NASHUA – A fiddler since the age of 9, Natalie MacMaster will showcase her passion at the Performing Arts Center on Dec. 14. Growing up on Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia, playing the fiddle was ...

Few performers exhibit the excitement that marks Natalie MacMaster’s shows. Less than a year after the birth of her fourth child, the Canadian fiddler brings “Christmas in Cape Breton” to George Mason ...

With family a top priority these days for Cape Breton fiddler Natalie MacMaster and her husband, Donnell Leahy, the couple had a new motor home delivered to their Ontario residence, a way, she said, ...

MacMaster began playing piano and dancing at age 5, and first picked up a fiddle when she was 9. By the time she was 10, she was playing on stage in a community where the talent level and the ...

The fiddle music of Nova Scotia’s Cape Breton Island gets its character from the Scottish immigrants who settled the area in the late 18th and early 19th centuries–in fact, many traditions that have ...

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 ...

Fiddler Natalie MacMaster grew up in a house full of music, steeped in the traditions of her Scottish Canadian isle. And in the seasonal spirit of sharing, she's bringing that gift to her Hancher ...