Brittany Haas
| Brittany Haas | |
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Haas performing at MerleFest in Wilkes County, North Carolina, in 2011.
Photo by Forrest L. Smith, III. |
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| Background information | |
| Born | 1987 |
| Origin | Nashville, Tennessee, United States |
| Genres | Folk, bluegrass |
| Occupation(s) | Musician |
| Instruments | Fiddle |
| Associated acts | Crooked Still, Natalie Haas, Republic of Strings, Haas Marshall Walsh (trio) |
| Website | www |
Brittany Haas is an American fiddle player, who also sometimes sings and plays the banjo. She is maybe best known as a member of the Boston-based alternative bluegrass band, Crooked Still, which is currently on hiatus. She is a regular performer on A Prairie Home Companion. She tours with the Haas Marshall Walsh and Haas Kowert Tice trios, and participates in many international fiddlecamps.
Haas grew up in Menlo Park California. At the age of eight, 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.
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