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NATALIE MacMaster CM was born on June 13, 1972. He is an award-winning fiddler who hails from a rural community of Troy in Inverness County, Nova Scotia, Canada. She is known as one of the best-known musicians in the genre of Cape Breton fiddle music tradition. Besides being a fiddler, she also made a successful career as a touring musician and travelled to Europe and Asia and has been doing many shows in a year that totals around 250.
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About Natalie MacMaster
After gaining tremendous success as a fiddler, Natalie was very much engaged in the task of working in a genre of Cape Breton fiddle music. She has been active in the musical arena from the year 1989 till the present date. She started off with her associated acts with Buddy MacMaster and Donnell Leahy. Her website is www.nataliemacmaster.com.
MacMaster has been touring with many renowned performers, like the Chieftains, Faith Hill, Carlos Santana and Alison Krauss. She also marked her appearance at lot many music festivals worldwide, that include the Celtic Colours festival in Cape Breton, Celtic Connections in Scotland and MerleFest in United States.
A daughter of Alex and Minnie (Beaton) MacMaster, and niece of Cape Breton fiddler Buddy MacMaster, Natalie is the cousin of two other well-known Cape Breton fiddlers, that include Ashley MacIsaac and Andrea Beaton. She is also a neighbour of folk-artist Travis MacRae. She married in 2002 to the fiddler Donnell Leahy from the Leahy family band. Thereafter, she shifted to Lakefield, Ontario, where she is still residing with her husband along with her two children. She delivered a daughter, Mary Frances Rose on December 3, 2005. However, her second child, Michael Joseph Alexander, was born on June 23, 2007. MacMaster started playing the fiddle when she was 9. She also made her performing debut in the same year in Glencoe Mills, Nova Scotia at a square dance. She released her first album, Four on the Floor, when she was 16. Her second album Road to the Isle, was released in 1991. Both of the albums were released, initially on cassette, however, Rounder Records omitted some of the tracks and re-released as A Compilation in 1998. She expanded her musical repertoire in the recent years mixing her Cape Breton roots along with the music from Scotland and Ireland, and American bluegrass as well. She also received several Canadian music awards, including several 'Artist of the Year' awards from the East Coast Music Association,. Then, there were two Juno awards for best instrumental album and also a "Fiddler of the Year" from the Canadian Country Music Association MacMaster was later on awarded an honorary doctorate from Niagara University in 2006 in New York. She was made a member of the Order of Canada in 2006.
