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Darol Anger
To see more about Darol and purchase any of his recordings or videos, check out his regular website, darolanger.com .
Violinist, fiddler, composer, producer and educator, Darol Anger is at home in a number of musical genres, some of which he helped to invent. He is well-known as a founding member of some of the most innovative acoustic groups ever: his Republic Of Strings, Newgrange, the Anger/Marshall Band, the Turtle Island String Quartet, Psychograss, the Montreux Band, and the David Grisman Quintet. Working with some of the world's greatest improvising string musicians; Stephane Grappelli, Mark O'Connor, Bela Fleck, David Grisman, Tony Rice, Michael Manring, Mike Marshall, Michael Hedges, Jerry Douglas, et al., has given Anger a unique perspective on string music, resulting in his inventing and developing innovative string techniques.
In addition to performing all over the world, Darol led string seminars and lecture-demonstrations with Turtle Island at colleges all over the world. He guest instructs at Berklee College of Music and Mark O'Connor's Fiddle Camps, and helped create the String Resouce Board of the International Association of Jazz Educators. He has dozens of recordings, including his newest, Generation Nation, on Compass Records. Darol has written instructional videos and books dealing with many aspects of vernacular string playing.
Darol tours and performs with his groups, The Republic of Strings , Psychograss, and as a special guest with The Anonymous 4 and Yonder Mountain String Band.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 3/13/2006
Band Website: www.DarolAnger.com"DarolAnger.com
Band Members: The Republic of Strings :

Darol - violin ~
Scott Nygaard - guitar ~
Tristan Clarridge - cello ~

With alternating musicians:

Bryn Davies - string bass ~
Jeremy Kittel - fiddle ~
Brittany Haas - fiddle ~
Tashina Clarridge - fiddle ~

Influences: David Dawg, Tony Rice, Aldous Huxley, Paul Desmond, Paul McCandless, Paul & Silas-Bound-In-Jail, Gene Wolfe, Kenneth Rexroth, Jean Luc-Ponty, John Coltrane, Bird, Cannonball, Bud Powell & McCoyTyner, Sammy Bush, Alan Watts, Charlie Watts, James Watt, Bill Snowden, Terrence McKenna, George Stavis, Jaco Pastorius, Michael Hedges & Manring the Manthing, Barbara Higbie, Mike Marshall, Rocky & Bullwinkle, Dr. Strange, Buell Neidlinger, Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker, Jack Bruce, Roy Chapman Andrews, Beezus & Ramona, Rushad & Brittany, Babz&Dwayne, Ry Cooder, Bonnie Raitt, Earl Scruggs, Dr. Billy Taylor, Tom Robbins, Vassar, Byron Richard, StuBob, Matt Glaser, OMAC, Natalies MacMaster & Haas, Andy Statman, Sophie Scott, Faye Hinze, Tom Holzen, Neal Stephenson, The Grier-man's FaceaWhile's Twin, and Scott Nygaard, Garrison Keillor, Willa Rabinovitch, Stephane Grappelli, Stuff Smith, Joe Venuti, Lord Buckley and Zorro.
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Record Label: Compass Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

new stuff

Wow, since i can't do much playing, I've been trying to catch up with Internet housekeeping... so much to do.I spent pretty much a whole day organizing my new YouTube channel:http://www.youtube.com/us...
Posted by Darol Anger on Mon, 03 Nov 2008 03:19:00 PST

wristathon 2

Everyone,Thanks so much for the inspiring and generous good wishes. I'm getting all kinds of good and bad prognoses now from various surgeons and helpful friends, some much worse, some rather better. ...
Posted by Darol Anger on Sat, 20 Sep 2008 01:26:00 PST

wrist update 1

New estimate ands some second opinions on this wrist deal are expected soon... some hopeful signs. turns out the bone may not be broken all the way through, and has not been knocked out of place, so t...
Posted by Darol Anger on Wed, 10 Sep 2008 03:31:00 PST

Broken wrist.

OK... I think I would have preferred to have blown my foot off. They thought it was a sprain and then some real radiologists looked at the x rays, and figured it out the next day. The little bone in m...
Posted by Darol Anger on Wed, 03 Sep 2008 10:58:00 PST

Merlefest puzzle

Here's the letter a lot of us got from our intrepid agent today:"After several attempts to initiate conversationwith Merlefest about booking, I finally got this short and sweet response."We will pass ...
Posted by Darol Anger on Wed, 13 Aug 2008 10:43:00 PST

A music camp in November in Washington

Lots of teaching residencies coming up for me this fall. One of the ones I'm most excited about is the Contemporary String Band Workshop, November 13-16,2008 in Fort Worden State Parkin Port Townsend,...
Posted by Darol Anger on Wed, 06 Aug 2008 11:11:00 PST

top friends dump

Looks like the program inexplicably randomized all my top friends... so at some point when I have a LOT of extra time, I'll have to go back and find all you fine folks again & get you in there. I the ...
Posted by Darol Anger on Mon, 04 Aug 2008 11:33:00 PST

To my Spanish Friends... WOMEX 9-31

To all my musical friends from Spain:Mike Marshall and I will be performing at the WOMEX expo with the Swedish band Vasen on Friday, October 31, in Sevila. I wonder if any of you folks have contacts i...
Posted by Darol Anger on Mon, 28 Jul 2008 01:25:00 PST

Ireland! The Baltimore Fiddle Festival

Ireland... brilliant! I had no idea it's so great over there. Through the connection of Aoife o'Donovan, I and my group The Republic Of Strings were invited to attend the Baltimore Fiddle fester, rig...
Posted by Darol Anger on Tue, 13 May 2008 06:06:00 PST

happy birthday to me

On this day I'm travelling to Ireland, home of fiddling!Specifically to the Baltimore Fiddle Fair, on the far west coast of the green isle. Very excited about this, it will be my first visit to Irelan...
Posted by Darol Anger on Wed, 07 May 2008 01:31:00 PST