Playing the Cape Breton fiddle | Natalie MacMaster

翻译人员: Yi Shao 校对人员: Dennis Guo

Natalie MacMaster: I'm going to just

Natalie MacMaster:下面我先为大家

quickly start out with

献上一段

a little bit of music here. (Applause)

简短的演奏。（掌声）

(Music)

（音乐）

(Applause)

（掌声）

Thank you! (Applause)

谢谢！（掌声）

I took my shoes off to dance,

为了跳舞我把鞋脱了，

but maybe I'll get at that later.

我等一会儿再穿吧。

Anyways, I... where to start?

然后，我……从哪儿开始说呢？

Well, I'm really excited

我很高兴今天

to talk a bit about

能向大家介绍

my own upbringing in music

我的音乐之路

and family and all of that,

和我的家庭，

but I'm even more excited for you people

不过更令我激动的是

to hear about Donnell's amazing family

Donnell今天也有机会向你们介绍

and maybe even a little bit about

他了不起的家庭以及

how we met,

我们相遇的故事，

and all that sort of thing,

我要说的大概就是这些，

but for those of you that may not

现场有些观众可能不是很了解

be familiar with my upbringing,

我的出身。

I'm from Cape Breton Island,

我来自位于加拿大东部新斯科舍省

Nova Scotia, eastern Canada,

的布雷顿角岛，

which is a very, very musical island,

岛上的音乐气氛非常浓厚，

and its origins come from Scotland

岛上的人、音乐以及所有的传统

with the music and all the traditions,

舞蹈、语言

the dancing, the language,

都是苏格兰裔，

which unfortunately is dying out

不幸的是布雷顿角的这一切

in Cape Breton.

现在都在逐渐消亡。

The traditional language is Gaelic,

布雷顿角的传统语言是盖尔语（Gaelic），

but a lot of the music came

很多音乐都来自于

from the Gaelic language,

这种语言，

and the dancing and the singing

舞蹈、歌曲等等

and everything, and my bloodline

也是如此，我的血统是

is Scottish through and through,

彻彻底底的苏格兰裔，

but my mother and father

我的母亲和父亲

are two very, very musical people.

都非常热爱音乐。

My mom taught me to dance

我五岁的时候

when I was five, and my dad

我妈妈教我跳舞，九岁的时候

taught me to play fiddle when I was nine.

我爸爸教我拉小提琴。

My uncle is a very well-known

我的叔叔是一位非常著名的

Cape Breton fiddler.

布雷顿角小提琴演奏家。

His name's Buddy MacMaster,

他叫做Buddy MacMaster，

and just a wonderful guy,

是一个了不起的人物，

and we have a great tradition at home

我们家里有跳方块舞（square dancing）

called square dancing,

的优良传统，

and we had parties, great parties

我们也会在家里或者邻居的家里举办

at our house and the neighbors' houses,

派对，非常棒的派对，

and you talk about kitchen cèilidhs.

我们常说厨房“凯利”。

Well, cèilidh first of all is Gaelic for party,

“凯利”在盖尔语中是派对的意思，

but kitchen party

厨房派对

in Cape Breton is very common,

在布雷顿角非常普遍，

and basically somebody drops into the house,

厨房派对大体是这样的，一个人拜访别人的家

and no matter what house you go to

在布雷顿角，所有人家里

in Cape Breton, there's a fiddle there,

都有小提琴，

guaranteed, and I'd say,

这点我敢保证

well there's first of all more fiddlers

布雷顿角的人均拥有的小提琴数量

per capita in Cape Breton than anywhere

位居世界第一

in the world, so ten chances to one,

因此，前来拜访的人

the fellow who walked in the door

十有八九

could play it, so you'd have someone come

会拉小提琴，所以我们邀请

into the house, you'd invite them to play

前来的拜访的客人

a tune, and lo and behold

拉一首曲子，然后

a little party would start up and somebody would dance,

一个小型派对就开始了，有人跳舞

and somebody would sing, and all that sort of thing,

有人唱歌，大家一起享受音乐，

so it was a wonderful, wonderful way

这是非常棒

to grow up, and that is where

的成长经历，也是

my beginnings in music come from:

我的音乐生涯的开始：

my surroundings, my family,

我成长的环境，我的家庭，

just my bloodline in itself, and, oh,

我的血统，

I've done lots of things with my music.

