"Natalie MacMaster and Donnell Leahy, both fiddlers, supply tidings of comfort and joy to folk-based music on "A Celtic Family Christmas". With the greatest of ease, they marshal their vituosity into Yule exaltations and reveries rich in personality and emotion. Restorations of "God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen" and the like are performed with an imaginative blend of modernity and Celtic tradition. At times, this well-crafted music evokes Fairport Convention and the Bothy Band ... [They] even make the kid-friendly "The Twelve Days Of Christmas" likeable to adults".
