casey driessen: sunday bazaar w/ special guest craig havighurst

#### Featuring a Special Conversation with Craig Havighurst on *Musicality for Modern Humans* **Casey Driessen** has spent twenty-five years proving that a fiddle can go anywhere. Twenty-two countries on four continents. A year traveling with his family through Spain, Ireland, Scotland, India, Japan, and Finland, recording with local masters in whatever room or field or cabin presented itself, documenting everything. Four solo albums. A one-man live looping show called The Singularity. Four years directing a master's program at Berklee College of Music's campus in Valencia. Collaborations with Béla Fleck, Steve Earle, Jerry Douglas, Abigail Washburn, Steve Martin and Martin Short. A GRAMMY nomination. A standardized notation system for the percussive bowing technique known as chopping, which he helped develop and then gave away for free so fiddlers around the world could share a common language. And always, always, the red shoes. His Sunday Bazaar residency at Little Jumbo is exactly what its name suggests — a market of sound laid out across a single evening, where fiddle loops and global grooves and sonic experiments pile up like goods from distant ports. Driessen builds music in real time using pedals and loops, layering his five-string fiddle into orchestral architecture that can shift from Appalachian melody to Indian raga to Finnish folk tune within the span of a single piece. No two nights sound alike because the whole point is that they shouldn't. This month, the Bazaar expands to include a conversation with **Craig Havighurst**, Nashville-based music journalist, broadcaster, and author of the new book *Musicality for Modern Humans: How to Listen Like an Artist*. Havighurst has spent more than twenty-five years covering the art, commerce, and culture of American music — as a reporter for NPR and the Wall Street Journal, as editorial director of WMOT Roots Radio, as host of the weekly interview show *The String*, and as the author of *Air Castle of the South: WSM and the Making of Music City*. His new book, which Kirkus calls a "warm, wise guide to hearing music — and each other — with renewed clarity," argues that anyone can deepen their relationship with music by learning to listen actively rather than passively, by paying attention to tone, time, and timbre the way a musician does, by resisting the algorithm and rebuilding a musical diet from curiosity rather than habit. It is, in other words, a book about doing exactly what Little Jumbo asks its audience to do every week — walk into a room, follow your ears, and discover something you weren't expecting. Driessen and Havighurst have known each other for years, and their conversation will move between the ideas in the book and the live demonstration of those ideas happening in real time on the Bazaar stage. What does it mean to listen like an artist? What happens when you sit down with musicians you've never met, in places you've never been, and try to find common ground through sound? How do you stay curious in an age designed to flatten your attention?