Canvas follows the duo’s 2015 release One, their first recording together, won Instrumental Album of the Year at the Canadian Folk Music Awards, and A Celtic Family Christmas, the best selling seasonal album and concert tour currently on stage at performing arts centers across North America. The award-winning fiddlers from Canada have recorded their 12th annual MacMaster-Leahy. Special guests include celebrated Classical cellist Yo-Yo Ma, and Grammy award winning Americana music/Appalachian banjo/fiddle player Rhiannon Giddens. Natalie MacMaster and Donnell Leahy are performing A Celtic Family Christmas at home this year. ![]() Their new album Canvas, the pair stretch the boundaries of Celtic folk, experimenting with global sounds combining their virtuosic fiddle playing with more contemporary production and innovative arrangements, incorporating new instrumentation and contributing musicians. Known as Canada’s reigning stars of Celtic music, the two musicians’ combined album sales exceed one million they sell out performing arts centers across North America, and their enthusiastic traditional folk music loving fan base (which boasts Shania Twain and The Chieftains) stretches from Sydney, Nova Scotia to Sydney, Australia. 3 PM EDT Southam Hall 1 Elgin Street Ottawa Canada Music Folk Holidays In-person event The return of one of our favourite holiday traditions Celtic music superstars Natalie MacMaster and Donnell Leahy and their children are inviting you to be a part of their holiday celebrations. ![]() The entertainment world is filled with extraordinary stories of musical power-couples, but few match the beguiling true-life tale of Natalie MacMaster and Donnell Leahy.
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