![]() 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 children of Poss have chosen to honor her memory by funding an annual concert.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. After her tragic death in 1988, the Bernice Poss Award was established to honor her many contributions to the community. Poss had a 23-year career with the University at Buffalo. For more information call 71 or Natalie MacMaster's Website Natalie MacMaster's Twitter Natalie MacMaster's FacebookĪ Bernice Poss Memorial Concert This concert is made possible in part through a gift from The Bernice Poss Memorial Fund. Tickets can be purchased online at, , or at the Center for the Arts Box Office on Tuesdays through Fridays from 12 - 6 p.m. Tickets for Natalie MacMaster and Donnell Leahy are $29, $42, $52 and go on sale to the general public Friday, Oct. With milestones including another hotly anticipated Christmas tour, an accompanying TV special, a pending third installment of their Greenbridge Celtic Folk Fest, and a recent Road Gold Award from the Canadian Independent Music Association, Natalie MacMaster and Donnell Leahy are consistent favorites of Center for the Arts audiences. Widely recognized as one of the best fiddlers in the world, his high-energy playing style makes him a highly popular performer. ![]() Donnell is the former music leader of the internationally acclaimed family group Leahy, winner of three JUNO Awards. She has also won two JUNO Awards and 11 East Coast Music Awards, was nominated for a Grammy. Throughout MacMaster’s 25-year recording career, she has released 11 albums notching sales of more than 200,000 copies. ![]() Their synergy was brilliantly showcased on the pair’s first recorded collaboration, 2015’s Bob Ezrin-produced album One, a crowning achievement complementing combined album sales of over one million, a CV listing cellist Yo-Yo Ma, bluegrass star Alison Krauss, and banjo ace Béla Fleck as past collaborators (and Shania Twain and The Chieftains as fans) plus a devoted audience stretching from Sydney, Nova Scotia to Sydney, Australia. It’s unexpected and awesome.” Though MacMaster and Leahy followed different trajectories to this point - she a Cape Breton native who could step-dance before she could walk, he the oldest brother of the acclaimed family group Leahy - both have confidently crested the traditional music peak. “It has carried me through my childhood, through my teens, my young adult life, my married life and now motherhood. “I’m continually amazed by what the fiddle has brought to my life,” MacMaster offers. While both were already stars in their own light, propelling their dazzling careers since childhood, the award-winning fiddle virtuosos have cemented their status as Canada’s reigning couple of Celtic music. To fans of fiddle music, Natalie MacMaster and Donnell Leahy need no introduction. in the Mainstage Theatre, located at the Center for the Arts, North Campus. The University at Buffalo Center for the Arts will present “ Natalie MacMaster and Donnell Leahy” on Tuesday, Feb.
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