![]() ![]() Their synergy was brilliantly showcased on the pair’s first recorded collaboration, 2015’s Bob Ezrin-produced album One, a crowning achievement complementing combined album sales of over one million, a CV listing cellist Yo-Yo Ma, bluegrass star Alison Krauss, and banjo ace Béla Fleck as past collaborators (and Shania Twain and The Chieftains as fans) plus a devoted audience stretching from Sydney, Nova Scotia to Sydney, Australia. It’s unexpected and awesome.” Though MacMaster and Leahy followed different trajectories to this point - she a Cape Breton native who could step-dance before she could walk, he the oldest brother of the acclaimed family group Leahy - both have confidently crested the traditional music peak. “It has carried me through my childhood, through my teens, my young adult life, my married life and now motherhood. “I’m continually amazed by what the fiddle has brought to my life,” MacMaster offers. While both were already stars in their own light, propelling their dazzling careers since childhood, the award-winning fiddle virtuosos have cemented their status as Canada’s reigning couple of Celtic music. To fans of fiddle music, Natalie MacMaster and Donnell Leahy need no introduction. in the Mainstage Theatre, located at the Center for the Arts, North Campus. Hazel’s service arrangements and supervision are entrusted to her friend and Family Funeral Director, Don Applegate, of the Applegate-Day & Enea Family Funeral Home’s original location, at 102 West St., Ilion, NY (31).The University at Buffalo Center for the Arts will present “ Natalie MacMaster and Donnell Leahy” on Tuesday, Feb. Elizabeth Medical Center and the Abraham House, for their compassion and excellent care given to Hazel.Īnyone wishing to share a memory of Hazel, or add to her online memorial, may go to In lieu of flowers, as an expression of sympathy, memorial contributions may be made to the Abraham House, 1203 Kemble St., Utica, NY 13501, or the Herkimer County Humane Society, 514 State Route 5s, Mohawk, NY 13407. The family wishes to thank the nursing staffs at St. Surviving family members include her husband, Ernest “Ernie” Savage her children, Heather MacKenzie, of Ilion, Scott MacKenzie and his wife, Tina, of Herkimer and Edward MacKenzie II, of Ilion stepchildren, Michael (Cindy) Savage, Cynthia (Brian) Nicodemus, Pamela (Jeff) Brownrigg and Sandra Barnett her sister, Margaret Jay, of Alliston Ontario Canada her brother, Laughlin and his wife, Phyllis, of Toronto Canada 4 grandchildren, Bill Trevor, Lindsay Desroches and Matthew and Peter MacKenzie several great-grandchildren and step-grandchildren and nieces, nephews and cousins.Ī Celebration of Life and Committal Service will be held 2:00 p.m., Friday, July 1, 2022, at the Millers Mills Cemetery, 647 Millers Mills Rd., West Winfield, NY. She will be missed tremendously and leaves a void in our life but are grateful she is in a better place. Mom had a special place in her heart for animals and had many pets and was always smiling. She also liked gardening, doing yardwork, bowling, playing Bridge and tending to her flowers with a cold Coors Light. Mom threw some of the greatest Christmas parties on Marshall Ave and enjoyed the Holidays. Hazel was unselfish and devoted, all of her children’s friends called her Mom or Hazel and she loved them all. She loved Natalie MacMaster who she saw numerous times, last seeing her in 2018. She went to many concerts always enjoying the Irish Festival every year. Hazel was very proud of her Scottish heritage and loved Scottish “Down East” fiddle music. She was also a member of the Ilion Presbyterian Church. ![]() Hazel was employed as a store clerk at Wardle’s Drug Store, Ilion and Kinney Drugs, Ilion, for over 30 years, retiring in 2007. Together they enjoyed traveling the country and camping in their RV. Hazel later married Ernest Savage, on October 14, 1994, in Newmarket, Ontario, Canada and they were together for 27 blessed years. She was married to Edward MacKenzie, on November 17, 1951, at the Ilion Presbyterian Church. Hazel was born on August 21, 1928, in North Lake Ainslie, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia to Janet and Peter MacKinnon and was brought up on the family farm. (MacKenzie) Savage, age 93, of Ilion, passed away peacefully, on Wednesday, January 5, 2022, at the Abraham House, Utica, NY. ![]()
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