Natalie MacMaster - Tullochgorum

Live in Cape Breton, 2007 Features lightning-fast bowing at the end of the piece.

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[Poodlepups]

It's well played, but I have issues with the amplification devices that make it sound like a cheap electric violin. It doesn't ring as it should.

[morigue]

It's to be expected that there is a loss of sound quality, given that the video has been re-encoded/ re-compressed more than once to make it here to YouTube.

[laserspatula]

just throwing it out here, im searching for a few tunes I had a while ago and have got this far, definitely this style of fiddle playing with breton/french singing, i think there was a strong vocal of 'vous', any ideas!?

[morigue]

Have you checked out the videos by the Québécois group Le Vent du Nord?

[fourplusseven]

Heh heh.

If there's one thing I've learned in this lifetime, it's that most everyone thinks their way is the best way -- until they actually start looking at the other side of the fence clearly and in unbiased fashion. The problem is most people don't get that far and they get tribal about it. (In a bad way)

To recognize that there is such a thing as 'just as good as me but completely different..." is a good step for a human to take.

Enjoy, laters!

[ainefidileir]

I love your attitude!! Seriously!

The only reason I dislike so many classical players I know is simply because they are so damned convinced that there's only one way to do something...

then they get a bee in their bonnet to try this "wacky traditional music" and sound like crap! LOL

and that's only because they would never take any advice from us lowly trad and/or self-taught fiddlers :)

I have just as much respect for Hilary as I do Natalie.

It's about the feeling - the end product people!

[rickyranter]

This is Canadiana

[Joolz211]

@ainefidileir  Too true- I've seen this happen a lot, especially when classical players realise that they're not going to get the kind of recognition they were hoping for as 'serious' musicians. They then seek to involve themselves in 'alternative' forms of music.

[shaloneithne]

@ellenanna55 from my own experience sometimes it's harder NOT to dance. Especially if you know the tune well and it's a bouncy piece. It looks like she might even be doing this one by memory, if so it's even easier. There's a tune called Wassail that I CAN'T stand still and play even when I switch instruments to the recorder or the Psaltery.

[ellenanna55]

I recently took up the cello at the age of, ahem, 55, and I am amazed by this woman. The fact that she can dance and STILL hit every note on key alone is incredible not to mention the speed at which she can play! I am very excited to be seeing her in Ogunquit, Maine on the 26th of July!

[jingram97]

shes my best friends cousin...just sayin

[Varian128]

@Poodlepups

Amplifying the violin is so new that technology hasn't really had the time to generate decent pickups... The only way to get a really natural amplified sound is to use a microphone, but then there's feedback (especially in the size concerts she plays) as well as whether or not she is able to dance around like she does. I, personally, think it's a small loss in favour of getting to hear this wonderful fiddler. :)

[newticulz19]

i want to see a natalie macmaster VIOLIN HERO xD

[Benj888]

She must scratch a mean back.

[cowpoke1000]

If I wanted to listen to this muck I would look at Donal's videos. Do what you do best Natalie. Love ya!!

[samansun]

@sarahcrayner

She speaks the forgotten tongues of the past, practice just keeps it alive.