Vincent Mcdonald Email & Phone Number

Fiddler, Gaelic speaker, stepdancer. Teacher of fiddler. Vincent plays in venues from museums to pubs, churches, dance halls, and the Celtic Colours Festival as a Cape Breton Fiddlers Association member. Vincent has taken lessons from Kyle of the Barra MacNeils, and has been mentored by Cameron Chisholm. Listening to fiddle tunes since a baby at his grandparents’ in Judique, Cape Breton, near Buddy MacMasters, Vincent is a gifted youth keeping Scottish music, dance, and language alive. With traditional Cape Breton tunes, he received the Treasures of Youth Fund from Iona’s Highland Village, the Fr Angus Morris Scholarship, Mary Kaye MacDonald, and Dr Donald Fergusson scholarship. A student in the first ever class of the Beinn Mhàbu, Cape Breton University's Living Cultures program, Vincent studies traditions, folklore, history, language, music, and dance. His repertoire notes square dancing and sometimes performing solo as a step-dancer. Vincent’s also advanced Gaelic speaker, a community group member to advance the culture, and a fiddle teacher to other youth.

• Fiddler

  Self-Employed