Our parents spoke it but it definitely skipped a generation. I don’t speak Gaelic and neither does Donnell. The kids are learning a bit of Gaelic, and on the new CD they sing “Silent Night” in Gaelic.
How important to you are other Celtic traditions? You keep the purity by having kids hearing it and feeling it before seeing it. It’s not passed down through notes as much as it’s passed down through ear. The ear comes first and the notes are second. Not that we’re against notes.īut I definitely think if you can only have one or the other, the most important thing is your ear. But in terms of us teaching them fiddle, we don’t use notes at all.
Our kids are taking Royal Conservatory piano so they’re learning notes there. Did you also learn strictly by ear? Is that how you’re teaching your children? I remember your husband saying that he and his siblings couldn’t read music. So between them, when one or two are away, they manage it and there are a couple of relatives who help out as well if necessary. With the best brother-in-law in the world! There are three boys who run the farming operation.
How do you manage to tour for 1/3 of the year and still keep the cows fed? It would be a very unloving thing to say, “Come live with me! Abandon all your generations of farming and the land that you love.” And knowing that, there was no strain, no pulling, it just was.įarming is a 24/7 commitment. It was so obvious in my mind that him coming from a farming background and having lots of cattle and owning a home and owning farm acreage and me renting an apartment in Halifax it was the right thing to do. NM: When we were still dating, I remember saying that if one of us had to move, I’d move to Ontario. Natalie & Donnell performing at the 2016 Lowell Folk Festival! 📸: #music #musicfestival #festivalseason #summer #folk #concert #hadablast #celtic #capebreton #novascotiaĪ photo posted by Macmaster & Leahy on at 10:56am PDTĪpt613: What was the biggest adjustment to joining a large extended family and moving to a farm?
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