Cass Meurig is one of Wales's foremost crwth and traditional fiddle players and a member of Welsh folk band Pigyn Clust. As well as working as a soloist she plays in duos with guitarist Nial Cain and Swedish/Estonian bowed harp player Sofia Joons and is an experienced teacher of traditional fiddle. She played with Fernhill between 2000 and 2004, featuring on Fernhill's third and fourth albums 'whilia' and 'hynt' and on Pigyn Clust's second and third albums 'Perllan' and 'Enaid'. She also plays violin and viola with Gorwel and Fiona Owen, and appears on their albums 'In Between' and 'Spring Always Comes'. In 2009 Cass Meurig and Nial Cain released a duo album entitled 'Deuawd', including songs, fiddle and crwth music accompanied by guitar. Click here for more details cassnial In January 2004 Cass released her first solo album, entitled ‘crwth’ on the acclaimed Welsh label Fflach: tradd (2004). Guest musicians on the record are Nigel Eaton (hurdygurdy) and Bob Evans (crwth). Produced by Ceri Rhys Matthews. Click here for more details Crwth 2008 concerts: Solo performances at Brighton Early Music Festival, broadcast live on the Early Music Show on Radio 3, and Talharpa 2008, Viljandi, Estonia; duo performances with Nial Cain at Festival Interceltique de Lorient (Brittany), Tenby Folk Festival and Fiddle Festival of Wales (Pembrokeshire).

Previous work as soloist:
2007: the official opening of the medieval church of St Teilo, St Fagans (Cardiff), the National Eisteddfod, Snowdon Fiddle Festival, Celtic Connections (Glasgow).
2005: Rudolstadt Festival (Germany), Saint Chartier festival (France), Swaledale festival (North Yorkshire).
2004: Festival Interceltique de Lorient (Brittany), the Durham Gathering, Viljandi Folk Festival (Estonia). This followed a successful CD launch tour in Wales earlier in the year.
2003: Maramures festival (Romania), Ethno festival (Sweden).

Other international appearances as fiddle and crwth player with Fernhill:
Tokyo (2001), Landerneau festival (Brittany, 2002), Telemark festival (Norway, 2002), Tatihou festival (Normandy, 2002). In 2002 she performed with Esyllt Harker in the storytelling and song show 'Ganthrig Bwt' on the second Rough Guide to Cymru tour.

Cass holds a PhD from the University of Wales, Bangor on the music of the fiddler in eighteenth century Wales. She is an experienced speaker on the subject and gave papers at the North Atlantic Fiddle Convention in Aberdeen (July 2001) and the Centre for Advanced Welsh Music Studies conference in Bangor in 1999 and 2001. 'Alawon John Thomas', Cass's edition of the John Thomas manuscript of fiddle tunes, is available from the National Library of Wales website www.llgc.org.uk. It includes around 450 tunes collected in North-East Wales around the year 1752 and a substantial text taken from Cass's PhD which gives information on the historical and musical context of the manuscript and the history of the tunes.

Publications
Alawon John Thomas: an Edition of the John Thomas Manuscript of Fiddle Music (National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth 2004).
‘Dance in Wales in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries’, Welsh Music History 7 (2007).
‘Composing Traditional Music’ in Cynheiliaid y Gân : Bearers of Song. Essays in honour of Phyllis Kinney and Meredydd Evans ed. S. Harper and W. Thomas (Cardiff, 2007).
‘Fiddle Tunes in Eighteenth-Century Wales’, in Play It Like It Is: Fiddle and Dance Studies from Around the North Atlantic ed. I. Russell and M. A. Alburger (University of Aberdeen, 2006)
‘The Fiddler in Eighteenth-Century Wales’, Welsh Music History 5 (2002).
‘Canu i Gyfeiliant y Ffidil yng Nghymru’r Ddeunawfed Ganrif’, Canu Gwerin 24 (2001).