“We’ve loved doing these tours over the years at the holidays, and this year we’re very excited to announce that we are having an actor in our show for the first time. Peterborough is just down the road from where the Leahy family live near Lakefield. Catharines, Brockville, Brampton, Ottawa, Kitchener and Toronto before wrapping up with three shows in Peterborough – two on Dec. The tour began in late November on the west coast, and is currently heading east through Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba, before entering Ontario on Dec. All are incorporated, to some degree, in performances by their parents, including their current A Celtic Family Christmas, which is traversing Canada throughout the month of December. She follows a six-pack of little Leahys, starting with eldest daughter Mary Frances, who is 12, followed by 11-year-old Michael, Claire (9), Julia (7), Alex (6) and four-year-old Sadie. That’s right, you read that correctly, the couple recently welcomed yet another new addition to the family in the personage of little Maria. It’s a testament to MacMaster’s eminent patience and professionalism that she is able to conduct a lively and engaging interview, whilst also doing the various and sundry requirements of maintaining a busy household. The Canadian fiddling legend, who is married to another fiddle superstar, Donnell Leahy, has not only made beautiful music as a solo artist and in collaboration with here eminently talented spouse, but the two have also collaborating on a lucky seven brood of healthy, happy and talented kids, ranging in age from 12 to six months old. The hustle and bustle of life with seven young children is evident in just one short conversation with Natalie MacMaster. The tour will make one stop in New Jersey, at the State Theater in New Brunswick tonight at 8 o'clock.Fiddle icons Natalie MacMaster and her husband Donnell Leahy – along with their kids – are touring the nation with their A Celtic Christmas show until Dec. The five violinists range in age from Ms. Williams was born in Muskogee, Okla., and began playing professionally at the age of 10, in his brother-in-law's string band. In a telephone interview from Wisconsin, the first stop on the tour, Mr. Williams said he took lessons for a few years and learned to play guitar, mandolin, banjo, cello and violin. His jazz violin style, he said, is defined "by the way I play the changes of the melody - you have to know quite a lot about the changes and the chords." He improvises a lot, he said. In the 1920's, he became friends with Stuff Smith, a jazz violinist who influenced both his life and his musical style.
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"I do everything wrong - I eat a lot of sugar and salt, but I have good genes." Williams is often on tour and maintains a full schedule despite his 86 years.
Joe Wilson, executive director of the National Council for the Traditional Arts, said of Mr. Williams received Downbeat's Player of the Year award in 1937 and that "there's a kind of ferocity to the way he plays." Williams: "He looks about 55." He said that Mr. Doucet is the lead vocalist and instrumentalist of Beausoleil, an ensemble of Cajun musicians. On the tour, he will play with his brother David, a guitarist, and Mitchell Reed, a violinist.
"We'll show the spectrum of Cajun style," Mr. One feature is the "twin fiddle style," he said. It's from the 1700's and 1800's, when there were just two fiddles and no guitar." "The lead fiddle plays the melody, and the second fiddle is percussive, baritone, a contrapuntal melody. Mulvihill is the son of a legendary fiddler, the late Martin Mulvihill. The son started playing late - he was 13 and wasn't interested in Irish fiddling until his family emigrated from Northampton, England, to the Bronx in 1965. Baker spent many years working with Bill Monroe, the noted bluegrass player. "Baker is responsible for the development of bluegrass fiddle style as it exists today," Mr. "He is a former coal miner from eastern Kentucky, and he's also a guitarist."Ī violin maker, John Cooper, travels with the violinists, giving demonstrations of how the instruments are made.
The National Council for the Traditional Arts, which produced the program, is a private, not-for-profit corporation dedicated to the presentation and documentation of folk and traditional arts in the United States. The organization was founded in 1933, and it offers programs in music, crafts, stories and dance, emphasizing authenticity in presenting traditional arts to the public. The concert will last about three hours, and it just touches the surface of folk violin styles, Mr. "There's an array all across the country," he said.
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