“With Donnell, I had to listen more deeply to subtleties in his music so that I wouldn’t muscle over them,” MacMaster says.
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Like any great marriage or artistic collaboration, MacMaster and Leahy have learned how to bring out the best in each other. And here I am now doing almost exactly the same thing. “I was so in awe of Donnell’s family,” says MacMaster, “of 11 siblings who could play and had a family band. They feel like a part of the tour and that provides amazing gratification.” Our kids are practicing and when they come out on stage and do their little number, it’s their reward. For me, the game was playing house parties. But you need to get into the game at some point. When I was a kid, I played the fiddle for my parents and my brothers and sisters. “But then one night we put Mary Frances on stage. We worried the expectations might be too much,” Leahy says.
“Initially we were reluctant to let the kids perform. Guests include Rhiannon Giddens ( Woman Of The House), Yo-Yo Ma ( So You Love), Brian Finnegan ( Colour Theory) - and, on Choo Choo, their 17-year-old daughter Mary Frances Leahy.Īll seven of their children have become essential components of the live show, which sells out performing arts centres across North America - especially leading up to Christmas holidays. Rock, pop, Latin and classical influences come to the fore on the new material of mostly original melodies. With a few challenges along the way, it was a delight from beginning to end.”
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As Donnell often said, ‘Let the music decide.’ So, we indulged in full musical freedom, throwing patterns of the past aside. There were no restrictions, rules, agendas, considerations. Like an empty canvas, our minds were clear, open for the music that was about to flow. “One thing Donnell and I were given in 2020 was the space and time to be creative, to think and focus and find what was inside of us. “Creativity comes when there is space for it,” says MacMaster. They approached it not bound by easy patterns or habits, but as a blank canvas. A power couple was born.Ĭanvas is only their third album together. They were married in 2002, by which point their cumulative album sales topped one million. They are two of the world’s top Celtic fiddlers: She a renowned, award-winning solo artist from Cape Breton he from the legendary Leahy family of Ontario, an intergenerational musical act that toured the world. A blank canvas is full of possibility - much like the partnership of Natalie MacMaster and Donnell Leahy, whose new album Canvas comes out March 17.
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