Welcomed this year was a new addition to the show. This drummer boy bops, jumps and jives and then melds perfectly back into a Celtic swing that had everyone swaying in their seats. Gone are the rum-pum-pum-pums, now replaced by funk. These old melodies were given a twist in the ye’ ol’ Celtic spin cycle! Tunes we’ve all heard hundreds of times were warm and fresh, like a batch of gingerbread right out of the oven and they’re just as sweet. “Tonight you are going to hear a lot of old melodies we would have played at Christmas parties.” “I found that my own personal Christmas growing up in Cape Breton was a unique one and Donnell, his mother bring from there and his father being of Irish descent, had a lot of similar traditions,” MacMaster told a crowd full of smiles, a few Santa hats and at least two tacky Christmas Sweaters. Of course, both being part of large musical families helped ensure the merry melodies flowed like a nice batch of “medicinal Egg Nog” every time December rolled around. With 16 years of marriage and 7 kids, she and Donnell have carved out quite a few over the years. There was work to do when their festive fiddlin’ folks hit the stage! The snow storm of step dancing started right out of the gate with the older kids strutting their stuff while the youngest nestled onto a couch and wrestled playfully with a Santa hat.Īfter an impromptu rendition of “Happy Birthday To You” for an audience member who shouted out that they were celebrating more than the Christmas season that night, MacMaster told the audience that the show would be about traditions, some they might expect and some they probably wouldn’t. Gifts were placed under the centre stage tree but no time to tear open the wrapping just yet. It all began with the wee ones and a wagon as the kids pulled a Radio Flyer out on stage to the jovial sound of fiddles.
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