Natalie MacMaster Christmas in Cape Breton December 2, 2010

Adult $37 | University Park Student $17 | 18 and Younger $27

Equally at home on the concert stage or at a folk festival, Cape Breton fiddler Natalie MacMaster is one of the most versatile and exciting young musicians on the folk and Celtic music scenes. MacMaster has collaborated and performed with Alison Krauss, The Chieftains, Paul Simon, Luciano Pavarotti, and Yo-Yo Ma. In her Christmas show, MacMaster invokes the holiday traditions of her native Cape Breton, an island that’s part of the Canadian province of Nova Scotia. Foot-tapping rave-ups, heart-wrenching ballads, and world-class step dancing—combined with MacMaster’s fiddling fireworks on Celtic melodies and Christmas carols—generate a “traditional fusion” delivered with ferocious energy. “To call Natalie MacMaster the most dynamic performer in Celtic music today is high praise,” writes a Boston Herald critic, “but it still doesn't get at just how remarkable a concert artist this Cape Breton Island fiddler has become.”

Official Website: http://www.cpa.psu.edu/events/macmaster.html