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Search below by artist name or by genre to hear your favorite musicians, and to discover new ones! These finely edited features present the music and voices of artists discussing their songs, their sounds, their bands, their lives and their creative influences. The album won the 2000 Juno Award for Best Instrumental. Pyles, acousticmusic.Listen and enjoy our library of over 600 audio portraits of artists and their albums for free. In My Hands, an album by Natalie MacMaster, was released in 1999 on the Rounder Records label. Return to FAME Reviews Return to FAME Home Page This review may be reprinted with prior permission and attribution.

Natalie is a true master of the Cape Breton fiddle. It is a wonder that such diversity could all hold together, but MacMaster's fiddle keeps it working. One set of jigs ( Mom's Jig) even incudes Natalie's step dancing in the accompaniment - shades of John Hartford! There are enough jigs and reels to satisfy the Cape Breton fiddle connoisseurs, yet enough contemporary arrangements to keep the album interesting enough to appeal to a wider audience. There are thirty two instrumentals and two vocals on this album in fourteen tracks. With albums like In My Hands, which fused jazz, Latin, and the guest vocals of Alison Krauss, and the Grammy-nominated My Roots Are Showing, MacMaster has. Sharon Shannon plays accordion on several of the jigs and reels included in the mix. 01, In My Hands: The Drunken Landlady (Traditional, Stewart MacNeil, Natalie MacMaster, Gordie Sampson) Rating: 10.0. Guitarist Jesse Cook plays flamenco guitar on the track called Flamenco Fling, which also brings in trumpet and horn arrangements. Alison Krauss lends her beautiful voice in a lament called Get Me Through December. Natalie is joined on the album by some notable guest artists: Mark O'Connor is a fiddling giant in his own right and shares the spotlight on the tune Olympic Reel. In My Hands blends traditional Cape Breton fiddle with contemporary sounds of percussion, organ and electric guitar to produce an album that is interesting and quite enjoyable. There are even a couple vocals on this mainly instrumental CD.

Throw in some strings and get almost classical in Father John MacLeod's Jig. Later there are a number of traditional jigs and reels to set your feet to tapping. But Ive always wanted to express myself vocally on my albums. Moving on you find Blue Bonnets Over the Border, a Scottish marching tune with quite a lot of percussion and organ which are reminiscent of pipes and drums. Natalie MacMaster quotes from Love Expands In My Hands, the title track, is my very first vocal attempt, and Im not a singer as such. The album cover and the first vocal track would make you think you had a pop recording, but the second track has 6 traditional Cape Breton style fiddle tunes with a little bit of contemporary flavor from drums, organ and electric bass in the backup.

Depending on where on the album you listen, you find a different type or flavor of music - all with a common bond of Natalie's wonderful fiddle playing. ( In My Hands is a little like the blind men trying to describe an elephant. FAME Review: Natalie MacMaster - In My HandsĪ review written for Folk & Acoustic Music Exchange