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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This release incorporates songs from her first two self-produced cassettes, "Four on the Floor," released in 1988 when she was 16, and "Road to the Isle," released in 1991. Fit as a Fiddle, 1993 Based ...

CAPE BRETON, Canada (CNN) -- "I've been hearing fiddle music since I was in the womb, I'm sure," says Natalie MacMaster , considered by many to be the premiere female fiddler in this Canadian pocket ...

Photo by Margaret MalandruccoloLike B.B. King strumming his guitar Lucille, NovaScotian songwriter/step dancer Natalie MacMaster and her fiddle were meant for each other. She's been immersed in a ...