Mr Sun Drives Across the Midwest, Stops to Play Music
Mon, 10/23/2023 - 5:00pm
This very week marks the start of a Mr Sun fall tour! Centering in the Great Lakes region, Darol's all-star band will hit some of our favorite Midwestern spots.
Darol & Mr Sun Premiere Duke Ellington's Nutcracker at Freshgrass
Mon, 09/25/2023 - 5:52pm
We did it! “Mr Sun Plays Duke Ellington’s Nutcracker Suite” debuted to a packed house at the FreshGrass Festival on Friday.
Much Thanks to the FreshGrass Foundation for commissioning the work, and special thanks to Leo Austin-Muehleck, Dan Bui, Ella Bebe Jordan, Kathleen Parks, Clara Rose and Caleb Swan, aka the Hollywood Honk, for rounding out the “big band.”
We couldn’t have done it in such style without them! AND special huge thanks to Dave Sinko for being there to engineer.
The album comes out December 1 on Adhyâropa Records, but you can preorder vinyl, downloads and CDs at mrsun.bandcamp.com
Artistworks Discount on Darol's new Mr SUn CD "EXTROVERT".
Fri, 06/17/2022 - 1:48pm
Topics: Darol Solos Transcribed, Extrovert, Grant Gordy Solos, Joe K. Walsh Solos, Mr Sun, Mr Sun Charts, Mr Sun Music, New Recording
Greetings, you fine faithful fiddlers, you.
I’ve found a way to offer a 25% discount on your purchase of our new Mr Sun CD EXTROVERT.
Just go to my Darol Anger Bandcamp.com page
...and enter " darolartistworksdiscount " in the discount box. You'll get 25% off the $20 price.
There will be a shipping charge, sorry. It now costs close to $5 to send a CD first-class USPS. Geez.
Also available now: The Mr Sun Book of Charts and Solos for Extrovert.
This book features the crucial Guitar, Mandolin, and Fiddle solos from most of the tunes and songs on Extrovert, and chord charts and “heads” of the band’s original compositions as well. Quite revealing!
With these transcriptions, you can enjoy a "Sun's-eye view" on what we're doing over some of the pieces we play, and maybe get a little insight into some of the inner workings of this band's improvisational vocabulary. And you can see what the chords are!
Same Bandcamp page, etc.
Breaker’s Bakedown on the 5-string Fiddle
Fri, 04/15/2022 - 9:49am
Greetings fiddlers! We’re inaugurating a whole new 5-string Fiddle lesson series with this preview: a lesson on my original tune “Breaker’s Bakedown”.
This is a 5-string fiddle tune that appears on my new Mr Sun Band recording, "Extrovert", released on Compass Records in mid-May. This is a preview and you can hear the single on Bluegrass Today at this URL.
Mr Sun always likes to put at least one unapologetically straight-ahead fiddle tune into every show and every recording. I wrote this one to feature and celebrate the five-string fiddle; you can't really play this one right without that bottom string on there.
Right at the crux of the tune, it's like that first hill on the roller coaster, up to the top all the way to the bottom.
I was thinking about Kenny Baker a lot when this tune got made, and I feel like there's a lot of Mr Baker in there. He had some pretty sly, dry humor going in so many of his tunes. So... in honor of Kenny and all the thousands of cooking shows we watched during the pandemic, this one's called "Breaker's Bakedown".
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