The Chiddle Fix

Chiddle Fix is a newly formed traditional Celtic band featuring fiddlers Hanneke Cassel, Laura Cortese, and Lissa Schneckenburger. Chiddle Fix have been featured performers at the 2000 Boston Marathon, and Berklee College of Music.

Hanneke Cassel's fluid and graceful fiddle style has brought her honors as the winner of the 1997 US National Scottish Fiddle Champion, as well as the '92 and '94 National Scottish Junior Champion. Ms. Cassel performs regularly around Boston and has performed across the US, Cape Breton, and Scotland with the likes of Alasdair Fraser, Matt Glaser, and Buddy MacMaster. She teaches regularly at Fraser's Valley of the Moon Scottish Fiddle Camp, and is also featured on Darol Anger's "Diary of a Fiddler" album.

Fiddler Laura Cortese placed in the US National Scottish Competition in 1998, as well as the Marin County Fiddle Contest in California in 1996. She was featured on tour with the San Francisco Scottish Fiddle Club and Alasdair Fraser in California and Alaska. She has studied with Mr. Fraser, as well as Martin Hayes, Buddy McMaster, Catriona McDonald, Jerry Holland, and Carl MacKenzie. Ms. Cortese has also gained acclaim as a step dancer. During an apprenticeship with the dance company Footworks, she was featured in performance at the Mission Folk Festival in British Columbia. She has also choreographed modern dance performances at the University of California at Santa Cruz, and studied step dancing with Harvey Beaton, Mary Janet MacDonald, and Eileen Carson.

Lissa Schneckenburger made her professional debut recording The Mad Hatter on the Outer Green Label in 1997. Drawn from Ms. Schneckenburger's study of Irish, Scottish, French Canadian, and contra dance fiddle styles, the CD also includes many compositions of her own. The Mad Hatter has been aired on National Public Radio's international Celtic show, Thistle & Shamrock, and has been reviewed in every major folk publication in the United States as well as several in Europe. Ms. Schneckenburger has been featured in countless radio and television broadcasts, including a solo on National Public Television's "A Taste of Chanukah" filmed in New England Conservatory's Jordan Hall, a live performance on WBZ Boston, and annual features on Maine Public Radio's Live at 11.

Chiddle Fix also includes Flynn Cohen on guitar. They play a mix of Celtic traditional songs and dance tunes with contemporary arrangements.

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