![]() ![]() Rock, pop, Latin and classical influences come to the fore on the new material of mostly original melodies. ![]() With a few challenges along the way, it was a delight from beginning to end.” As Donnell often said, ‘Let the music decide.’ So, we indulged in full musical freedom, throwing patterns of the past aside. There were no restrictions, rules, agendas, considerations. Like an empty canvas, our minds were clear, open for the music that was about to flow. “One thing Donnell and I were given in 2020 was the space and time to be creative, to think and focus and find what was inside of us. “Creativity comes when there is space for it,” says MacMaster. They approached it not bound by easy patterns or habits, but as a blank canvas. A power couple was born.Ĭanvas is only their third album together. They were married in 2002, by which point their cumulative album sales topped one million. They are two of the world’s top Celtic fiddlers: She a renowned, award-winning solo artist from Cape Breton he from the legendary Leahy family of Ontario, an intergenerational musical act that toured the world. Yes, Really.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. David Bowie & Marianne Faithfull Sing “I Got You Babe” In Ziggy Stardust’s Final Appearance.Photo Gallery: Nothing More with Crown The Empire and Thousand Below at Toronto’s Danforth Music Hall.My Next Read: “Share My Life A Journey of Love, Faith and Redemption” By Kem.5 Seconds Of Summer Announces World Tour And Live Album.Toronto Rocker Nice Vice Releases “Regrets And Cigarettes” Pick-Me-Up For Your Week.Berlin-Based Afropop Songwriter and Producer Mister Wawa Releases “Amina, Amina”.Tonia Cianciulli Returns With Emotional “Thousand Cries”.Sultans of String Win 2 Canadian Folk Music Awards: Global Roots Album Of The Year and Producer of the Year.Canvas follows the duo’s 2015 release One, their first recording together, won Instrumental Album of the Year at the Canadian Folk Music Awards, and A Celtic Family Christmas, the best selling seasonal album and concert tour currently on stage at performing arts centers across North America. ![]() Special guests include celebrated Classical cellist Yo-Yo Ma, and Grammy award winning Americana music/Appalachian banjo/fiddle player Rhiannon Giddens. Their new album Canvas, the pair stretch the boundaries of Celtic folk, experimenting with global sounds combining their virtuosic fiddle playing with more contemporary production and innovative arrangements, incorporating new instrumentation and contributing musicians. Canvas follows the duo’s 2015 release One, their first recording together, won Instrumental Album of the Year at the Canadian Folk Music Awards, and A Celtic Family Christmas, the best-selling seasonal album and concert tour currently on stage at performing arts centers across North America. Known as Canada’s reigning stars of Celtic music, the two musicians’ combined album sales exceed one million they sell out performing arts centers across North America, and their enthusiastic traditional folk music loving fan base (which boasts Shania Twain and The Chieftains) stretches from Sydney, Nova Scotia to Sydney, Australia. The entertainment world is filled with extraordinary stories of musical power-couples, but few match the beguiling true-life tale of Natalie MacMaster and Donnell Leahy. ![]()
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