我做了很多与音乐有关的事情。

I've recorded lots of CDs.

我录制了很多唱片。

I was nominated for a Grammy and

得到过一个格莱美奖提名

I've won some awards and stuff like that,

以及获得过一些奖项。

so that's awesome,

这些经历都非常棒，

but the best part was meeting my husband,

然而其中最棒的还要数与我的丈夫相遇，

and I've actually known Donnell

实际上我和Donnell认识

for probably 12 years now, and

已经十二年了，

I'm going to get into a little bit of, I guess,

我想，我会简要的介绍一下，

how music brought us together,

音乐如何让我们走到一起，

but I'm going to introduce you

不过现在我先要向大家介绍

right now to my new husband

我的新婚丈夫

as of October 5,

十月五号刚刚转正的，

Donnell Leahy. (Applause)

Donnell Leahy。（掌声）

(Applause)

（掌声）

Donnell Leahy: Thank you. I'm kind of new to the TED

Donnell Leahy：谢谢。我对TED还不是很熟悉

experience and I'm glad to be here,

我很高兴来到这里，

but I'm just trying to put it all together,

我正在努力搞懂这一切，

trying to figure all you people out, and I've

弄清你们都是些什么人物

been here for a short while, and I'm starting

在这里呆了一会儿之后

to understand a little bit better.

我已经不觉得那么陌生了。

So I asked Natalie, what do I do?

我问Natalie，我上台要干什么呢？

And she said, just talk about yourself.

她叫我介绍一下自己。

It's kind of boring, but I'll just tell you a little

这可能会有点无聊，不过我就介绍一下吧

bit about my family. I'm one of 11 brothers

说一说我的家庭。我来自多伦多西北，安大略省莱克菲尔德（Lakefield）

and sisters from Lakefield, Ontario,

距多伦多一个半小时车程，

an hour and a half northeast of Toronto,

我有十个兄弟姐妹

and we grew up on a farm.

我们在农场长大。

Mom and Dad raised beef cattle,

我的父亲和母亲养肉牛，

and I'm the oldest boy.

我是家中最大的男孩。

There are four girls a little bit older than me.

我有四个比我稍微大一点的姐姐。

We grew up without a television.

我小时候家里没有电视。

People find that strange,

很多人觉得奇怪，

but I think it was a great blessing for us.

但我觉得这是我们的福气。

We had a television for a few years,

我们曾经有过电视，

but of course we wasted so much time

并因此浪费了很多时间

and the work wasn't getting done,

工作都完成不了，

so out went the television.

所以电视就被扫地出门了。

We grew up playing—

我们从小就——

Mom's from Cape Breton, coincidentally.

我的妈妈恰巧也来自布雷顿角。

Mom and Natalie's mother

她认识Natalie的妈妈。

knew each other. We grew up playing,

我们从小就演奏音乐

and used to dance together, right, yeah.

还曾经一起跳舞，恩，是的。

(Laughter) We grew up playing a bunch of,

（笑声）我们从小就演奏乐器，

we played by ear and I think

即兴演奏，我认为

that's important for us because

这对于我们来说非常重要

we were not really exposed to a lot of

因为我们没有接触过多的

different styles of music.

其它风格的音乐。

We learned to play the instruments,

我们学习演奏乐器，

but we kind of had to come from within

但我们的音乐都来自内心

or go from within, because we didn't

生发自内心，因为

watch television, we didn't listen to a lot of

我们不看电视，我们不怎么听广播

radio. We went to church

我们上学

and to school sometimes,

有时候去教堂，

and farmed and played music,

干农活、演奏音乐，

so we were able, I think,

我想因此我们才能在

at a very critical age to develop

关键的年纪

our own style, our own self,

发展出我们自己的风格，找到真正的自我，

and my mother plays, my father plays,

我的父亲母亲都会演奏乐器

and the style that came

他们的风格来自

from the Ottawa Valley in Ontario,

安大略的渥太华谷，

we call it French-Canadian style

叫做法式加拿大风格

but it originated in logging camps.

