UNC Asheville Hosts Natalie MacMaster;
Renowned Fiddler to Play Two Concerts February 28 and March 1

Natalie MacMaster

UNC Asheville will host celebrated fiddler Natalie MacMaster and her band at 8 p.m. Monday, Feb. 28, and Tuesday, March 1, in UNC Asheville’s Lipinsky Auditorium. A distinguished and dynamic fiddler, MacMaster plays a traditional style of Celtic jigs and reels that incorporates jazz, Latin and bluegrass influences. Tickets are $25 general admission and $10 for children ages 12 and younger.

A native of Nova Scotia, MacMaster has emerged as a leading figure in traditional Celtic and Cape Breton music. After winning countless awards for her early recordings, she began taking the long-established Celtic music scene by storm through incorporating a variety of unexpected elements such as jazz and Latin music. MacMaster has also collaborated with some of the country’s finest instrumentalists, including Bela Fleck, Sam Bush, Edgar Meyer and Alison Krauss, as well as with dozens of symphony orchestras.

MacMaster has recorded and released seven albums in Canada and the United States, and has received a Grammy nomination, two Juno Awards for Best Instrumental Album, and several Canadian Country Music Awards for Fiddler of the Year. She has shared the stage with such acts as Carlos Santana, Luciano Pavarotti, Paul Simon and The Chieftains. She has performed on ABC’s New Year’s Eve broadcast, as well as on “Late Night with Conan O’Brien” and “Good Morning America.”

MacMaster has been praised extensively, including in The Irish Post, Entertainment Weekly Magazine, and The New York Times. The Washington Post calls her “a combustible virtuoso” and The Boston Globe has said, “MacMaster takes folk music and makes it seem larger than life.”

For more information or tickets, call UNC Asheville’s Special Events Box Office at
828/232-5000.