With a career spanning over two decades, Hanneke Cassel has helped redefine what it means to be a modern fiddler. Fusing musical influences from the Isle of Skye and Cape Breton Island with Americana stylings, she blends originality and innovation with the spirit of Scottish traditional fiddle.
Prepare for a performance described by the Boston Globe as “exuberant and rhythmic, somehow wild and innocent, delivered with captivating melodic clarity and an irresistible playfulness.” Beyond the strings of her fiddle, Hanneke’s generous presence and passion round out her magnetism as a performer on the world stage of fiddle music.
“For more than two decades, she has infused her fiddle music—whether interpreting from Scottish, Cape Breton or other traditions, playing her own material, or covering other contemporary fiddle tunes—with a singular passion as well as technical brilliance, from soulful slow airs to boisterous strathspeys to exuberant reels.” — Boston Irish Reporter
