'She was our flower,' friend says of celebrated fiddler

Fleur Mainville, the celebrated fiddler from Pictou, died Wednesday.

She leaves behind her husband, Andrew Heighton, and their two adopted children. Pictou residents also knew her as an active volunteer and fundraiser.

Friend and fellow musician John Spyder MacDonald played with her many times.

"She had a beautiful touch on the fiddle and she was also a fabulous singer," he told the CBC's Information Morning on Thursday.

"She didn't record a lot of her singing because she didn't start singing until after she met her husband. She said he brought the singing out in her."

MacDonald met Mainville when she was 14, when her music teacher contacted him about getting her some playing time. He brought her up to Cape Breton for a St. Andrew's Day event. She played Out On the Myra.

"She sang that with this pure, sweet voice. I knew she was a singer then," he said.

She played with David Gunning and many other musicians. 

"She was one of those that stood out from the rest and you knew, 'This girl's got it.' And she was so humble and a very giving person," MacDonald said. "She probably couldn't count the number of benefits she played at over the years."

Mainville also taught music to children and gave young dancers a stage to perform on.

"It was always about somebody else. It was never about her. That's one of the great things about her and one of the things we're going to miss," said MacDonald.

Mainville and her husband adopted a boy, 10, and a girl, five, in 2014.

"That makes it even harder. It's a devastation, really," MacDonald said. "As her name says, she was our flower. She will be sadly missed by everybody."

Mainville was 37, and died after a long struggle with cancer. 

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