There is nothing that gives me greater peace than knowing I’m doing what I’m supposed to be doing. “As much as we tried our best to embrace the changes of the last couple of years, I was not fulfilled. “I think the thing that makes a person enjoy life, or be happy, or at peace, is feeling fulfilled,” MacMaster said. So now, this year, there is that sense of joy and excitement getting back on the road. “But I’m grateful for that - we got to do four awesome Christmas shows last year.” “The freaky part is, that when we do a Christmas show, I think ‘Oh my gosh, this is exactly what I love in a show, I can’t imagine what we’re going to do next year.’ And then as a whole year of life passes, with all the things you can’t foresee, and by the time the next year comes around, you like ‘I want to change this, and I want to change this,’ and you do it, and you think ‘that’s where I want it to be, and how I’m going to top this next year?’”Įven though the pandemic restrictions were lifting last year, MacMaster and Leady only did four shows in 2021, staying within Ontario. You get attached to the things of your childhood that felt right and good and true, and as you age you find you treasure those things more now.”Īnd like that spirit, each year that MacMaster and Leahy bring that show out on the road, there is a fresh charge. “The world is changing - thank God Christmas still feels like Christmas. “I cherish that feeling,” MacMaster told the Townsman in an interview. That’s the spirit that Celtic Family Christmas brings to the stage. Natalie MacMaster last played Cranbrook’s Key City Theatre in March, 2020 a sold-out show that was Cranbrook’s last live concert before the pandemic shut things down for an extended duration.īack on the road, MacMaster says the spirit of Christmas is a throughline that reconnects not just the pre-pandemic days with the post-pandemic days, but our childhoods with our adulthoods. The couple’s two oldest children, accomplished musicians and performers in their own right, are joining them on stage, to help kick off the Christmas season. Masters of the fiddle and Celtic music, Natalie MacMaster and Donnell Leahy, are once again back on tour with their Celtic Family Christmas concert tour, and touching down in Cranbrook on November 14.
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