Hello Fiddlers,

Shasta Camp; The Northwest String Summit in Oregon; RockyGrass and the RockyGrass Academy in Lyons, Colorado; all completed!

The Big Chill Band ( Mr Sun & Emy Phelps & Tony Trischka ) at RG

Swannanoa Fiddle Week was a fabulous convocation of picking geniuses, and some of the most wonderful students to be found outside the hallowed Artistworks halls. I had tons of fun with fellow Profs Tony trischka, Mike Marshall, and other great friends such as Matt Flinner, Emory Lester, Mark Johnson, Bruce Molsky, and I got an incredible interview for us with the phenomenal jazz fiddler Billy Contreras.

Some great jamming and visiting with Fiddle Schoolers Ryan, Joel, and Woolybear, and a totally wild ConcertWindow broadcast... the first from Rockygrass! And a great interview with the amazing Irish fiddler Adam Agee is in the can, dealing with the many intricacies of Irish fiddle ornamentation.

Lots of exciting things have already happened this year: The Sedona Bluegrass Festival, a great trip to the Yukon Territory, the Strings Without Boundaries fiddle camp in Washington, and the Berklee Roots Weekend Workshop.... I'm getting better at sleeping on an airplane.

thanks for being here, folks! I have some down time in Nashville, and will respond to as many video submissions as I can this week!

DA

The hard-working folks at Artistworks Central have just installed my new mini-series on backing up singers, where I enumerate and demonstrate principles of accompanying singers and other soloists... on the fiddle, of course!  It's in the Intermediate section, a whopping 8 parts! Check it out here: http://artistworks.com/lesson/26232

Hey, Esteemed Fiddle Maniacs!

Don't forget that you can access Guest Lessons from almost every fiddler I've interviewed by clicking the "music+" link and then going to "Special Guests".

Back in Boston after a monumental season of string camps and clinics, festivals, and travelling:

Clinics, camps, concerts, visiting and festers in Kansas, Colorado, California, Oregon, Wisconsin, Colorado again, