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Casey Driessen

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Casey Christopher Driessen (born December 6, 1978, in Owatonna, Minnesota, United States) is an American fiddler, singer, educator, and recording artist known for his work in bluegrass, Americana, and experimental string music.[1][2] He plays acoustic and electric five-string violins. The five-string violin has an additional low C string not found on the standard violin. He is recognized as a fiddle-singing pioneer.[3]

He is a graduate of the Berklee College of Music[1], where he studied with Matt Glaser, and an alumnus of Homewood-Flossmoor High School in Flossmoor, Ill. He served as the director of the master’s degree program in contemporary performance with production concentration at Berklee's campus in Valencia, Spain, from 2015 to 2019.[4]

He has performed with Béla Fleck, Abigail Washburn, Steve Earle, Tim O'Brien, Darrell Scott, Jim Lauderdale, Lee Ann Womack, Mark Schatz, John Doyle, and Chris Thile. He has recorded with Darol Anger, John Mayer, Jerry Douglas, Jamey Haddad, and Blue Merle. He performed with Dave Matthews Band on May 16, 2026 in Charlotte, North Carolina, and again on June 11, 2026 in Queens, New York.[5] He has also recorded on the soundtrack for the Johnny Cash film Walk the Line. He has toured with The Duhks, replacing Tania Elizabeth.

In November 2006 Driessen toured China and Tibet with the Sparrow Quartet (which also includes Béla Fleck, Abigail Washburn, and cellist Ben Sollee). He also has his own band, the Colorfools, which includes Matt Mangano on bass and Tom "Tommy G" Giampietro on drums.

His first solo recording, 3D, was released in May 2006 on Sugar Hill Records.[6] The track Jerusalem Ridge received a 2007 Grammy Award nomination for Best Country Instrumental Performance.[7] With fiddler Darol Anger and Rushad Eggleston, he has released an instructional DVD entitled Chops & Grooves: Rhythmic Explorations for Bowed Instruments.[8][better source needed]

He contributed to Crooked Still's CD Shaken By A Low Sound (2006), and Taarka's The Martian Picture Soundtrack. He released his second solo recording, "Oog" (2009), on Red Shoes Records.[9]

Discography

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Title Year Role / Notes
3D 2006[10] Solo album; debut release on Sugar Hill Records
Oog 2009[11] Solo album
The S1ngularity 2013[12] Solo looping album; self-recorded and self-produced
Eeva Talsi & Casey Driessen 2016[13] Collaboration with Eeva Talsi
Baaro Saadhanakerige 2020[14] Collaboration project (track on Otherlands)
Otherlands:ONE 2021[15] Album from the *Otherlands: A Global Music Exploration* project

References

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  1. 1 2 "Casey Driessen". Berklee Valencia. Berklee College of Music. Retrieved 2026-06-17.
  2. ↑ "BGS 5+5: Casey Driessen". The Bluegrass Situation. Retrieved 2026-06-17.
  3. ↑ Haigh, Chris. "Fiddle Singing". Fiddling Around the World. Living Tradition Magazine. Retrieved 28 February 2026.
  4. ↑ "Casey Driessen". Berklee Valencia. Berklee College of Music. Retrieved 2026-06-17.
  5. ↑ "Dave Matthews Band Welcome Casey Driessen at Forest Hills Stadium". Relix. Retrieved 2026-06-17.
  6. ↑ Cole, Katherine (5 September 2007). "Casey Driessen Shows Many Styles on Debut Album, '3D'". VOA News. Voice of America. Archived from the original on 16 January 2009. Retrieved 2 January 2009.
  7. ↑ "Casey Driessen". GRAMMY.com. The Recording Academy. Retrieved 2026-06-17.
  8. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20071008050239/http://www.homespuntapes.com/prodpg/prodpg.asp?prodID=1268&
  9. ↑ "Maintenance".
  10. ↑ John Metzger (August 2006). "Casey Driessen - 3D (Album Review)". The Music Box. Retrieved 2026-06-17.
  11. ↑ "Oog". Bandcamp. Retrieved 2026-06-17.
  12. ↑ "The Singularity". caseydriessen. Retrieved 2026-06-17.
  13. ↑ "Eeva Talsi & Casey Driessen". Bandcamp. Retrieved 2026-06-17.
  14. ↑ "Otherlands Liner Notes". caseydriessen. Retrieved 2026-06-17.
  15. ↑ "Otherlands:ONE". Bandcamp. Retrieved 2026-06-17.
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