MacMaster's latest album, In My Hands, which has sold a respectable 40,000 copies south of the border since its release there in October, is getting airplay on some 50 American radio stations. If she is big in Canada, MacMaster is even bigger in other countries, where the critics are entranced and her tours sell out. These days, she's everywhere - touring Canada, flogging Tim Hortons doughnuts, performing at the Juno Awards in Toronto on March 12, and co-hosting the recent East Coast Music Awards in Sydney, N.S., where she won the prizes for female artist of the year and roots/traditional artist of the year. But MacMaster is doing just fine as the embodiment of sweetness and light. It may have seemed, with the headline-grabbing antics of Ashley MacIsaac, that gifted Cape Breton fiddlers had to have a dark side. "It was so gross - I'd be signing autographs and my frigging thumb would be bleeding. "But I stopped that at Christmas," she says.
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MacMaster, who, up close, has a flawless complexion to go with her cascading blond curls, even used to pick the skin around her cuticles until her fingers bled. Occasionally, she gets a little weary of having to do her trademark step dancing while playing the fiddle. Sometimes, she says things she doesn't really mean to people she cares about. The 27-year-old gets impatient when driving behind someone slow.
When pressed by an interviewer for details, Canada's Celtic darling hems and haws, then comes right out with the awful truth. Sure, she goes to mass every week and calls her mom back in tiny Troy, N.S., every couple of days - no matter whether she's touring in Europe or cutting an album in Toronto. MacMaster, NatalieĬape Breton fiddling virtuoso Natalie MacMaster wants it known that she's no goody two-shoes. Natalie MacMaster's traditional Cape Breton fiddling style is based on a rich Highland Scotland repertoire from the 17th to 19th centuries (photo by Richard Beland, courtesy Natalie MacMaster).
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