Kaitlin Hahn has been playing fiddle since the tender age of 6.

She began her musical journey as a classical violinist, starting to study Celtic fiddle with Ed Paloucek at age 18. Since then, she has become an active session player and has filled in for fiddlers in a few local bands in the Milwaukee area. Kaitlin teaches music throughout southeastern Wisconsin and is on the faculty of Milwaukee's Irish Fest School of Music. She attended the Mark O'Connor Fiddle Camp in Tennessee and took classes in fiddle and piano accompaniment at the Gaelic College of Arts & Crafts in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. She has studied with Liz Carroll, Stan Chapman, Glenn Graham and several others.

Kaitlin is a former member of the Milwaukee band Bantry Bay and now plays with Atlantic Wave. She recently released her debut solo album, Nice to Meet You, in 2004, and Atlantic Wave made its recorded debut with Craic'd in 2006. Also in 2004, she was chosen to travel and perform in Chiba, Japan, as part of a cultural delegation for Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle. On top of all of this, she recently graduated from UW-Milwaukee with a degree in instrumental music education.

Be sure to visit Kaitlin's website!

Reviews by Kaitlin include:

Beolach
Variations

Melody & Derrick Cameron
When There's Music

Johnny Connolly
An Mileoidean Scaoilte, with Charlie Lennon

Karen & Helene
Solen

Oisin McAuley
Far from the Hills of Donegal

Jennifer Roland
For Each New Day

Smithfield Fair
Winds of Time

Young Dubliners
Real World


Ceilidh at the Big Fiddle

Celtic Fest Chicago

Celtic Pub

Danu

Extracurricular activities

Festival Club Highlights

Fiddle Workshop with Buddy MacMaster

Girl Power

Irish Eyes

Irish Fest, Day 1

Irish Fest, Day 2

Irish Fest, Day 3

Irish Fest, Day 4

Natalie MacMaster

Maiomi (A Gathering)

Pipers' Ceilidh '06

Pipers' Ceilidh '07

Songs, Tunes & Stories

The Tune Makers

Unusual Suspects Encore

The World's Biggest Square Dance

The Young & the Restless


Derrick Cameron: spreading tradition

Liz Carroll: fiddles, kids & the Cubs

Danu (Oisin McAuley): doing his best

Natalie MacMaster: fiddler, producer, wife & chef

Joanie Madden: riding the Celtic wave