![]() And the kids will be coming out to visit me part way through the tour. But we are very prayerful in all the decisions we make and we try to do what’s best for our overall good, and so we felt this was the right thing to do. 75, July 11, 2004, Leahy, Irish American Heritage Center, Chicago Irish Fest. It’s her first stretch away from the children, and in all honesty, she’s dreading it. 74, January 31, 2004, Natalie MacMaster, Music and Dance Theater of Chicago. The next big tour will see MacMaster opening for Johnny Reid on an excursion across the country, including a stop at Ottawa’s TD Place on March 26. ![]() If the kids are at the show and they want to play on stage, and they can, then it’s just natural that they should.” Everything that happened with my career was a very natural progression. But as Donnell said, what’s happening is all very natural. “They’re a little young to be included in over 100 shows a year. “We’re trying to figure that out,” says MacMaster. ![]() Then we thought, ‘Of course, let’s write them a tune.’ So we wrote it in five minutes,” says MacMaster, noting that the electric guitar flourish was Donnell’s idea not Ezrin’s. “We realized two days before we were getting married that we had forgotten to think of giving a gift, some little piece of memorabilia sitting at your place that guests can take home. The music was written out on a sheet of paper, rolled into a scroll and tied with a red ribbon. There’s a contemporary twist to the mostly Celtic fare on the album, including an electric guitar solo that adds an unexpected dimension to Wedding Day Jig, a fiddle tune that MacMaster and Donnell co-wrote as a gift to the guests at their 2002 wedding. He was an absolute delight to work with, and we really feel he contributed very significantly to the attitude of the project.” “There was nothing that he suggested or said that ever made us think, ‘Boy, he’s used to working with the big rockers.’ He’s just an honest listener. “He did not have a rock ‘n’ roll perspective at all,” she says. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Manage Print Subscription / Tax Receipt.National Capital Region's Top Employers.Reach Gazette reporter Jeff Wilkin at 395-3124 or at or on Twitter. I see them on the new land and the sun rising and beauty all around them and great hope.” “I can see them coming across the water and the waves crashing. “I can really imagine my ancestors sailing on a boat across the water, leaving their homeland and the despair they must have felt and the anticipation and wonder and excitement they must have also felt coming to a new land, with hopes for a good future for their families and the continuation of the music that took root in Cape Breton. 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, 2023. “I can just sense the depth in it when I play it,” she added. Event Tickets Center is a resale marketplace with tickets available to thousands of events. Huge selection of 100 guaranteed tickets. ![]() View Natalie MacMaster tour dates with seating maps. “I played it on stage with the band for the first time, and I loved it. Buy Natalie MacMaster tickets at Event Tickets Center. “It’s a 300-year-old piece of Scottish music and it’s on the recording,” MacMaster said. One of the songs she and Leahy will play on Wednesday is “Hector the Hero,” a tune that might put people in a traveling mood. Clips of family and Cape Breton will be part of the show maybe the kids will show up too - the junior members of the MacMaster-Leahy troupe have danced and fiddled during past shows. For the show at The Egg, MacMaster and Leahy will have video components. She says the music on “One” translates well. often times when we do in the studio isn’t something that necessarily translates on stage.” “For me, through the years I make CDs and then I’m done with the music, I go on to something new. “The norm is to record a CD and then play the stuff,” she added. Playing tunes from a recording - in concert - is unusual for MacMaster. We do stuff on there that’s very traditional Cape Breton, and we do stuff with heavy electric guitars and everything in between.” I love the arrangements, I love the mix, I love the variety of pieces. “I would say it’s really musically broad and very tasteful.
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