May 18, 2018
About This Episode
In 2014 two of the world’s most
celebrated fiddlers came together at the Big Top in an evening of
traditional fusion, combining the best of French, Celtic and Cajun
styles. While electrifying Cape Breton fiddler Natalie MacMaster
has collaborated and performed with Alison Krauss, the Chieftans,
Paul Simon, Pavarotti and Yo-Yo Ma, Donnell gained a reputation as
the spirited and athletic leader of Leahy, the Ontario-based,
eight-piece family band bearing his surname. When these two
electrifying virtuosos married in 2002, it was a meshing of two of
the greatest fiddle players in the world. Says Natalie, “This is
very much a family affair.”
About Michael Perry
Michael Perry is a New York Times
bestselling author, humorist and radio show host from New Auburn,
Wisconsin.
Perry’s bestselling memoirs include
Population 485, Truck: A Love Story, Coop, and Visiting Tom, and
his latest, Montaigne in Barn Boots: An Amateur Ambles Through
Philosophy. His first book for young readers, The Scavengers, was
published in 2014 and first novel for adult readers, The Jesus Cow,
was published in May of 2015.
Raised on a small Midwestern dairy
farm, Perry put himself through nursing school while working on a
ranch in Wyoming, then wandered into writing. He lives with his
wife and two daughters in rural Wisconsin, where he serves on the
local volunteer fire and rescue service and is an intermittent pig
farmer. He hosts the nationally-syndicated “Tent Show Radio,”
performs widely as a humorist, and tours with his band the Long
Beds (currently recording their third album for Amble Down
Records). He has recorded three live humor albums including Never
Stand Behind A Sneezing Cow and The Clodhopper Monologues.
Learn more about Michael and where
to get his publications at www.sneezingcow.com.
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