这种风格最早起源于伐木场。

Years ago, hundreds of men would go

多年以前，成百上千的人

up for the winter to the camps

冬天会去

in Northern Ontario and in Quebec,

魁北克和北安大略的伐木场，

and they were all different cultures,

他们都来自不同的文化，

and the Irish, the French, Scottish,

爱尔兰人、法国人、苏格兰人、

German, they'd all meet, and of course

德国人，他们在那里相遇，晚上

at night, they'd play cards

当然就打牌

and step dance and play fiddles,

跳踢踏舞、拉小提琴

and over the course of many years,

所以随着时间的推移

the Ottawa Valley fiddling kind of evolved

渥太华谷的小提琴演奏在不断进化

and the Ottawa Valley step dancing

渥太华谷的踢踏舞也在不断进化

evolved, so that's, I kind of started out

我最早的风格

with that style and I quickly

就来源于此，不过我很快就开创了

started doing my own thing,

我自己的风格，

and then I met Natalie, and I was

后来我遇见了Natalie，随之

exposed to the great Cape Breton fiddling.

接触到了伟大的布雷顿角小提琴风格。

That's how we met. (Laughter)

我们就是这样相遇的。

You tell them. (Laughter)

你跟他们说吧。（笑声）

NM: You want to or no? (Laughter)

NM：你到底想不想说？（笑声）

Well I guess I have to now.

这样一来，我就不得不说了。

Well, it's just so interesting that

Donnell的出身和我非常相似

Donnell's upbringing was very similar

这十分有趣

to mine, and I actually saw Donnell play

事实上，我第一次看到Donnell演奏

when I was about 12 years old,

的时候是12岁

and he and his family came to

他和他的家人来

Inverness, which is about 45 minutes

因佛内斯（Inverness），距离我家

from where I lived, and I was just

大约四十五分钟，我被他

blown away, like, it was just amazing,

的演奏震撼了，实在太精彩了，

and you'll find out why pretty soon here,

你们等下看过他的表演之后就明白我的意思了，

but I couldn't believe the fiddling

他演奏小提琴简直让人不敢相信

and Mom was there with me,

我的妈妈当时也在那里

and she was saying —

她说——

Donnell's mother came up on stage

Donnel的妈妈当时也在舞台上

and danced with her children, and Mom

和她的孩子们一起跳舞

was saying, "That's Julie MacDonnell,

我的妈妈告诉我，“那是Julie MacDonnell，

I used to dance with her when we

我们小时候

were kids. Little did I think our children

曾经一起跳舞，我真没想到

would be playing instruments, you know,

我们的孩子都会演奏乐器，

playing music, yeah."

演奏音乐。”

Twelve years, er, 20 years later little did she think

她肯定也没想到十二年，不对，二十年之后

her kids would be getting married,

她们的孩子会结婚，

but anyway, so, then I got

反正，这件事发生，大概，

a phone call about, I dunno,

七年之后，我接到一个电话。

seven years later. I was 19,

那时我十九岁，

first or second year of college,

刚刚大学一二年级，

and it was Donnell, and

是Dennell打来的，

he said "Hi, you probably don't know me

他说“你好， 你可能不认识我

but my name is Donnell Leahy."

我叫Donnell Leahy。”

And I said, "I know you.

我说：“我认识你。

I have a tape of yours at home."

我家还有一盘你的带子。”

And he said, "Well, I'm in Truro,"

他说，“恩，我现在特鲁罗，”

which is where I was,

我当时也在特鲁罗，

and he asked me out for supper.

然后他就邀请我吃晚餐。

That's it. (Laughter)

就是这样。（笑声）

(Applause)

（掌声）

Then — Will I keep going? (Laughs)

然而——我还要继续说吗？（笑）

(Laughter)

（笑声）

Then we dated for two years,

然后我们约会了两年，

broke up for 10, got back together

分开十年，再复合

and got married. (Laughter) (Applause)

然后就结婚了。（笑声）（掌声）

DL: So anyway, we're running out of time,

DL：我们时间不多了

so I'll just get to it.

所以我就直接开始了。

I'm going to play a piece of music for you.

我将要为演奏一首乐曲。

It's actually a Scottish piece I've chosen.

