Natalie MacMaster Plays at Tune at Buddy MacMaster's School

[bertwindon]

Thanks for the name of this tune which I first heard ages ago. Thanks also to Natalie M. for such an inspired rendition. You really got me Natalie, I shall just have to have a go - stand back, wear ear defenders please !.

[GKSireland]

FABULOUS!!!!!!!!! :))))

Right up there with Eileen Ivers & Martin Hayes!!!!

My first ever experience of Cape Breton,

Give me more!!!!

[elbowout]

Is that a Brad Higgins instrument?

[nllleonard]

Met her at Mark O'Connor's fiddle camp where she taught my daughter. What a lovely person and amazing talent!

NAncy

[nllleonard]

@nllleonard P.S. Should have said...wonderful song and video! THanks for sharing! ;)

[acefiddle]

She makes it look so easy !

[lefortable]

amazing!

[dgr8poss]

I'm sorry to ask but I have to! She's so cool and relaxed and so gooood..., but is she Irish?

[jteran29]

She is from Cape Breton island. Nova Scotia, Canada. She is a national treasure as far as i'm concerned.

[iraqidolphin]

Scottish I believe.

[Seanforfor]

This is what I love about U Tube....how else would I have discovered such a woman???? raw and unpretentious.......

[colt413]

shes not scottish shes canadian!

[barstuards1]

@colt413

Nova Scotia means "New Scotland" and the province is filled with Scottish immigrant descendants. So Natalie would be Scots-Canadian in the correct term. They area acknowledges its unique tradition but always respects and praises the Scottish (and Irish) roots of the culture.

[billclorraineg]

Man oh man can she ever play that violin....sweet music to my ears.....B & L

[rickittatin]

I would sell my soul to the Devil if it meant I'd be able to play fiddle like this lady!

[canadianboy40]

ohh! how this reminds me of home!!! farewell to nova scotia! ill be back some day, dont you worry.

[imacoolcanadian]

You took the words right out of my mouth! I've been out of NS way too long! Oh, how I miss it!

[canadianboy40]

lol i know!!!! i live the polar opposite of nova scotia, literally, in freakin texas, and it sucks the big one, sure its a great place, the culture is sure unique lol, and the people are friendly, but it still isnt home

[imacoolcanadian]

What a small world! I'm in North East Texas! h aha! I've been here just over 5 years. Lived in Oklahoma for a few years before that. Sure is different than home isn't it?

[canadianboy40]

lol youre kidding me! ever heard of a small town called mineral wells? its about an hour west of dallas

[imacoolcanadian]

I've heard of Mineral Wells, but haven't been west of Dallas yet. I'm just outside of Texarkana.

[wallygrundle]

So. Darn. Dreamy.

[danz2276]

She played at SUNY Stony Brook this past fall. People just got up and started dancing. Amazing.

[kirsty519]

The tune is spey of spate. fantastic tune, fantastic player :-)

[n0lovesongs]

God this woman rocks. I found her when I got into Celtic Woman. Mairead Nesbitt, the fiddler of CW totally rocks the world, but it's a different style from Natalie's so I can't compare them. Check her out if you like this!

[loppestreRockus]

You might want to give a listen to 9 time all Ireland Fiddle Champion and the "Jimi Hendrix of the irish fiddle", Eileen Ivers.

[nivlekkilbane]

love it!!!!!!!!!!!!

[barbkaus]

The first one I ever heard her play. Love it!!!

[CelloMoto]

I can't stop watching this.

She is incredible, even with a pretty standard fiddle song like this, she just makes it...I don't even know what.

Good lord.

[bigdjindustriez]

she couldn't hold a candle to JP Cormier's playing.. or Buddy MacMaster for that matter...but shes ok

[jakyb0y2]

um...are you for real. she shits on them both. not that they aren't good players, buddy is a legend. but, as much as i sound like a crazed fan saying it, her playing is so much better, more rythmic and exciting than anyone's i've ever heard. no exageration. have you watched any of her other videos on youtube? got any of her cds?

[kirsty519]

what a shocking comment. Buddy macmaster is the king of fiddling, granted, but he is a different generation and a different person.... Natalie is young and vibrant, and utterly superb in her own right.

[loppestreRockus]

The "king" of fiddling? You might want to qualify that.

But to reply to "bigdjindustriez", Natalie is known for her showmanship, as much as anything else. She is electric on stage and has drawn a whole new generation to some very important music. To her fiddling prowess, were she not a phenominal artist, she probably wouldn't have the global recording, recognition she enjoys. bigdjindustriez's comment is a bit like saying: Rachmaninoff doesn't hold a candle to Motzart... Ridiculous.

[jackthefiddler]

fantastic fiddling, thanks

[DDbRowN67]

beautiful!!! brava!!

[dogrukodese]

hi could you please send me the notes of the song you played. pleaseeeeeeee

[Papachulo57]

Fantastico!

[Bauholzwolf]

What tune is this?

[fiddlingsam]

It's called Spey in Spate

Glad you liked it.

Sam