that anybody would do the same thing. So even for the example of having seven children, we just didn’t have seven children, we had one. I think like anything in life you come to it in little increments. So there must be a formula for being successful as a parent, wife and a respected musician. You grew up with a very extended musical family. We spoke with Natalie at her Lakefield, Ontario home. 25 and returns to Brantford’s Sanderson Centre on April 8. She heads to Stratford’s Avon Theatre on Jan. Her latest album Sketches is a Celtic masterwork and draws on projecting emotions without any vocals. The oft-interpreted "Reel Beatrice" receives a funky treatment with full band, and special guest Cookie Rankin provides Gaelic singing and "scatting" to the slow hip-hop beat of "The Drunken Piper." Acoustic guitarist Dave MacIsaac deserves mention for his accomplished work throughout and producer Chad Irschick ( Rankin Family and Loreena McKennitt) ties together some seemingly disparate music forms with amazing ease and dexterity.Not content with an outstanding music career, MacMaster went on to marry another fiddle legend, Donnell Leahy, in 2002 and the couple have raised seven children together. In addition to MacMaster's extremely fluid, precise technique and her devotion to the traditional Cape Breton fiddle tunes, there are a few surprises here, most notably the bluegrass and erstwhile Texas swing favorite "Beaumont Rag," performed in true swing fashion. Although only 24 years of age at the time of its release, No Boundaries is her fourth recording, and as the title suggests, her most diverse. One of the 1990s' most exciting and gifted fiddlers is Natalie MacMaster from Cape Breton, the wonderfully Celtic-rich region of Nova Scotia. The educational opportunities are now abundant, the development of talent is ongoing, and the fruits of these efforts are being harvested routinely. With the arrival and subsequent success of artists like Altan, Seamus Egan, Eileen Ivers, and Ashley MacIsaac, those worries amount to nothing but a distant memory. In the 1960s and '70s there was growing concern within Celtic music circles that the perceived lack of interest and participation could jeopardize the future of that tradition.
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