Wendy MacIsaac

What you get is a choice selection of Celtic material performed with great spirit by one of Cape Breton's most talented young fiddlers. Accompanied on piano by her cousin, Ashley MacIsaac, and by Celtic guitar greats Dave MacIsaac and Georgie Sampson, Wendy also incorporates stepdancers in the recording (including her mom and dad). In addition to the talents of Jamie Gatti, Tom Roach and John Alphonse, Wendy managed to lure previously unrecorded fiddle great, Willie Kennedy, into the studio.

With this recording, Wendy continues a tradition that has been nurtured for almost 200 years in her Inverness County home and for centuries before that by her Scottish ancestors.

Wendy MacIsaac began her performing career at the age of four as a stepdancer. She started fiddle lessons with Stan Chapman at the age of twelve, travelling back and forth from her home with neighbours Natalie MacMaster and Ashley MacIsaac. By 1990, Wendy was well established as one of the best of the new young fiddlers and was in great demand for dances and fiddle festivals throughout Cape Breton, where she is also recognised as an accomplished pianist.

Wendy has since entertained audiences across Canada and in the United States, Scotland and Italy. She has performed with the Rankin Family, the Barra MacNeils, Ashley MacIsaac, John Allan Cameron, Valdy and The Cape Breton Summertime Revue.