"Flamenco Fling" is bright and percussive, fiddle confidently intoning Celtic patterns in a novel context, the best song on the record. It begins with a calm, bouncy beat, introducing MacMaster's offhand, almost playful style in the fiddle's lower registers, moves into a slower, more deliberate form allowing for greater melodic elaboration, through quicker, more syncopated and jerky playing, and finally into a celebratory abandon, drum thundering, fiddle effortlessly trilling impossible scales.
"Welcome to the Trossachs" is representative of the many medleys on In My Hands, tunes skillfully chosen to lead the listener through a self-contained instrumental drama. There are a pair of vocal performances on In My Hands, including MacMaster's own light profession of affection for her fiddle on a techno-Celt title track, but this is primarily and gloriously an instrumental recording, and firmly tradition-based at that. Fortunately, it doesn't happen on this recording. Just what music lovers need: another unique, tradition-based musical talent sacrificed to sacred crossover. Rounder (The promo sheet warns of "major potential to cross over into the larger pop music market." Sigh. Has performed with Béla Fleck, Faith Hill, Carlos Santana, The Chieftains (who invited MacMaster to join the group), Sharon, Lois & Bram, Buddy MacMaster and Jesse Cook is distantly related to fiddler Ashley MacIsaac and rocker Jack White has a teaching degree and home-schools her children is a published author ( Natalie MacMaster’s Cape Breton Aire, 2010) sun sign Gemini is an excellent cook who makes pasta sauce and salad dressing from scratch.Recording review: Natalie MacMaster Natalie MacMaster Solo: JUNO Awards (seven nominations, win for Best Instrumental Album, In My Hands, 2000) 19 East Coast Music Awards 5 Canadian Country Music Association Awards (as Fiddler of the Year from 1997 to 2001) multiple gold albums with overall sales exceeding 300,000 Member of Order of Canada (2006) GEMINI Award (Best Performance or Host in a Variety Program or Series, 1999) Honorary Doctorates at School of Theology, Halifax, NS, Trent University, Peterborough and Niagara University in New York Casino Nova Scotia Music Hall of Fame Induction (2016).Ĭollaborations: Grammy Awards (win for Best Chamber Music Performance, Songs of Joy & Peace w/ Yo-Yo Ma, 2010 nomination for Best Traditional Folk album, My Roots Are Showing, 2000) Canadian Folk Music Award (Instrumental Group of the Year 2015 w/ Donnell Leahy) East Coast Music Awards (Fan’s Choice Entertainer of the Year and Instrumental Recording of the Year 2016 w/ Donnell Leahy).
Alison Krauss (1999) My Roots Are Showing (2000) Live (2002) Blueprint (2003) Yours Truly (2006) Cape Breton Girl (2011).Ĭollaborations: Songs of Joy & Peace w/ Yo-Yo Ma (2008) A Christmas Gift to You w/ Johnny Reid (2013) One w/ Donnell Leahy (2015) A Celtic Family Christmas w/ Donnell Leahy (2016).
Solo: Four On The Floor (1989) Road To The Isle (1991) Fit As A Fiddle (1993) A Compilation (1996) No Boundaries (1997) In My Hands feat.
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