We haven’t even seen the show ourselves yet.” It’s many things and it connects so well to what we do. It’s lighthearted, it’s humorous and it’s heartwarming. He wants to complement and support the music in such a way it gives people some nice background and a bit of history. He has great sensibilities and great sensitivity to our show. “Through his storytelling and his delivery, he commands the stage. “He plays a couple of characters in the show,” MacMaster says. I remember one time I thought it would be cute, I forget where we were, but I said ‘OK, she’s been begging to come out … Mary Frances Leahy.’ She’d come out and jump around a little bit and it was really cute.” We’d be going on stage and she’d be seeing me dance and be seeing some of the band dance and she wanted to be part of that. She was playing Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. She got it and she started playing fiddle around that time, too. By the time she was three, she was trying little steps to imitate us so I thought I’d teach her a real step. “I remember playing shows as a new mother and all the new things that come with that, learning how to change diapers and feed a baby. “Mary Frances was our first-born I was 33 years old,” MacMaster says. It just sort of turned out that way because MacMaster and Leahy wanted to ensure their children were with them as they toured. Still, the couple certainly did not set out to produce an army of precocious Von Trapp-like kids playing Celtic music across the country. MacMaster was nine years old herself when she began playing the fiddle and only 16 when she recorded her first album. The children play fiddle, accordion and piano. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Increasingly, most of the couple’s children - which includes Mary Frances, Michael, Claire, Julia, Alex, Sadie, and six-month-old Maria - have been participating to various degrees. For the past six years, the MacMaster-Leahy clan has been taking to the stage to spread yuletide cheer with A Celtic Family Christmas. The three oldest children were in the van for the six-hour journey, and the conversation inevitably turned to the upcoming tour and, specifically, the exciting extracurricular activities the brood will engage in between the 24 shows. That’s why the kids keep coming in to say ‘Hi mommy! Hi mommy!” “We’ve been in the van for six hours and I’m literally doing this interview from my driveway. “One more second we’re always multitasking,” says MacMaster, who pauses to talk to one of her children. The next issue of Calgary Herald Headline News will soon be in your inbox. If you don't see it, please check your junk folder. Manage Print Subscription / Tax ReceiptĪ welcome email is on its way.
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