Tag: Casey Driessen

Protect and recover your stuff with GearTrack

| December 21, 2012 | 0 Comments
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Wouldn’t it be great if you could register all your valuable musical instruments and gear online, with photos, descriptions, serial numbers, and identifying characteristics? In the event of loss, theft or damage, it would make recovery or insurance claims much easier. This is the idea [...]

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40th Annual RockyGrass: Day 2

| July 29, 2012 | 0 Comments
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This report from RockyGrass is a contribution from Jake Schepps and Christian Sedelmyer. Working backwards on Day 2 of the festival: the evening’s closer was a special set of music with a band specifically put together by Béla Fleck, in which he played a superlative set of traditional [...]

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Skills & Techniques videos with Casey Driessen

| August 24, 2011 | 0 Comments

Casey Driessen, he of the wicked fiddle chop, is offering a series of  instructional videos for download from his web site, starting in September. The five lessons will each deal with one aspect of Casey’s highly distinctive accompaniment style, starting with the most basic percussive [...]

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Telluride – day two

| June 18, 2011 | 0 Comments

Here is the second photo-report from Jason Lombard, on the ground at the Telluride Bluegrass Festival. So everyday at Telluride starts with a sprint from the front gate, to the front of the stage, to stake out your spot for the day. It sounds simple [...]

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Jayme Stone – Room of Wonders

| November 2, 2010 | 0 Comments

Award-winning Canadian banjoist Jayme Stone has a new CD, Room of Wonders, which features his take on traditional dance music from all across the globe. He is assisted by Casey Driessen on fiddle, Grant Gordy on guitar and Greg Garrison on bass, who form his [...]

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Free tickets to Casey Driessen shows

| August 10, 2010 | 0 Comments

Anyone want free tickets to see Casey Driessen opening for country/rock sensations the Zac Brown Band? Casey and his power trio are touring this next two weeks with Brown, and is offering two free tickets for each show to folks who will pass out free [...]

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Jayme Stone in the studio

| April 9, 2010 | 0 Comments

Jayme Stone has also been in the studio of late, working on a new album. The award-winning Canadian banjoist tells us that the music is loosely based on folk dances from around the world: Norway, Sweden, Italy, Bulgaria, Brazil, Tunisia and North America. The core [...]

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Casey Driessen fiddle hunt, part 2

| October 26, 2009 | 1 Comment

A lot of folks enjoyed Casey Driessen’s 5-string fiddle hunt video, where he and Luke Bulla traveled to Scottsburg, IN to the shop of John Silakowski. John built Casey’s existing fiddle, and the trip was made so that he could select a new one. The [...]

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Casey Driessen photos from TDYH tour

| October 22, 2009 | 0 Comments

Casey Driessen is not only a fiery fiddler, a fearless improviser and a very talented musician overall. He is also a skilled photographer, with a great eye for a good shot. Casey was tapped to play fiddle on Béla Fleck’s Throw Down Your Heart tour [...]

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Casey Driessen: 5-string fiddle hunt

| September 25, 2009 | 1 Comment

Here’s something any musician can identify with… the hunt for a new axe. Casey Driessen takes us along as he and Luke Bulla journey to Scottsburg, IN and the shop of noted violinmaker John Silakowski to check out some new 5-string fiddles. Watch and listen [...]

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