How in the world do their arms not fall off??? Natalie has long been an amazing player, and sure looks like she and Donnell are raising an amazing new generation.
I dont think the audience appreciates how wonderfully talented Mary Leahy is. Natalie and her husband are doing a mighty fine job. I'm in awe of them all. Long live live fiddle playing.
One of my favorite vids with Natalie in it is when she helped Yo Yo Ma and Alison Krauss record the beautiful Wexford Carol! We live in a musical renaissance. Natalie and her family are PART of that renaissance.
Natalie is the best fiddle player in the world barred none and has been for some years. I have seen her in Milwaukee and Chicago and played one of her CD's while driving through Yellow Stone in Wyoming. Heaven on earth is the way I describe the experience. This one tune that I now can't remember just memorized me.The music set against the awesome scenery will stay with me forever.
…Natalie once said all her concerts are sought out and attended by the elderly? Because it’s an “older” Well, that’s not the case in Cape Breton! The crowd at this pub are so engaged, it reminds me of when I lived in Ireland. There are musicians performing FOR musicians I take it. And just artistically minded people too. Rhythmical inclination is a birth trait in Cape Breton, I’m convinced, even if one doesn’t play any instrument. Also, I’ve been playing, and always loved, Natalie’s variations on _Tullochgorum_ since I first bought her Live in Ottawa CD. Really I’d never even considered that I’d hear it, one day in the future, as a duet. Let alone with her daughter! Time flies. With those types of parents, she’s gonna be playing like both of them in no time at all. If not already! I can’t believe that it feels like just yesterday, I saw this young lady dancing, while her siblings and parents took turns fiddling! When the kids were sooo tiny, and each one younger and shorter came flying onto the stage dancing, it was so inspiring. At the final reel, with all the kids (and mom & dad) dancing and fiddling in a row, it actually caused me to weep… you guys are amazing. Natalie, you likely have met so many people by now, and won’t remember - but I met you at Mark O’Connor fiddle camp; at Point Loma Nazarene College, in San Diego, California in summer of 2006 - or was it 2007. 😉🤔But at this point, I’ve been a fan for twenty years!! All because I saw the Ottawa special on Bravo… I mainly play Irish music, from Donegal, Galway, Clare, & some other styles, but you opened my ears to CB! Learning all your albums, tune by tune, all the time, and my fiddler friends as well… so thanks for all the enrichment of our otherwise dramatic lives. Lol. Erik
First saw Natalie on BBC TV Edinburgh Tattoo, she looked about 20, playing and dancing on that big esplanade on her own , saying she is a legend is like calling a tsunami a splash of water☘️🇬🇧🌹🍀
My dad played bassoon in the St, Louis symphony orchestra for 48 years. As soon as he retired he and mom moved to Mabou, Cape Breton FOR THE MUSIC! He even learned to play the wooden folk flute there. (Easier to carry than a bassoon for sure!) It's a magical place. Almost every home has a piano and a fiddle even if they don't play. When talent stops by the rugs get rolled up and it's a spontaneous house party! The people of Mabou seem like you've known them for a lifetime and welcome you in like family. The Red Shoe Pub is amazing too. The dance hall is such an integral part of the social scene but I needed lessons to learn the steps. If you don't know about Jerry Holland you should look him up on YT. His fiddling and composition still gives me chills, in the best way. Put Cape Breton on your bucket list. You'll love it!
Jeez they can actually talk, tap, and play all at the same time; my brain completely shuts down if I even try to do anything except play. Freaking incredible.
Longs Peak highland games in Estes Park colorado has a fiddle contest that i participated in....Natalie was THE judge.( I did not place but it was fun, girls won) i do NOT remember what year it was....i still play and have placed in contests since then. GOD BLESS FIDDLE PLAYERS
First time I saw Natalie, she was 17, playing in New Jersey at a promo event for Canadian tourism. Later, I saw her opening for The Seldom Scene in Raritan, N.J.
The land clearances was tragic but in another way it was a good thing, because the Scot emigrants brought this wonderful strain of music to the new world and we can be thankful for it!!!
Now that bein’ a fair piece o’ fiddlin’! Dun made me thin’in o’ th’ ol’ country, tears ta me eyes, an’ dancin’ ta me ‘eart! Thank y’all, an’ ‘ope ta sumday makes it up ta yourn parts o’ th’ country!
Absolutely incredible!! So much talent, loved every minute of that beautiful traditional Cape Breton musical display. ‘Kitchen Parties’ are the best!! Thanks for sharing
It is a dream to visit Cape Breton, never more than after watching this. I love that she slipped her red high heels off. Means she is about to get down to bid-ness!
Traveled to New Brunswick, Cape Breton and Newfoundland a few times in early 2000's ...learned about Natalie...saw her In Portland Maine in an excellent concert ! Hope to see she and her musical family this coming December at Collins Center in Orono Maine ...this is perfect to keep me focused 💕❤
I would love to go to a house party at Natalie's God it must be awesome I grow up my hole life listen and playing and seen a lot of party over the years but would love to have a jam with her and her family if you see this Natalie and your passing though newfoundland on the was coast looks us up The Benoits the door is always open for a good time me old trout awesome video
Tunes (I think) Moxham Castle Tullogorchum Sally Gardens The Night We Had The Goats We’ll Aye Gang Back To Yon Town Moving Cloud Far From Home (in G then A) Old Kings Reel The Kings Reel (yes this is a different one) Black Mill Reel (in Am, then in Bm)
@@oedus Sorry, I am a piper, not a fiddler. The pipes have only nine notes so a lot of fiddle reels are out of piping range, inluding, i think, this one. Therefore I haven’t run across the name.
@@oedus While i am lipping off, i will go a bit further. A piper, except for Illeann and Northumbrian, can’t shut off the chanter so no staccato and no real punctuation. On top of that, we can’t change volume. All we can do to put in emphasis is with note duration and grace notes inserted between melody note. A competition 2/4 march, for example, has four or five gracenotes notes for each melody note…..keeps us pretty busy. And those gracenotes are spelled out in the sheet music and the piper is expected to play them all. The fiddle, though, is a free for all. The fiddler can inject a pause, change from loud to soft and enjoys a range of four octaves and any sharp and flat. So, the damned fiddle is far more expressive than the Scottish or border pipe. And its lighter and stays in tune. Not content with all the advantages fiddlers have over us (except in battle), those sneaky fiddlers have devised ways of imitating some of out nicer gracenotes. But, still, we persevere.
@@piperg6179 Hah! I won't pretend I didn't grin slightly reading your description of the advantages "we" fiddlers enjoy. I'm no stranger to the instrument, although the style is a relatively recent obsession, coming from a classical backround. Limitations notwithstanding I wish dearly my local trad group had a piper (or three). There's an inimitable quality to the sound, even if we fiddles are able to simulate it in some cases. Thank you for elaborating on the topic -- I was really not at all aware of how your expression contrasts with ours!
