Rodney MacDonald

Cape Breton

Rodney MacDonald is an accomplished Cape Breton performer who has toured throughout Atlantic Canada. He is the grandson of the great fiddler and composer, Donald Angus Beaton. He began learning stepdancing from his parents at the age of four. He excelled in stepdancing and soon picked up the fiddle. He recorded his own solo recording in 1996 entitled Dancer’s Delight, Traditionally Rockin' in 1997(with his cousin Glenn Graham) and he was also included on the 2004 Smithsonian release The Beaton Family of Mabou: Cape Breton Fiddle and Piano Music. In 1998 he received two nominations for the East Coast Music Awards.