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Brittany Haas

Brittany Caroline Haas (born 1987) is an American fiddle player, who also sings and plays the banjo. She is a member of the Boston-based alternative bluegrass band Crooked Still, which is currently on hiatus. She is a regular performer on Live From Here.[2] She tours with the Haas Marshall Walsh and Haas Kowert Tice trios, and participates in many international fiddlecamps, including the Ossipee Valley Music Festival. As of 2018, she is a member of Hawktail, which includes Kowert and Tice, as well as mandolinist Dominick Leslie. In June 2023 she was announced as the new fiddle player for Americana band Punch Brothers, replacing founding member Gabe Witcher. Her sister Natalie Haas plays cello with a similarly diverse group of musicians.

Brittany Haas

Brittany Caroline Haas[1]

1987

Menlo Park, California, United States

Early life[edit]

Haas grew up in Menlo Park, California. When she was eight years old, her violin teacher gave her some bluegrass sheet music to practice sight reading. For the next five years she took both classical violin and bluegrass fiddle lessons. When she heard Bruce Molsky, she recalls: "I was like, 'That's what I want to do.'". At 13 years of age, she switched to the fiddle as her primary instrument.[3]

In 2001, when Haas was 14, she toured with 's Republic of Strings.

Darol Anger

In 2004, she released her debut, self-titled solo album (produced by Anger on Ook). It included guest musicians , Darol Anger, Todd Sickafoose, Mike Marshall, and her sister, cellist Natalie Haas.

Bruce Molsky

2005-2009 while at Princeton joined the “chamber grass” band ,[4] with whom she has made four recordings and toured the world.

Crooked Still

Haas graduated from in 2009 with a degree in Evolutionary Biology and a minor in Music Performance. She was a member of the Princeton University Band.[3]

Princeton University

Haas, (mandolin), Alison Brown (banjo), Todd Phillips (bass), Andy Hall (Dobro), Matt Wingate (guitar) were members of the Porchlight Band, the house band for the bluegrass documentary Porchlight Sessions (cira 2011).[5]

Sierra Hull

In 2015 she and Lauren Rioux recorded a video together on the Roots Channel and often join other groups.

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Haas went on tour as part of the band , in support of their album Nashville Obsolete. Haas appeared on multiple tracks as a guest performer. The tour started in November 2015 and continued through April 2016.[7]

Dave Rawlings Machine

From 2003 - current, Haas performs with the Haas Kowert Tice trio, with on bass and Jordan Tice on guitar. The group was renamed Hawktail with the addition of Dominick Leslie on mandolin.

Paul Kowert

Haas appeared on the ' Band Acony Records release Poor David's Almanack.

David Rawlings

In 2020, she won the Instrumentalist of the Year award at the .

Americana Music Honors & Awards

in 2021, she was selected as Artist in Residence at East Tennessee State University.

In 2023, she was selected to be the new fiddle player in the Punch Brothers.

Brittany Haas (2004)

Official website

Porchlight Sessions

Nashvillescene.com

Mainstreettakoma.org

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