A little bit of Ireland Summer here; Darol, Anger's unlisted 7-part YouTube interview with the incredible Irish fiddler Adam Agee is now available exclusively to Artistworks Fiddle students. 

Hey you Fiddlers, I'll be teaching and playing the Fiddle for two weeks in Australia, returning to the States on January 16, just in time to start the new semester at Berklee. While they do have the Internet in Australia, my time for doing Video Responses will be limited... so don't worry if I'm a little late with your response... I WILL get to it! Meanwhile, I'll attempt to post any newsy fiddle news from there. I'll be teaching at the Sunshine Fiddle Camp about 300 kilometers north of Brisbane, working with fiddlers and cellists from all over Australia....

If you're tired of your same 3 holiday records:

Darol Anger’s 3rd Annual Keepin'-It-In-The-Fam Holiday Show with Emy Phelps, Tristan Clarridge, Ethan Jodziewicz, Simon Chrisman and Jacob Ransom at the Alberta Rose Theatre:

Acoustic Music legend Darol Anger joined rising singer-songwriter Emy Phelps in organizing some of the country's best young string musicians in a multigenerational musical experience focusing on the spirit of Midwinter and the turning of the year.

If you're tired of your same 3 holiday records:

Darol Anger’s 3rd Annual Keepin'-It-In-The-Fam Holiday Show with Emy Phelps, Tristan Clarridge, Ethan Jodziewicz, Simon Chrisman and Jacob Ransom at the Alberta Rose Theatre:

Acoustic Music legend Darol Anger joined rising singer-songwriter Emy Phelps in organizing some of the country's best young string musicians in a multigenerational musical experience focusing on the spirit of Midwinter and the turning of the year.

Mr Sun, Darol's band of youthful string virtuosos, spent a November week in a remote cabin in the Maine Woods recording their 3rd release in 2018.

Long-time musical kindred spirits Mike Marshall and Darol Anger re-unite for an all-Duo recording, to be released on Adventure Music in 2018.

Whew! Just July has been an incredible adventure of fiddling, teaching and performing all over the place; with a Fiddle Academy Week in Grand Targhee and a full-on Solar Eclipse in August, I don't know if I can stand the thrills. But today I was able to get back into the AW studio responding to some very interesting videos from my beloved students here... so challenging and fun!


Where to begin? Well, how about July 5, with my fellow AW Perfesser Mike Block's Incredible String Camp held in Florida (if you only do one camp all year, it should be this!)


This article was fun to do and was a nice addition to a magazine that focuses largely on classical styles, though there is a steady percentage of folk and jazz string coverage. Most of you all already know all the stuff I'm talking about in the interview!

Summer is just about here, and I’ll be peregrinating around the US (and a few other countries) sharing information and music with fiddlers, violinists, and other string players.

The first week of March held a trip to the American String Teachers’ annual convention, where string teachers from every tradition gather to celebrate and share new and old ideas on how and what to teach. That happened in Pittsburgh, PA this year and presented some of my teaching ideas and discovered amazing new ideas from other brilliant and dedicated teachers.