Tiffany has been playing the fiddle since
she was 9-years-old, starting at the suggestion of her best
friend. She started out taking classical lessons, but soon
discovered that classical music was not for her. She then
decided to explore other kinds of fiddle styles including
Bluegrass and Old Time. She even tried Irish music with
a great fiddler from Cape Cod, Billy Hardy. For several
years she explored Celtic fiddle music with her fiddle heroes
Hanneke Cassel and Laura Cortese, both excellent fiddlers
from the Boston area. Since then Tiffany has attended many
fiddle camps including Gaelic Roots, Boston Harbor Fiddle
School, Valley of the Moon Fiddle School in California,
Mark O'Conners Fiddle Camp in Tennessee, and the Berklee
String Fling which is held annually at Berklee College of
Music.
She has also enjoyed playing with The Resonators
(a great string band), Crossfire Bluegrass Band, and 5 A.M.
(a group of 5 teenage fiddlers from the Boston area). She
has also performed at a variety of places including the
Joe Davies Folk Festival, Rochester Grange Fair, Trowbridge
Tavern, Bluegrass on the Bogs, and the Rochester Country
Fair Pig Roast. You can also find her at the annual Fiddlers
and Fisherman held at Common Fence Point Coffee House, Plymouth
Farmer's Market, Marshfield Farmer's Market, and Carver
Farmer's Market.
During the summer Tiffany has great success
traveling all over New England to compete in fiddle contests
including the New England Fiddle Contest, New Hampshire
Highland Games Fiddle Contest, Stark Fiddle Contest, East
Benton Fiddle Contest, New Boston Fiddle Contest, Meetinghouse
Park Fiddle Contest, and Rochester Country Fair Fiddle Contest.
When she is home from college, she teaches fiddle to a number
of students. In December of 2008, Tiffany released her first
album entitled, "It's About Time". Soon after, Tiffany had
the honor of being nominated for Motif Magazine's Celtic
act of the year in the Spring of 2009. On occasion, you
can catch Tiffany at one of the local open mics including
Café Arpeggio which is held every Thursday night in New
Bedford and The Guthrie Center (Arlo Guthrie's church in
Western Massachusetts).