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Ashley MacIsaac
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Out of 21 votes - Similar Artists: Great Big Sea, Natalie MacMaster, Four80East
Out of 21 votes
- Location: Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada
- Genre: World » Celtic Fusion
Editor's review
On "Pride," the Cape Breton Celtic rocker takes a break from his Chieftans-y act and emerges as an scruffy singer-songwriter. Thankfully MacIsaac's blue-collar pub spirit remains intact in the form of a growly, whiskey-soaked vocal style, properly applied towards soapbox opining.
Biography
Ashley MacIsaac is the bad-boy of World music. This 29-year-old Nova Scotian found international acclaim in folk and roots music circles playing the fiddle in the working-class, pub-stomp Cape Breton way: fast, furious and with phenomenal precision. He is one of the top selling Celtic influenced Roots artists in North America of all time right up there with Loreena McKennitt and The Cheiftains, having sold in excess of 500,000 albums, headlined festivals, and appearing on the cover of Folk Roots magazine last year.
Pride signifies a bold step in a new direction for Ashley MacIsaac. The new disc offers us the first real glimpse inside the mind of Ashley MacIsaac. For the first time Ashley has abandoned his fiddle in the studio and has delivered a remarkable album, emerging as a singer-songwriter. Produced by Ron Lopata and John JK Kanakis, Pride's collection of songs are lo-fi arrangements with distorted guitars that have more in common with Tom Waits, Nick Cave, and Beck than with the traditional Celtic influences of his previous recordings.
