Wendy MacIsaac
Wendy MacIsaac was born on May 6, 1971 to Donald and Geraldine MacIsaac. She and her three younger brothers grew up in Creignish, Cape Breton. Her mom, who often taught others to dance, started Wendy dancing with a few steps around the age of five. Soon, Wendy was driving tractors and ski doos and dancing in the concerts in Creignish. Wendy was content with this until she had to play her friend's fiddle in a grade 5 Christmas Concert. It was then that she became curious and wanted to play the fiddle. For the next three years, she was a student of Stan Chapman, from Antigonish.
Throughout high school, Wendy was kept busy with her talents; not only with fiddle and dancing but as a solo pianist and accompanyist. She belonged to the group known as the "Special 7" comprised of Wendy, Natalie MacMaster, Ashley MacIsaac, Rodney MacDonald, Jackie Dunn, Stephanie Wills, and the Warner sisters (Melody and Kelly).
After she graduated, Wendy began working on projects of her own, releasing her first CD The Reel Thing in 1994. She has been a member of the Summertime Review and has toured with Breakin' Tradition, Ashley MacIsaac, and is currently touring with Mary Jane Lamond. She has traveled the globe from North America to Italy, and across to Ireland. During all of this touring, Wendy still managed to record her second CD That's What You Get (1996). She has taught at home and has done workshops all over North America in all three disciplines, fiddle, piano, and stepdancing. She has also recorded with Mary Jane Lamond and with the Chieftains in ‘97 and played and appeared in Mary Jane's first video, Stepping Song.
Working along side Mary Jane, Wendy took part in the Lilith Fair tour, opened for the Chieftains on their Canadian tour, opened for Capercaille for their UK tour, performed two years in a row at the Celtic Connections festival in Glasgow (Scotland), and three years in a row at the Irish Arts Foundation festival in San Francisco.
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The "Reel" Thing |
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That's What You Get (Click CD cover for audio clip  ) |
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