Casey Dienel
Promo shot of Casey Dienel for her album Wind Up Canary.
Background information
Origin	Scituate, Massachusetts
Genre(s)	Pop Indie Pop
Occupation(s)	Singer-songwriter, pianist
Instrument(s)	Piano Vocals Guitar Cello Clarinet Accordion Melodica
Years active	1999 - Present
Label(s)	HUSH Records
Associated acts	Tiger Saw
Website	Official website

Casey Dienel (born March 10, 1985) is an American singer-songwriter and musician based out of Brooklyn, New York on the independent record label HUSH Records. She plays piano primarily, but also plays guitar, cello, clarinet, accordion, melodica, ukulele and a few other instruments. She has an often jazzy vocal and songwriting style and cites Carole King, Joni Mitchell, and Gram Parsons among her early influences on her current performance style.^[1] Scituate is a small seacoast town located in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, on Cape Cod Bay midway between Boston and Plymouth. ... Official language(s) English Capital Boston Largest city Boston Area  Ranked 44th  - Total 10,555 sq mi (27,360 km²)  - Width 183 miles (295 km)  - Length 113 miles (182 km)  - % water 13. ... A music genre is a category (or genre) of pieces of music that share a certain style or basic musical language (van der Merwe 1989, p. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Indie rock is a subgenre of rock music often used to refer to bands that are on small independent record labels or that arent on labels at all. ... A musical instrument is a device constructed or modified with the purpose of making music. ... A grand piano, with the lid up. ... In music a singer or vocalist is a type of musician who sings, i. ... Different kinds of guitars The guitar is a fretted and stringed musical instrument, used in a wide variety of musical styles, and is also widely known as a solo classical instrument. ... A cello The violoncello, almost always abbreviated to cello (the c is pronounced as the ch in cheese), is a stringed instrument and a member of the violin family. ... Two soprano clarinets: a Bâ™­ clarinet (left) and an A clarinet (right, with no mouthpiece). ... A 24-bass piano accordion An accordion is a musical instrument of the handheld bellows-driven free reed aerophone family, sometimes referred to as squeezeboxes. ... A Hohner melodica The melodica is a free-reed instrument similar to the accordion and harmonica. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Hush Records is a Portland, Oregon based record label founded and operated by Chad Crouch of the band Blanket Music. ... Dylan Metrano and Juliet Nelson of Tigersaw Tiger Saw is a Sadcore band from Newburyport, Massachusetts. ... March 10 is the 69th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (70th in leap years). ... 1985 (MCMLXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The term singer-songwriter refers to performers who both write and sing their own material. ... A musician is a person who plays or composes music. ... For other meanings, see Brooklyn (disambiguation). ... Official language(s) English de facto Capital Albany Largest city New York City Area  Ranked 27th  - Total 54,520 sq mi (141,205 km²)  - Width 285 miles (455 km)  - Length 330 miles (530 km)  - % water 13. ... An independent record label is variously described as a record label operating without the funding (or outside the organizations) of the major record labels, and/or a label that subscribes to indie philosophies such as DIY and anti-corporate art. ... Hush Records is a Portland, Oregon based record label founded and operated by Chad Crouch of the band Blanket Music. ... A grand piano, with the lid up. ... Different kinds of guitars The guitar is a fretted and stringed musical instrument, used in a wide variety of musical styles, and is also widely known as a solo classical instrument. ... A cello The violoncello, almost always abbreviated to cello (the c is pronounced as the ch in cheese), is a stringed instrument and a member of the violin family. ... Two soprano clarinets: a Bâ™­ clarinet (left) and an A clarinet (right, with no mouthpiece). ... A 24-bass piano accordion An accordion is a musical instrument of the handheld bellows-driven free reed aerophone family, sometimes referred to as squeezeboxes. ... A Hohner melodica The melodica is a free-reed instrument similar to the accordion and harmonica. ... Ukulele The ukulele (Ê»ukulele in Hawaiian and standard Hawaiian English; pronounced , or the Anglicised ), or uke, is a fretted string instrument which is, in its construction, essentially a smaller, four-stringed version of the guitar. ... Carole King (born February 9, 1942) is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. ... Joni Mitchell, CC (born Roberta Joan Anderson on November 7, 1943) is a Canadian musician and painter. ... Gram Parsons (November 5, 1946 – September 19, 1973) was an American singer, songwriter, guitarist and pianist born Ingram Cecil Connor, III. A solo artist as well as a member of both The Byrds and The Flying Burrito Brothers, he is best known for a series of recordings which anticipate the...

