Bluegrass music was built upon historic performances by the creators of the style: Bill Monroe, Earl Scruggs, Lester Flatt, Vassar Clements, Chubby Wise, Benny Martin, and many others. We study those performances to master the style. And in Bluegrass music, as in Bebop, Rock, and many other genres, quoting a performance from the original recording is considered not only a good idea, it’s a badge of knowledge and belonging, and a way of connecting the past with the present. Knowing these genre-defining solos can help you develop subtle and nuanced musical commentaries on the original solo, and help you create your own accurate, original take on the entire style.

We've been releasing one solo a week and now they're finally all up there, it's a fiddle fest!

Now Available:

• Muleskinner Blues Kickoff #1
• Muleskinner Blues Kickoff #2
• Fiddle Arpeggios: 1-4-5- in A
• Uncle Pen
• My Cabin in Caroline
• Somone Took My Place with You
• Can't You Hear Me Calling 
• Footprints in the Snow
• Foggy Mountain Special
• Blue Night
• Gonna Settle Down
• On My Way Back Home
• Ginseng Sullivan
• When Joy Kills Sorrow
• Border Ride
• Flint Hill Special

Hey, you Pacific Northwest fiddlers, you! You can attend an in-person hands-on Fiddle Workshop led by Darol Anger at the Wintergrass Music Festical in Bellevue, WA on Thursday Feb 23. Find out all you need to know right here.

http://www.wintergrass.com/intensives.html

Hey Folks!

We've finally been able to put together the closest thing you'll get to an Artistworks String Music Camp this coming summer; It'll happen the week of May 29-June 2. It's the New Acoustic Masters music camp in New York, at the amazing Full Moon Resort located in the heart of the Catskill Forest Preserve. We'll have Darol Anger teaching fiddle, Tony Trischka teaching banjo, Matt Flinner on mandolin and Chris Eldridge on guitar; all masters of their instruments and master teachers. Check this out!

More Info:

• https://www.newacousticmasters.com
• https://www.newacousticmasters.com/full-moon

I'll be teaching at a brand-new camp for string musicians this summer, in New York at a beautiful facility in the woods, with some Artistworks Intructors and other brilliant musicians. Check this out for your summer music vacation: https://www.newacousticmasters.com/

Full Moon Resort, located one half hour west of Woodstock, New York is a year-round mountain resort located in the heart of the "Forever Wild" Catskill Forest Preserve. Dedicated to the celebration of nature, music and the arts, this one hundred-acre wonderland of mountains, fields, and streams is a world of its own. "Music and art in nature" is a central theme at Full Moon Resort. Music is always in the air with the Music Masters Camps offering special interactive experiences with world-renowned artists.

Darol Anger’s 5th Annual Keepin' It In the Fam Holiday Show with Tony Trischka,

Emy Phelps, Ethan Jodziewicz and Grant Gordy

To all you wonderful fiddle students who have played Rubber Dolly: This is why I teach this tune!

Best wishes,

Darol

https://darolanger1.bandcamp.com/track/rubber-dolly-darol-vassar-with-the-ros

Here's a great version of "The Coal Burnin' Grease Fire" I played recently with Mike Barnett (interviewed on this site!), and Joe K. Walsh on mandolin - recorded live at Augusta Bluegrass Week 2016! This tune appeared first on a Compass CD Mike Marshall & I made called Brand New Can. You can also download the Psychograss version here: https://darolanger1.bandcamp.com/track/psychograsslive-coal-burnin-grease-fire. 

Hello folks!
This has been a sad year for great musicians leaving us… but if you are reading this, you are still here, and we're glad to have you!
I've had a quite intense summer, which officially began in June with the Berklee Global String Fling,

and a great concert right here in Cambridge, MA with the incredible Bruce Molsky.

Hey, You Fiddlers, you:

So I went and did it: A visit to ArtistWorks Central, out in Napa, California.... happened. And I recorded something like 40 lessons, ranging from a slew of new tunes and ideas for arpeggios, the Amazing Fiddle Scale, the long-promised Dozen Iconic Bluegrass Fiddle Breaks, and a whole new Gypsy Jazz Section.... along with an expanded and much more complete multiple section on Bow Shuffles!=

...that fiddle isn't gonna play itself.

The new recording...You can buy this now.