Shawn MacDonald

Coming from a very talented musical family, Shawn has been playing the fiddle for more than thirty years and in that time has performed in the United States, England, Channel Islands, Ireland, Scotland and France. A veteran of the Nova Scotia Youth Orchestra, Shawn has been a cast member of popular musical-comedy stage and touring shows the Cape Breton Summertime Revue and 4 Men in a Tub, as well as playing with his family band Scumalash. Currently a member of Cape Breton showband The Privateers, and a regular performer at the Louisbourg Playhouse, Shawn also teaches private fiddle lessons and is Concertmaster of the Cape Breton Orchestra.