Brittany Haas Net Worth, Husband, Children, & Biography

Brittany Haas is a fiddle player from the United States who also sings and plays the banjo. She is a member of Crooked Still, a Boston-based alternative bluegrass band that is currently on a break.

Brittany Haas Net Worth and Salary

Brittany earns a significant amount of income being a widely recognized fiddler. Even so, the details about her salary and revenue have not been disclosed. As per several media reports, the estimates on her net worth are roughly around $1-$5 million USD, while the estimates on her husband’s net value are not known.

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Brittany Haas Bio, Age, Family & Education

Brittany Hass was born in 1987 and currently, she is 36 years old in 2024. Haas was born and raised in Menlo Park, California. During her childhood, she started by taking classical violin and bluegrass fiddle lessons and then turned to the fiddle as her primary instrument when she was 13 years old.

Brittany grew up in Northern California, honing her craft at string camps all over the country and developing her own style of fiddling under the tutelage of her mentors, Bruce Molsky and Darol Rage. Additionally, Haas started touring with Darol Anger’s band “Republic of Strings” when she was only fourteen years old.

As regards her academic credits, she attended Princeton University and obtained a degree in Evolutionary Biology. She also minored in Music Performance during her time at the university. 

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Brittany Haas’ Husband, Wedding, & Children

On a dating app, Brittany Hass and Benjamin Finkle connected. Both of them went to Cornell University, and they also have mutual acquaintances. After Benjamin proposed to Brittany in Hawaii, the couple married in an intimate wedding ceremony in a lovely inn on the shores of Lake George in Upstate New York with the presence of their family and close friends. Besides, there are no reports on her pregnancy as well as her children.

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Professional Career

Brittany Haas is universally acknowledged as one of her generation’s most talented fiddlers. She released an eponymous debut album at the age of seventeen years old. When Brittany was pursuing a degree at Princeton University, she was invited to join the band Crooked Still. Later on, with Crooked Still, she went on to record four albums and toured the world.

Haas has a high demand as a session musician and collaborator. She has collaborated with Steve Martin on several occasions. For instance, she performed with Steve Martin’s bluegrass band on Late Night With David Letterman and Saturday Night Live. Haas was also featured on his Grammy-winning album The Crow: New Songs for the 5-String Banjo. In addition, she has shared the stage with musicians like Bela Fleck, Abigail Washburn, Tony Trischka, and more.

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Brittany currently resides in Nashville, Tennessee, and is working on various projects. Occasionally, Brittany collabs with her cellist sister Natalie Haas, percussive dancer Nic Gareiss, guitarist Yann Falquet, and fiddlers like Alasdair Fraser and Lena Jonsson.

She performs Live sessions on a regular basis. Furthermore, she also performs with the Haas Marshall Walsh and Haas Kowert Tice trios on stage, and she attends several international fiddle camps. She is a member of Hawktail as of 2018. In addition to performing, Haas teaches at string and fiddle camps around the world, passing on her experience and enthusiasm in the hopes of inspiring the next generation of fiddle players.

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