- Casey Driessen
Casey Christopher Driessen (b. Owatonna,
Minnesota ,United States ,December 6 ,1978 ) is an American bluegrassfiddle r and singer. He plays acoustic and electric five-stringviolin s, each of which has an additional low C string.He is a graduate of the
Berklee College of Music , where he studied withMatt Glaser .He has performed with
Béla Fleck ,Abigail Washburn ,Steve Earle , Tim O'Brien,Darrell Scott ,Jim Lauderdale ,Lee Ann Womack ,Mark Schatz , John Doyle, andChris Thile . He has recorded withDarol Anger ,John Mayer ,Jerry Douglas ,Jamey Haddad , andBlue Merle . He has also recorded on the soundtrack for theJohnny Cash film "Walk the Line ".In November 2006 Driessen toured
China andTibet with theSparrow Quartet (which also includesBéla Fleck ,Abigail Washburn , and cellistBen Sollee ). He also has his own band, the Colorfools, which includes Matt Mangano on bass and Tom "Tommy G" Giampietro on drums.He lives in
Nashville, Tennessee . His first solo recording, "3D", was released in May 2006 on Sugar Hill Records. [http://www.caseydriessen.com/3d.html] In 2007, the track "Jerusalem Ridge" received aGrammy Award nomination for Best Country Instrumental Performance. With fiddler Darol Anger andRushad Eggleston , he has released an instructional DVD entitled "Chops & Grooves: Rhythmic Explorations for Bowed Instruments". [http://www.homespuntapes.com/prodpg/prodpg.asp?prodID=1268&]Recently, he contributed to
Crooked Still 's CD "Shaken By A Low Sound" (2006), andTaarka 's "The Martian Picture Soundtrack".He has attended the
Mark O'Connor fiddle camp as a teacher.External links
* [http://www.caseydriessen.com/ Casey Driessen official site]
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