{"id":3126,"date":"2015-05-05T11:55:26","date_gmt":"2015-05-05T15:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nowthissound.com\/ntsib\/?p=3126"},"modified":"2015-05-05T00:00:17","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T04:00:17","slug":"canadian-music-week-cassie-and-maggie-macdonald-sterling-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nowthissound.com\/ntsib\/2015\/05\/05\/canadian-music-week-cassie-and-maggie-macdonald-sterling-road\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Music Week: Cassie and Maggie MacDonald, Sterling Road"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3127\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nowthissound.com\/ntsib\/?attachment_id=3127\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3127\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3127\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nowthissound.com\/ntsib\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/back-cover-photo-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"Cassie and Maggie MacDonald. Photo credit: Haley Anne MacPhee\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3127\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.nowthissound.com\/ntsib\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/back-cover-photo-500x332.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.nowthissound.com\/ntsib\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/back-cover-photo-1024x680.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.nowthissound.com\/ntsib\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/back-cover-photo-226x150.jpg 226w, http:\/\/www.nowthissound.com\/ntsib\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/back-cover-photo-150x100.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.nowthissound.com\/ntsib\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/back-cover-photo-900x598.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3127\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cassie and Maggie MacDonald. Photo credit: Haley Anne MacPhee<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Previously on NTSIB&#8217;s own personal Canadian Music Week: some rock, some punk, some sweet dirty blues, from the rust belt and the praries. Today we&#8217;re jumping out to the Maritimes, to Nova Scotia, and to <a href=\"http:\/\/cassieandmaggie.com\/home\">Cassie and Maggie MacDonald<\/a>, who have an invigorating sound that draws from Scottish, Irish and Cape Breton traditions.<\/p>\n<p>Here are a few tunes from their new record, <i>Sterling Road<\/i>:<\/p>\n<p><i>Jimmie&#8217;s<\/i>, written for an uncle and the family farm, is a charming delight, sweet as sea breeze on a warm summer day:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/158303475&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><i>The Dusty Meadow Variations<\/i>, a glorious piano and fiddle romp:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/158304788&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And finally, their interpretation of <i>Buain A\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Choirce (Reaping the Oats)<\/i>, a Scots Gaelic milling song, which I like because it is both beautiful and gloomy:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/158304364&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Previously on NTSIB&#8217;s own personal Canadian Music Week: some rock, some punk, some sweet dirty blues, from the rust belt and the praries. 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