A common dynamic binds Cajun fiddle playing and the melodic rhythms of Cape Breton sound. Neither is highly structured or technically intricate in its expressions, but both sure make you feel good ...

Cape Breton, to many around the globe, seems to be a tucked-away, mystical sort of place, an island that’s visited only as an afterthought by wealthy families shopping in Halifax, Nova Scotia’s ...

Blackstone River Theatre, 549 Broad St., will present a concert of Scottish and Cape Breton fiddling featuring Scottish Fish ...

Jerry Holland, from Cape Breton, and Tommy Peoples, from Ireland, are masters of their respective styles of fiddling. Together in concert they will display similarities as well as the differences of ...

Natalie MacMaster and Donnell Leahy are known as Canada’s reigning stars of Celtic music. Some people go even further with the praise, geographically speaking. They are "two of the planet’s very best ...

Ceilidh Trail School concert: Reels (Brenda Stubbert, fiddle ; Brian Doyle, guitar ; Richard Wood, piano) (3:37) -- Port Hood Arena dance: Strathspeys and reels (Jackie Dunn MacIsaac, fiddle ; Wendy ...

Only a handful of Cape Breton fiddle musicians have achieved fame beyond the island s shores. One of them is Natalie MacMaster, who literally wears her culture on her sleeve, performing jigs, reels, ...

Dynamic fiddler Natalie MacMaster returns to George Mason University directly from a weekend at the East Coast Music Awards in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where her latest album, “Cape Breton Girl,” won for ...

BRATTLEBORO -- The Acoustic Music Series at Hooker-Dunham Theater & Gallery continues with a fiddle twin bill featuring legendary Cape Breton fiddler Jerry Holland and Ed Pearlman, Scottish fiddle, ...

Natalie MacMaster first picked up the fiddle at age 9 and hasn’t looked back. Her Cape Breton fiddling remains both raw and refined. She performs around the globe with her feverish fiddling andstep ...

Thomas MacDonnell's strathspey/traditional strathspey/My great friend John Morris Rankin/Maire O'Keeffe reel/Francis Beaton's reel (4:22) -- Quickstep/Gordon's trip to Sydney/ The garden wall (3:09) - ...