![]() "The reason it's called 'Yours Truly' is because I feel it's more 'me' than what I've done before - just because I've written so much of it, and helped arrange so much of it, and helped produce it with my husband." She added that the album got its name from all of the personal input that MacMaster has had on this album - from start to finish. ![]() MacMaster said she'll be bringing her band - composed of guitarist Brad Davidge, pianist Allan Dewar, drum/percussionist Miche Pouliot, bassist John Chiasson and Matt MacIsaac on pipes, whistle and banjo) - to perform for the first time on "Yours Truly." "This is my 10th recording, but this is the first with my band." The Utah Symphony will also be featured at the beginning of the program, playing such related orchestral pieces as Malcolm Arnold's "Four Scottish Dances" and Mendelssohn's Scherzo assai vivace from Symphony No. So this is a little more upbeat than a regular symphony performance, and also there are some beautiful old Celtic ballads, as well - plus a bit of step-dancing." "A lot of symphony shows you go to tend to play more mood pieces, beautiful slow pieces. So basically I'll be doing a lot of what you would hear on my records - but play those tunes with the symphony."ĭrawing from previously released albums, a soon-to-be-released CD called "Yours Truly," and never-recorded material, the concert will be a collection of mostly up-tempo material. "I've got some great arrangers of music, and they take the traditional fiddle tunes and they arrange them for symphony. "The music itself that I play is what I would play even at a square-dance hall in Cape Breton," MacMaster said by phone from her home in Cape Breton. The Utah Symphony will be getting in the Celtic spirit of things this weekend with guest artist and Celtic fiddler Natalie MacMaster, who is from Cape Breton, an island off the east coast of Canada near Nova Scotia. ![]()
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