Natalie MacMaster is a virtuoso Canadian fiddle player from Cape Breton who’s brought traditional East Coast music to the rest of the world. She was nine when she got her first fiddle, but she felt like she already had nine years of experience at that point because she had been surrounded by fiddle music from the time she was born. Now, Natalie has released a new memoir, I Have a Love Story, which traces her incredible life in music. Last fall, she sat down with Tom Power to talk about her first fiddle, the advice Santana gave her when she broke a string on stage, and how to get your kids to practice music at home (she has seven children herself).