我选择的是一首苏格兰乐曲。

I starts out with a slow air.

开头比较舒缓。

Airs were played in Europe

在欧洲，人们经常在葬礼上演奏这种音乐

at burials, as a body was carried out

当灵柩从守夜的地方呗抬到

from the wake site to the burial site,

埋葬的地方时

the procession was led by a piper

风笛手或者小提琴手

or a fiddle player.

会引领前进的队列。

I'll quickly play a short part of the air,

我会很快的演奏这首乐曲的一部分，

and then I'm going to get into

然后我就会拉一段

kind of a crazy tune that is very difficult

疯狂的旋律，在没有热身的情况下

to play when you're not warmed up,

这一段非常难拉，

so, if I mess it up, pretend you like it

因此，如果我出错了，假装你们喜欢就好了。

anyway. It's called The Banks.

曲子的名字叫做The Banks。

(Tuning)

（调音）

(Laughter)

（笑声）

(Music)

（音乐）

(Applause)

（掌声）

NM: Well, we're gonna play one

NM：那么我们再一起演奏

together now. (Applause)

一曲吧。（掌声）

We're laughing, like, because

我们笑是因为

our styles are totally different,

我们的风格完全不同，

as you can hear.

你们听过了一定也发现了。

And so, you know, Donnell and I

Donnell和我

are actually in the process of

其实正在尝试

writing new pieces of music together

创作我们可以一起演奏

that we can play,

的音乐，

but we don't have any of those ready.

但是我们还没有成功写出任何作品。

We just started yesterday. (Laughter)

我们昨天才开始。（笑声）

So we're gonna play something together anyway.

但是我们还是要一起演奏一曲。

DL: With one minute.

DL：用最后一分钟时间。

NM: With one minute.

NM：最后一分钟。

(Audience reaction)

（观众的反应）

DL: You start. NM: No, you have to start,

DL：你开始。NM：不行，必须从你开始，

because you've got to do your thing.

你拉你的。

(Music)

（音乐）

NM: I'm not tuned. Hold on.

NM：我没有调音。等下。

(Tuning)

（调音）

NM: I feel like I'm in the duck or

NM：我觉得我现在动作

the bird pose right now. (Laughter)

像鸭子或者鸟。（笑声）

(Music)

（音乐）

(Audience claps along)

（观众跟着音乐拍手）

(Applause)

（掌声）

Announcer: Great news,

主持人：好消息，

they're running late downstairs.

楼下的人延误了。

We've got another 10 minutes.

所以我们还有十分钟。

(Applause)

（掌声）

NM: Okay. Sure.

NM：好的。没问题。

All right, okay.

好的，好的。

Let's get her going. (Applause)

那我们就继续吧。（掌声）

(Tuning)

（调音）

DL: What do you want to play?

DL：你想拉什么?

NM: Well, um...

NM：那，恩……

(Music) (Laughter)

（音乐）（笑声）

NM: Uh, sure.

NM：没问题。

DL: How fast?

DL：多快？

NM: Not too fast.

NM：别太快。

(Music)

（音乐）

(Audience claps along)

（观众跟着音乐拍手）

(Cheering)

（欢呼）

(Audience claps along)

（观众跟着音乐拍手）

(Music)

（音乐）

(Applause)

（掌声）

DL: We're going to play a tune

DL：下面这首乐曲

and Natalie's going to accompany me on the piano.

Natalie会弹钢琴配合我。

The Cape Breton piano playing

布雷顿角钢琴演奏

is just awesome. It's very rhythmic

非常棒。节奏感很强

and, you'll see it.

你们很快就会体验到。

My mom plays piano, and she learned

我妈妈会弹钢琴，

to play before they had a piano at home

当时她在布雷顿角的家里还没有钢琴

in Cape Breton. Before Mom's family had

她就已经学会怎么弹了。

a piano in Cape Breton, she learned to play

没有钢琴的时候，她用一块板子

the rhythms on a piece of board,

学习节奏，

and the fiddlers would all congregate

很多小提琴手冬天寒冷的晚上

to play on the cold winter's evenings

都会聚在一起演奏

and Mom would be banging on this board,

我妈妈就会在板子上敲打，

so when they bought a piano,

后来他们在多伦多

they bought it in Toronto and had it taken

买了一架真的钢琴，

by train and brought in on a horse,

然而先用火车再用马拉雪橇

a horse and sleigh to the house.

