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Having performed with her parents and acclaimed fiddlers Natalie MacMaster and Donnell Leahy for over 600 shows, genre-defying fiddling (and piano) sensation Mary Frances Leahy is branching out with her fantastic debut solo album First Light. The innovative, eclectic nine-track collection of originals, co-produced by Mary Frances and Cuban guitarist Elmer Ferrer, is an amazing blending of Celtic, Latin, and Jazz influences."It's a bunch of styles you wouldn't think go well together," the Canadian phenom from the hamlet of Douro, Ontario says. "But once you hear it, you're like, 'Oh my gosh, I get it!' My sound is energetic. It makes me want to dance!" She isn't the only one. Whether it's the title track (which won a 2024 Cape Breton Tourism contest), the jazzy "Return to Skye," the alluring Latin-leaning "Camino" which equally shows her violin and piano prowess or the groovy fusion oozing from "Celticumbia," Leahy is confident and charismatic from start to finish. "The one thing I'm finding that's really cohesive between the genres is the role that dance plays with themusic," she says. "I'm finding that to be a common thread."
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