Thomas Cassell

bluegrass

Thomas Cassell is a bluegrass mandolinist from southwestern Virginia and a founding member of Circus No. 9. He has worked as a sideman with Billy Strings, the Bryan Sutton Band, Jim Lauderdale and Nefesh Mountain. He won the 2021 National Mandolin Championship and was one of two musicians named the International Bluegrass Music Association's Momentum Instrumentalist of the Year in 2020.