See also: Fiddling Folk Music, Anglo-Canadian DiscographyĬape Breton Connection. MacDonald, Dan Hugh MacEachern, Donald Angus Beaton, Kinnon Beaton, John Campbell and Jerry Holland. Francis Xavier University (LLD, 1995) and Cape Breton University (D.Litt., 2006).Ĭomposers who wrote music for MacMaster include Dan R. He also received honorary degrees from St. MacMaster was only the third Canadian to receive the US Folk Alliance International Lifetime Achievement Award (after Stan Rogers and Edith Fowke ), and was the first non-Briton inducted into the Scottish Traditional Music Hall of Fame (2006). Helen Creighton Lifetime Achievement Award (2006). MacMaster's honours include the Canada Medal (1993), Order of Canada (2000), Order of Nova Scotia (2003), and the East Coast Music Awards' Dr. In 2006, the Celtic Music Interpretive Centre in Judique, NS, established the Buddy MacMaster School of Fiddling. He taught at the Gaelic school Sabhal Mòr Ostaig in Skye and at the Ceilidh Trail School of Celtic Music in Inverness, NS. Teachingīuddy MacMaster was considered one of the most influential mentors for musicians such as fiddler Ashley MacIsaac and gave workshops in Canada, the US and Britain (e.g., at Harvard University and the Isle of Skye). He was an Inverness municipal councillor from 1968 and a member of school boards and the board of the Sydney Steel Corporation.
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In 2007, he performed with his niece Natalie MacMaster on a BBC TV special.Īlongside his music career, MacMaster worked for the Canadian National Railways from 1943 to 1988. He made the first of several solo CDs at the age of 65. He was recorded by CJFX (Antigonish, NS), CJCB (Sydney, NS), and the CBC and BBC. He also performed with Symphony Nova Scotia. MacMaster appeared through Nova Scotia, Canada, the US and the UK for dances, in concert and in festivals such as the Atlantic Fiddlers' Festival, Cape Breton Fiddlers' Festival, Celtic Colours International Festival, Nova Scotia Highland Village Day, Cape Breton Fiddlers' Festival, the Nova Scotia international tattoo, and the Celtic Sundance Festival, Utah. As a member of the fiddle group Cape Breton Symphony, he toured Scotland and Canada, played as soloist, and performed at Edinburgh Castle's first ceilidh (1975). He was a guest in the launch of CJCB TV ( Sydney, NS) in 1953 and for several years performed on CBC TV's Ceilidh. A renowned dance player from age 14, MacMaster joined the wedding and dance circuit in 1949. His influences were Little Jack MacDonald, Angus Chisholm, Bill Lamey, Little Mary MacDonald, Dan R. His citation for the Order of Canada recognized him as an "ambassador of Canadian music and a mentor to many" who led "a Gaelic renaissance in Canada and abroad." Early Years and Careerīuddy MacMaster was born to amateur musicians from Cape Breton they moved to Judique, Cape Breton, NS in 1929. Known as "King of the Jigs," Buddy MacMaster was considered a major force in the survival of Cape Breton music and dance. Hugh Allan (Buddy) MacMaster, OC, ONS, fiddler (born 18 October 1924 in Timmins, ON died 20 August 2014 in Judique, NS ).
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