![]() ![]() ![]() Join us on your TV (or whichever device you choose) with your family and support your local theatre at the same time. ![]() We welcome families into our home to share some music, traditions, and cheer! See how we spend a day leading up to Christmas with our family. Ībout homeplay.live & this virtual concert: For more information on the contest, visit. This is a virtual concert, administered through homeplay.live, the “Buy Tickets at homeplay.live” link below will take you to the location where they may pay for and also view the final concert.Ĭhristmas Bonus: When you purchase a ticket, you will be automatically entered to win a trip for 2 to Cape Breton Island (when it is safe to travel). We are excited to team up with local theatres to present this show!!! Mostly music, it will also include candid moments around the kitchen, decorating the tree, and other bits of Christmas chaos!! This Christmas season, our family is inviting the world to our home, virtually, to witness our music, life and preparation at Christmas time. TICKETS: Tickets are $52.50 and $42.50 and are available at tickets.cape Breton.Natalie MacMaster & Donnell Leahy’s Celtic Family Christmas at Home The girls make the chocolate coconut balls and we usually pitch in on the dinner so nothing too crazy and wild.įAMILY: Husband Donnell Leahy and six children “Growing up in the home of Minnie and Allan MacMaster of Troy, Cape Breton, mom always made a turkey dinner and she’d usually make me tweed squares because I love tweed squares and she’d make chocolate coconut balls and so we make those things at our home now. While they’ll head back to their farm in Douro, Ont., immediately after the concert, MacMaster says there will be plenty of traditions that she will be passing on to her own children. They are occasionally joined by their little brother Alec, 5, and in Sydney, the youngest, Sadie, 3, will make her first appearance. The group is made up of siblings Mary Frances, 12, Michael, 10, Clare, 8, and Julia, 6. They appeared on the 2017 season of NBC’s “Little Big Shots” with Steve Harvey. MacMaster and Leahy will feature their children, the MacMaster Leahy Kids, at the Centre 200 show. “That’s a venue in Sydney where I have done a lot of playing over the years so I am so proud to take my husband and our six children to that stage and just play for the people I value most and the people I respect the most and the tradition that shaped my whole being really and my musical creator in all of that so it has very deep meaning for me and I’m really, really excited about it and really looking forward to it.” “This is first time we’ll be playing Centre 200 under our own name and not part of another show so it’s a big deal for me - it’s really exciting,” she says. Most of the American shows have been sold out and while sales have been good at Centre 200, there are still a few tickets available for anyone who hasn’t yet booked their seats.įor MacMaster, this will be a significant concert in her professional stage career. ![]() “The third thing you hope for are good ticket sales.” You want the music to be good and we’ve got a couple of new band members. And then the second thing you think of is the shows themselves. “Parents are concerned about their kids so all that’s going really well. 1, because we’re travelling as a family, you want that experience to always be positive,” says MacMaster. I’m very pleased - the things that you want to go well on a tour are No. The tour will wind up Friday at Sydney’s Centre 200. performing their Celtic Family Christmas shows, which showcases music from their “A Celtic Family Christmas” album. MacMaster and her husband Donnell Leahy and their children have been touring across the U.S. ‘Mom, is it five o’clock?’ There’s five of them anyway that keep waking up.”Īnd there isn’t much sleep before Christmas either. There’s still three more hours, go back to bed.’ So they go back to bed and a half-hour later, 2:30, somebody else wakes up. Well, they start waking up at two - they run over to your bed and ask, ‘Is it five o’clock, mom?’ Our rule is you’re not allowed to go downstairs before five o’clock. “Donnell and I don’t usually get to bed until late because we’re preparing everything. “It is the most tiring day of the year,” laughs the mother of six in a phone interview on Monday. SYDNEY - Christmas in the MacMaster-Leahy household is pretty typical, says fiddling superstar Natalie MacMaster. ![]()
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