运回家。

It became the only piano in the region,

这是当时当地唯一的一台钢琴，

and Mom said she could basically play

我妈妈说钢琴一来

as soon as the piano arrived,

她就已经会弹了，

she could play it because she had learned

因为她已经学会了

all these rhythms. Anyway, we found

所有的节奏。我们去年

the piano last year and were able to

找到了这架钢琴，而且

bring it back home. We purchased it.

把它运回家了。我们再一次买下了它。

It had gone through, like,

它几经易主，

five or six families,

换了五六个主人，

and it was just a big thing for us,

这对于我们来说是一件大事，

and we found actually an old picture

事实上我们还发现一张其它家庭的

of somebody and their family years ago.

老照片。

Anyway, I'm blabbering on here.

我有点太唠叨了。

NM: No, I want you to tell them about Leahy.

NM：没有，你跟他们说说Leahy乐队吧。

DL: What about Leahy? (Laughter)

DL:Leahy怎么了？（笑声）

NM: Just tell them what—

NM：跟他们说就是了——

DL: She wants me to talk about—

DL：她希望我说说——

We have a band named Leahy.

我们有一支名叫Leahy的乐队。

There's 11 siblings. We, um—

由我家的十一个兄弟姐妹组成。我们，恩——

What will I tell them? (Laughter)

我跟他们说什么（笑声）

We opened—

我们为——

NM: No surgeries.

NM:没有手术。

DL: No surgeries, oh yeah.

DL：没有手术，是的。

We had a great opportunity.

我们得到了一个很好的机会。

We opened for Shania Twain for two years on her international tour.

我们担任Shania Twain（著名加拿大乡村歌手）国际巡演的开场乐队有两年时间。

It was a big thing for us, and now

我们觉得非常荣幸和幸运，现在

all my sisters are off having babies

我的姐妹们都离开乐队生孩子去了

and the boys are all getting married, so we're

兄弟们则都在忙着结婚，所以

staying close to home for, I guess,

我们可能会在家多呆

another couple of weeks.

几个星期。

What can I say? I don't know what to say,

我还要说什么？我不知道说什么了，

Natalie. We, uh... (Laughter)

Natalie。我们，恩……（笑声）

(Laughter)

（笑声）

NM: Is this what marriage is about?

NM：这难道就是婚姻的真谛吗？

(Applause)

（掌声）

I like it. (Applause)

我喜欢这种感觉。（掌声）

(Laughter)

（笑声）

DL: Oh yeah, okay,

DL：好，好。

in my family we had seven girls, four boys,

我家有七个女孩，四个男孩，

we had two fiddles and one piano,

我们有两把小提亲和一架钢琴，

and of course we were all fighting to play

我们都争着弹奏这些乐器

on the instruments, so dad and mom

所以爸爸和妈妈

set a rule that you couldn't kick anyone

制定了一条规则：不许打断别人的

off the instrument. You had to wait

演奏。别人演奏完才轮到你。

until they were finished, so of course,

结果，因为不想被兄弟姐妹

what we would do is we'd get on the piano

抢去弹琴的机会，

and you wouldn't even get off to eat,

我们只要坐在钢琴面前

because you wouldn't want to give it up

就会废寝忘食的

to your brother or sister, and they'd wait

一直演奏下去。别人就要

and wait and wait, and it'd be midnight

一直等一直等，等到午夜

and you'd be still sitting there on the piano,

前一个人可能还坐在钢琴前，

but it was their way to get us to practice.

我爸爸妈妈就是这样督促我们练琴的。

Will we play a tune?

我们来一曲吧？

NM: It worked. DL: It worked.

NM：可以的。DL：好的。

Sorry, I hate to carry on...

不好意思，我也不想再继续说了……

So this is our last number, and we'll feature Nat on piano.

这是我们的最后一曲，Nat会演奏钢琴

Okay, play in, how about A?

好的，什么调，A怎么样？

(Music)

（音乐）

(Applause)

（掌声）