Natalie is one of the most sought-after cellists playing traditional music today. Credited with putting cello on the map of contemporary Celtic music, she brings a wealth of world influences to her instrument, fashioning a tone and rhythmic sense that transcend any single tradition - all without losing the influence of classical technique or her American roots. She and her fiddling sister Brittany Haas (Hawktail, Punch Brothers, Crooked Still, the Dave Rawlings Machine) have released two albums and continue to tour together. Natalie and longtime collaborator Alasdair Fraser toured for over 26 years and released eight albums, charting a new course through the string music of Scotland. She also toured for three years in American virtuoso Mark O'Connor's Appalachia Waltz Trio. Natalie is in high demand as a studio musician and has been a guest artist on over 100 albums, including those of Cape Breton fiddler Natalie MacMaster, Irish greats Altan, Solas, and Liz Carroll, and Americana icon Dirk Powell. Through her skills as an educator, Natalie has inspired a whole new generation of young cellists in folk music at fiddle camps and music schools across the globe.
¨Natalie basically wrote the book on the cello's place in Celtic music.¨ - Peter Winter
¨In the hands of Natalie Haas, the cello becomes a truly magical instrument." - Green Man
"You would think they'd been playing together for centuries. While his fiddle dances, her cello throbs darkly or plucks puckishly. Then she opens her cello's throat, joining Fraser in soaring sustains, windswept refrains, and sudden, jazzy explosions. Their sound is as urbane as a Manhattan midnight, and as wild as a Clackmannan winter." - Scott Alarik
¨[Alasdair and Natalie] create a sumptuous orchestral mix through the subtle art of aural implication, an intricately textured sound built upon Haas’s extended cello technique." - Andrew Gilbert