The fiddle music of Nova Scotia’s Cape Breton Island gets its character from the Scottish immigrants who settled the area in the late 18th and early 19th centuries–in fact, many traditions that have ...

CAPE BRETON, Canada (CNN) -- "I've been hearing fiddle music since I was in the womb, I'm sure," says Natalie MacMaster , considered by many to be the premiere female fiddler in this Canadian pocket ...

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 ...

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 ...

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) - ...