Boston to the Isle of Skye in Scotland. Shanghai, in China, to New Zealand. India to Austria, Oregon to Germany to California to Kenya to Texas to Cape Breton: those a but a few of the places Hanneke Cassel has taken the music of her fiddle. Cassel grounds herself in the music of Scotland. Fiery strathspeys and haunting airs both call to her, as does the distinctive music of Scotland’s sons and daughters who came to Atlantic Canada, to Cape Breton. Her playing and her composing draws from the deep wells of these traditions, and there are flavors of other
