Natalie MacMaster fiddles in reel time

It's amazing what a couple of fiddles can do for you.

You'll be putting on your pink shoes and dancing to Jett's fiddles like the rest of us.

But consider a case like Spain, where so much money has fled the banking system and continues to flee as Europe fiddles over the implementation of a common banking system.

Oh yeah, okay, in my family we had seven girls, four boys, we had two fiddles and one piano, and of course we were all fighting to play on the instruments, so dad and mom set a rule that you couldn't kick anyone off the instrument.

German, they'd all meet, and of course at night, they'd play cards and step dance and play fiddles, and over the course of many years, the Ottawa Valley fiddling kind of evolved and the Ottawa Valley step dancing evolved, so that's, I kind of started out with that style and I quickly started doing my own thing, and then I met Natalie, and I was exposed to the great Cape Breton fiddling.