Darol Anger
Darol Anger is an acoustic music legend known as much for his innovative fiddle style beyond Bluegrass and Jazz traditions, and his teaching. Darol has helped drive the evolution of the contemporary string band through his involvement with numerous pathbreaking ensembles such as the Turtle Island String Quartet, the David Grisman Quintet, and his current touring group Mr Sun. This podcast episode is being released a few days before his new 2-album set Diary of a Fiddler #2: The Empty Nest, and you’ll be hearing many clips from this brilliant collaborative project that features dozens of phenomenal string players and improvisers. You’ll find the titles and performers from these clips in the timestamps, and please go over to Bandcamp and buy this album, which you’ll also find linked in the show notes.
You’ll find some related episodes of this podcast linked for you, with some of the many wonderful musicians we talked about in this wide-ranging episode.
Anyone interested in the history of American acoustic music will be curious to hear Darol’s stories from his long career, and his advice to students from his many years teaching at Berklee and online at Artistworks. Most importantly I’m sure you’ll be inspired by Darol’s openness and generosity to musical connection.
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