I'm able to shift gears from mom to performer to mom pretty quickly.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Before you're a mom you don't know what gear is going to be relevant.
It's difficult to be a mother and maintain a career as a performer - but then it's difficult in any industry.
I'm a mom first, a singer second.
It's impossible to put yourself first when you're a mom.
I'm a mother. Mothers multi-task.
One learns how to change gears within a concert repertoire.
It's so hard to be a mother and to also want to practice your art.
Juggling being a mom and an entertainer is a challenge I face every day.
It's hard either way, at home or on the bus, I think the hardest thing probably for me is going one second from being mom to right out on the stage and having to be that person too. It's hard to switch gears.
When I appear onstage, that's my departure from Momhood - and I transform into Natalie MacMaster: the entertainer, the fiddler, the performer.