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Cape Breton Girl
May. 1st, 2012 10:43 pmSo I listened to Natalie MacMaster's latest album Cape Breton Girl. It's a lively traditional album, filled with some rollicking tunes, likely to get your toes tapping with the possible exception of the slow air known as "The Methlick Style". The album was concluded with the beautiful and solemn "Our Father", a Gaelic version of "The Lord's Prayer".
On an amusing note: when the time came to have a release party, she decided to stay home and combine the house concert/kitchen party with her family and friends at her house. Now it should be pointed out that MacMaster's family is littered with Cape Breton fiddlers and/or musicians, plus she's married to the fiddler for the Leahy family, not counting her usual members of her band. That's a helluva jam session by most people's standards.
On an amusing note: when the time came to have a release party, she decided to stay home and combine the house concert/kitchen party with her family and friends at her house. Now it should be pointed out that MacMaster's family is littered with Cape Breton fiddlers and/or musicians, plus she's married to the fiddler for the Leahy family, not counting her usual members of her band. That's a helluva jam session by most people's standards.
