With a career spanning nearly twenty years, Katie McNally is one of the preeminent fiddlers in the northeastern United States. Her fiddling is influenced by a deep appreciation of Cape Breton music as well as the sounds of home in New England; it ties together the musical threads of the Atlantic coast and is “fine, precise….a joy to listen to: smooth, fluid and with an unfussy agility to it, though never lacking in character." (The Strad) 

Equally at home on the concert stage or in the dance hall, McNally tours regularly with the groundbreaking Pine Tree Flyers and has appeared at Celtic Connections, Celtic Colours, Newport Folk Festival, and The Festival of American Fiddle Tunes, as well as countless folk venues throughout North America and Europe. She was a 2025 Shannon Artist in Residence at Beinn Mhàbu in Mabou, Nova Scotia and is the Artistic Director of Boston States Fiddle Camp at Potash Hill in Marlboro, Vermont.

Over the years, McNally has been part of projects such as Childsplay, Fàrsan, her duo with guitarist Eric McDonald, Long Time Courting, and she is a prolific composer, producer, and arranger.

She makes her home in Portland, Maine and plays fiddles made by Bob Childs and Ewen Thomson.