Category: Archive
February 16, 2011
By Staff Reporter
By Earle Hitchner
"I am going to become weirder than Michael Jackson," Cape Breton fiddler Ashley MacIsaac told Rebecca Mead.
A staff writer for The New Yorker magazine since 1997, Mead wrote a lengthy article, "Sex, Drugs, and Fiddling," in the Dec. 20, 1999 issue on the troubled musician, who’s toured and recorded with the Chieftains. Her article, which I mentioned briefly in a past "Trad Beat" column, engendered a lot of comment, most of it painting MacIsaac as the Keith Moon of Cape Breton music.