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photos by laura crosta. cover by stacy vereen.
born: December 6, 1978; Owatonna MN
current residence: Nashville TN
BIO: see Bio Page
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| INSTRUMENTS: Acoustic 5-string Fiddle Electric 5-string Fiddle Electric 5-string Mandocaster |
ENDORSEMENTS: NS Design Electric Violins D'Addario Bowed Strings |
EDUCATION: Graduate of Berklee College of Music Bachelors in Music Production & Engineering Summa Cum Laude Scholarship Student |
INSTRUCTOR: Mark O'Connor's Fiddle Camp; 5yrs Augusta Heritage Camp, Bluegrass Week; 1yr Haapavesi Folk Music Camp, FINLAND; 1yr International Fiddle School Workshop @ Blair School of Music; 1yr Homespun: String Groove DVD Rockygrass Academy; 1yr Bluegrass College.org Sore Fingers Summer School; 1yr Wintergrass Academy; 1yr Private Instruction |
SOLO RECORDING:
3D
Released May 9, 2006
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from Harp, Relix, No Depression, Music Row, Boston Herald, Vintage Guitar, New York Times, Nashville Rage
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RECORD LABEL:
Sugar Hill Records
Casey's Sugar Hill Publicity Page
BOOKING AGENT:
Mongrel Music
Fairfax, California
415-485-5100
| GIGS: Tim O'Brien, Steve Earle & the Bluegrass Dukes, Darrell Scott, John Mayer, Nickel Creek, Bela Fleck, Bryan Sutton, Wisechild, Chris Jones & the Nightdrivers, Lonesome River Band, James Monroe, Rhonda Vincent & the Rage, Dave Evans, Judith Edelman, Alison Brown, Lee Ann Womack, Jim Lauderdale, Donna the Buffalo, Mark Schatz, John Cowan, Leftover Salmon, Blue Merle, Matt Glaser & Wayfaring Strangers, Slavek Hanzlik, Special Consensus, Scott Nygaard, Darol Anger, Yonder Mountain String Band, Justin Thompson, John Doyle, Dave Peterson, Buddy Greene, Tony Trishka, Bethany Dick, David Grier, Dirk Powell, Frank Vignola, Crooked Still, Rob Ickes, Kevin Costner |
RECORDINGS: Steve Earle (Audio CDs & Documentary), Tim O'Brien, Wisechild, John Mayer, Chris Jones, Darrell Scott, Yonder Mountain String Band, Mark Simos, Judith Edelman, Darol Anger, Hanneke Cassel, Dawg Tales, Robbie Fulks, April Verch, Drew Emmitt, Jim Hurst, Justin Thompson, JABE, Clay Cook, Dave Peterson, Bela Fleck, D'Gary, Abigail Washburn, Homespun Instructional Video w/ Darol Anger, Abigail Washburn, John Doyle, Blue Merle, Mark Schatz, Crooked Still, Tyler Grant, Frank Vignola's Gypsy Grass Walk the Line Soundtrack, Fox & the Hound 2 Soundtrack |
UPCOMING RECORDINGS:
Abigail Washburn & the Sparrow Quartet featuring Béla Fleck, Casey Driessen, & Ben Sollee
Jordan Tice
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"Acoustic pickers and fiddlers have taken over the best country instrumental performance category, which includes Casey Driessen's 'Jerusalem Ridge,' a thoroughly unorthodox remake of a fiddle tune from Bill Monroe. Over a choppy strummed beat that's almost funky, multiple fiddles com oand go -- grappling with one another, sharing the tune as a chorale, switching it's beat, even briefly carrying it eastward. It's a tour de force that still holds on to the tune's Celtic Roots." New York Times "...Only once in a long while do you hear a fiddler who delivers music as fresh and innovative as Casey Driessen. He combines killer chops with unique ability to synthesize divergent musical traditions into organically satisfying modern music." Vingage Guitar Magazine "The fiddle has been liberated. Driessen, 26, known here for his stints at Berklee and with Matt Glaser, has come into his own with a genre-busting, fiercely spirited work." Boston Herald "Driessen approaches each selection with energy, wit, sonic inventiveness and especially keen rhythmic sense, resulting in a unique exploration of his instruments possibilities." No Depression "This Berklee grad will pin your ears back, for sure....On the collection, you'll find guests such as Bela Fleck, Jerry Douglas and Darrell Scott. That should give you a notion of what caliber musician you're experiencing here." Music Row "3D is a haunting mix of world flavors that slithers slow across musical boundaries, cruising Egyptian river reeds and Louisiana swamplands, beneath the floorboards of country swing bars, over the Irish Highland....This is tradition finding it's future." Relix "He takes a couple of traditional tunes and Bill Monroe classic and strings 'em together as a fiddle-and-drums duet. And he combines his reinventions of these and other standards with originals that are simply gorgeous." Harp |
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