Biography

Early life

Casey lived in a number of small towns in Massachusetts before moving to Boston, including Hudson and Scituate. She first took piano lessons at age 4 and began writing songs at about age 9 and lyrics around age 11. Hudson is a town located in Middlesex County, Massachusetts. ... Scituate is a small seacoast town located in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, on Cape Cod Bay midway between Boston and Plymouth. ...

She attended high school in Scituate, Massachusetts and formed a band a band with a few friends called Helen Keller. Their songs consisted of covers and songs about topics such as Latin and Henry Spodek, but her parents disapproved of the band name and it soon disbanded. It was during this period that she learned to play the guitar, and she cites Black Francis, Johannes Brahms, Marlene Dietrich and Tom Waits among her influences at this time.^[1] High school - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... Scituate is a small seacoast town located in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, on Cape Cod Bay midway between Boston and Plymouth. ... In pop music a cover version is a new rendition of a previously recorded song. ... Latin is an ancient Indo-European language originally spoken in Latium, the region immediately surrounding Rome. ... Different kinds of guitars The guitar is a fretted and stringed musical instrument, used in a wide variety of musical styles, and is also widely known as a solo classical instrument. ... Frank Black, also known as Black Francis (real name Charles Michael Kitridge Thompson IV, born April 6, 1965), is an American musician. ... Johannes Brahms. ... Marlene Dietrich in the 1930s Marlene Dietrich (December 27, 1901 – May 6, 1992) was a German-born actress, entertainer and singer. ... Thomas Alan Waits (born December 7, 1949) is an American singer-songwriter, composer, and actor. ...

University and Tiger Saw

After high school, Casey was accepted as a classical vocalist to the New England Conservatory, so she moved to Boston and enrolled there rather than at Sarah Lawrence College. She was enrolled for two years, switching her major to composition after her first semester upon deciding against a career in opera. She studied under jazz vocalist Dominique Eade and studied composition under Lee Hyla. After two years, Casey began touring and ended up cancelling her composition degree to pursue music as a career. She still plans to return and finish her degree. The Greater Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra performing in Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory of Music. ... Boston is a town and small port c. ... Sarah Lawrence College is a co-educational, four-year liberal arts college in Bronxville and Yonkers, New York, United States. ... Composition can refer to: // Composition in art In the fine arts, compostion may refer to any of the following: Composition (visual arts) Musical composition MIDI composition In literature, oratory, and rhetoric, composition refers, as the etymology of the word quite literally indicates, to the putting (words) together to produce a... The Teatro alla Scala in Milan is one of the worlds most famous opera houses. ... Lee Hyla is an American classical music composer. ...

During her university years, Casey met Jason Anderson, Nat Baldwin, Dylan Metrano, Juliet Nelson, Sam Rosen and others now of the band Tiger Saw. She has since been part of the band's rotating lineup and has contributed to individual recordings by members of the band, as well as receiving contributions from them for her own recorded music. She toured throughout the United States with Tiger Saw in the early summer of 2006.^[2] Representation of a university class, 1350s. ... Jason Anderson is a musician from New Hampshire, USA, that also records as Wolf Colonel. He is currently signed with K Records. ... Sam Rosen, often credited as S. Rosen, lettered many of the Silver Age comic books published by Marvel Comics. ... Dylan Metrano and Juliet Nelson of Tigersaw Tiger Saw is a Sadcore band from Newburyport, Massachusetts. ... Dylan Metrano and Juliet Nelson of Tigersaw Tiger Saw is a Sadcore band from Newburyport, Massachusetts. ...

Wind-Up Canary

In 2005, Casey recorded a number of her songs with some friends without the intent of releasing them. A copy of the CD made its way to Chad Crouch, head of HUSH Records. Chad was impressed and contacted Casey about releasing an album. Casey agreed and HUSH produced the record. She sold the album, Wind-Up Canary, at shows for some time before releasing it for international sale in March 2006.^[3] Hush Records is a Portland, Oregon based record label founded and operated by Chad Crouch of the band Blanket Music. ...

References

1. ^ ^a b Casey Dienel. 2:30 Publicity (2006). Retrieved on August 8, 2006.
2. ^ HUSH: Tours. HUSH Records (2006). Retrieved on August 9, 2006.
3. ^ Casey Dienel - "Wind-up Canary". HUSH Records (2006). Retrieved on August 8, 2006.

External links

• Caseydienel.com: Casey's official website
• Free Songs of Casey Dienel from Daytrotter
• Myspace.com: Casey Dienel's artist page