![]() ![]() It was a busy night on the red carpet, as the ECMAs returned to a fully in-person show after three years.Įnfield rapper Classified, who tied with P.E.I.’s The East Pointers for most nominations at six each, posed with his family and friends for photographers. “She is a friend to Nova Scotia, the East Coast and all of Canada,” he said, adding “she is a master of her craft.” Packed house Ryan Taplinįormer premier Rodney MacDonald, a fellow Cape Bretoner and fiddler, presented MacMaster with the award. “I know how great she is as a mother, as a person and I know she loves it down here … I’m proud she’s getting the award.” Natalie MacMaster poses for photos with her daughter Mary Frances Leahy on the red carpet at the East Coast Music Awards in Halifax on Thursday. “It’s an honour,” said Leahy on the red carpet. Her date was her daughter, 17-year-old Mary Frances Leahy, who also played with the band. MacMaster was given the director’s special achievement award at Thursday night’s ceremony. I haven’t gone away here,” she said pointing to her heart with tears filling her eyes.īeing home for the ECMAs was “like a little piece of heaven again,” she added. “I’m scared that people from here will forget me or (think) that I’ve gone away. Living in Ontario for 20 years, she said she’s aware of her lack of physical presence in her homeland. “I don’t ever want to lose what I have from Nova Scotia,” she said during an interview on the red carpet. But she still managed to bring the house down by ending the show with her usual high-energy fiddle playing and step dancing. Retrieved December 7, 2020.Cape Breton fiddler Natalie MacMaster got a bit teary-eyed while walking the red carpet at the East Coast Music Awards at the Scotiabank Centre in Halifax on Thursday night. ^ "Order of Nova Scotia recipients-2020".^ "Governor General to invest 41 recipients into the Order of Canada".^ "A Celtic Celebration with Natalie MacMaster".^ "Live Reviews: The 1999 Juno Awards MaCopps Coliseum, Hamilton, ON"."REVIEW: Step-dancing violinists earn standing ovation in A Celtic Celebration at Lied Center". "MacMaster and Leahy have combined their love of music with their love of family". ^ Institute, Courtesy of the Park City.^ "White Stripes Gear up for Canada, Find Family Along the Way", SoulShine, June 19, 2007."Get Me Through December" (with Alison Krauss) Natalie & Buddy MacMaster: Traditional Music from Cape Breton IslandĪ Celtic Family Christmas (with Donnell Leahy) In 2006, she was made a member of the Order of Canada, and in 2020, she was made a member of the Order of Nova Scotia. MacMaster was also awarded an honorary doctorate from Niagara University in New York in 2006. She has received a number of Canadian music awards, including several "Artist of the Year" awards from the East Coast Music Association, two Juno Awards for best instrumental album, and "Fiddler of the Year" from the Canadian Country Music Association. She performed two songs with the trio: "C-H-I-C-K-E-N" and "Grandpa's Farm". In 2004, MacMaster appeared on Sharon, Lois & Bram's 25th Anniversary Concert special titled " 25 Years of Skinnamarink" that aired on CBC on Januat 7:00pm. In recent years she has expanded her musical repertoire, mixing her Cape Breton roots with music from Scotland and Ireland, as well as American bluegrass. In 1999, she performed at the Juno Awards show in Hamilton. Both albums were initially released only on cassette, but Rounder Records omitted a few tracks and re-released as A Compilation in 1998. Her first album was self-produced, while her second was co-produced by John Morris Rankin ( The Rankin Family) and Tom O'Keefe (as per original cassette jacket). When she was sixteen she released her first album, Four on the Floor, and a second album, Road to the Isle, followed in 1991. MacMaster began playing the fiddle at the age of nine, and made her performing debut the same year at a square dance in Glencoe Mills, Nova Scotia. Leahy and MacMaster have seven children, and have performed and recorded together as a duo, and occasionally include their children, who also play fiddle, in their performances. In 2002, she married fiddler Donnell Leahy of the Leahy family band, and moved to Lakefield, Ontario. ![]() She is also distantly related to Jack White. She is the niece of the late renowned Cape Breton fiddler Buddy MacMaster and the cousin of two other fiddlers, Ashley MacIsaac and Andrea Beaton. MacMaster is the daughter of Alex and Minnie (née Beaton) MacMaster and the sister of Kevin and David MacMaster. MacMaster & Donnell Leahy performing together at the 2018 Burlington's Sound of Music Festival ![]()
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