We were being asked to do things and had to tell people we don't have our own home recording studio. We thought it was time to get into the technical side of the recording. I'm sure a lot of people have thought it's time to take on a project that you've never afforded time to do, so you do it now while you've got time. We have to keep our music up it's our #1 livelihood. We thought why not take on a big project we are not going to stay in the house and eat, sleep and drink cows. We ended up, for the first time in our lives, purchasing recording equipment.
When Covid happened, that didn't seem like a possibility. We've been doing a lot of writing and were planning to get into the studio. Then there's the back and forth, and it just grows. One thought from one of us can inspire the other. It's a nice balance of ages where there are no types of those worries.ī.K: Covid Co-Write. The oldest is fourteen and down to age two. They miss social for sure, but it isn't a catastrophic thing to not be with their friends. They are not quite old enough to move about. Not much has changed for schooling.ī.K: You must have felt more secure with kids at home than in an open environment. For the piano lessons, it's three hours every Thursday morning through Skype. Some of the classes the older kids go to a friend's place for math and science and a couple of online courses my friend does by Skype. They are also home-schooled, and that didn't change. We have five horses that the kids always want to ride. We breed cows with the bull, the calves kept for a year or two, then sold. Their operations have always been cow and calf. My husband, Donnell, has been a farmer since he was born – his father, his father's father, and that farming blood is bred right into him. We were eating junk food.ī.K: How did the kids feel about that? There's seven. We got out our projector we always take it on tour and we set it up in our basement and suddenly had this home theatre. We watched a lot of movies in the first couple of weeks. Having everybody there and doing lots of things we never do. There is something glorious about not having to go anywhere for a family constantly on the go - a mother's kind of dream in a sense. All the running around we normally do just came to a stop. When I first got home, there was this joy and appreciation for having one another and living on a farm there was a novelty to it. It's very scary, and you just want to be with your family and be safe.
I was really glad to get home and when away from home, worrying about this awful virus. When it first happened, I was pulled from a tour and came home early. Natalie MacMaster: Well, thanks for asking. They also have seven children who, for their part, shine on stage as the MacMaster Leahy Kids.Īnd now, for the first time ever, they're opening up to the public a writing opportunity with an invitation to finish a melody they've started temporarily called the "Covid Co-Write."Įntries in MP3 or WAV format for "Covid Co-Write" close July 31st at 11:59 pm EST and can be sent to King: How are the MacMaster/Leahy kids making out these past few months? Natalie MacMaster and Donnell Leahy share hundreds of thousands of albums sold a Grammy win, 14 Juno nominations and four wins, a Canadian Folk Music Award, 21 East Coast Music Awards, five Canadian Country Music Association win, a Gemini win, four honorary doctorates, an induction into the Casino Nova Scotia Hall of Fame, an Academy Award-winning documentary, and a Member of the Order of Canada between them, both as solo artists, frequent collaborators, and Donnell in Leahy alongside his ten siblings. We tend to get lost in publicity, managed imagery, and forget that when the lights dim many artists long for home or go directly home and put food on the family table and read a child to sleep, yet the ideas and music never stops. It came a day after speaking with singer Kim Stockwood, who also spoke of family, teenage boys.
Lives spinning out of control, the fast pace of commitments lost, after school rendezvous, soccer matches, piano lessons, sporting events – that family in motion dynamic has hit the brakes. We last spoke May 2015, and Natalie MacMaster was short on time, not for the interview – music time, write and record time.
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