Natalie MacMaster

Celtic music will always be around, even if with the mainstream crowds it dies out.

When you return to the same area a few times, you get that frequent rapport with the public and the fans of the music along with having a certain warmth when you walk onstage.

I love jazz and pop rock and country. I grew up listening to Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, Def Leppard, AC/DC, Anne Murray - if I hear something really great... I want to be a part of it.

I always dreamed of writing in an orchestral context. But when you finish a piece, you want to hear it. So we played everything with Phish.

I would've done anything to work with Satyajit Ray.

His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship.