Cassandra Bangel

If a picture's worth a thousand words, then a song is worth a million. A soulful songwriter and multi-faceted performer, Cassandra Bangel has come into her own through the act of writing, playing, and sharing her music. Born into a musical family in Coquitlam, British Columbia, Bangel was influenced by the sounds of retro rock at an early age before taking her earliest musical steps on classical piano at the age of 7. After adding the guitar to her musical repertoire, her fascination with the dark and brooding flavour of the E minor chord led her to write her first song, "Scream" at the age of 12. As she became equally gifted on piano, guitar, and ukulele, Bangel came to realize that her greatest musical instrument was her voice and played her first public show at a coffee shop inside the Coquitlam Public Library as a teenager. She would later make the leap to local festivals by playing at the 2009 Beanstalk Folk Festival. Under the guidance of producer/performer Bruce Gerrish – the founding director of the Vancouver City Limits concert series – Bangel entered professional recording for the first time in 2010. The resulting EP was Cassandra’s self-titled debut, a fiv... more...