Natalie MacMaster CM ONS (born June 13, 1972) is a Canadian fiddler from Troy, Inverness County, Nova Scotia, who plays Cape Breton fiddle music.
She has toured with the Chieftains, Faith Hill, Carlos Santana and Alison Krauss, and has recorded with Yo-Yo Ma.
[2] MacMaster began playing the fiddle at the age of nine,[3] and made her performing debut the same year at a square dance in Glencoe Mills, Nova Scotia.
[4] Both albums were initially released only on cassette, but Rounder Records omitted a few tracks and re-released them as A Compilation in 1998.
MacMaster has received a number of Canadian music awards, including several "Artist of the Year" awards from the East Coast Music Association, two Juno Awards for best instrumental album, and "Fiddler of the Year" from the Canadian Country Music Association.