![]() The pieces will come together to form a chain to put on the family Christmas tree. She went to the store to buy shiny gold paper, glue sticks and markers to complete her chosen craft, which has her kids writing daily good deeds on pieces of paper. ![]() “I woke up early and thought, ‘What Advent craft can I do on a bus?’” “Like, right now, I’m trying to get my kids to be spiritually prepared for the Advent,” MacMaster said. Most of the time, there’s a mix of dirt and shine. “Sometimes there’s no glamour at all,” she said. Their life on the road comes with plenty of bumps, especially as MacMaster homeschools her kids on the tour bus. “It’s something that was passed onto us and now we get to keep that going.” She also sees the beauty in the happy accident. ![]() “They all kind of happened to take naturally to the fiddle and like being on the road with mom and dad.” “In one sense I take it for granted, like it’s not that big of a deal,” she said. Each child (so far) has fallen for the fiddle. The luck continued when they started having kids and teaching them to play music. “It was sort of too good to be true, two fiddlers getting married.” “I think everybody thought, ‘You better,’” she said. It was sort of obvious, MacMaster said, that they’d start playing together. In 2002, she married Leahy, a fiddler who previously performed in a folk band with his 10 siblings. “The fiddle came easily to me.”įrom there, a lot happened because of the fiddle. She was born in Cape Breton to a musical family (fun fact: Jack White is a relative) and could step-dance before she could walk. MacMaster remembered it was something about how she got her start in music. The Canadian crew is bringing their “A Celtic Family Christmas” to the Ent Center for the Arts on Wednesday. They go on tour with her and her fiddle-playing husband, Donnell Leahy.Īnd the older five, with their own fiddles, join their parents on stage. “I’m a mother of seven,” she says, casually offering the world’s best excuse for forgetting something.Īll seven of her children, ranging in age from 1 to 14, were somewhere around during a recent phone interview with the award-winning fiddler. Let’s forgive Natalie MacMaster for momentarily forgetting the question.
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