Natalie MacMaster

Catharines, Ontario December 5, 2015 This was the only Christmas show performed by husband and wife Natalie MacMaster and Donnell Leahy.

“Canada? Really? After this week?” remarked one patron seated nearby who was likely still in thaw mode following the 18 inches of snow that buried Richmond three days earlier.

To broadly paraphrase an old cliche, you can take the fiddler out of Cape Breton, but you can pretty much forget about the reverse. For the majority of her highly physical sold-out performance last night at the Bomhard Theatre of the Kentucky Center for the Arts in Louisville, Canadian fiddler MacMaster uph

Indeed, there’s rarely a moment where you see him on stage and he’s not sporting a big grin and exuding the fact that there’s no place he’d rather be.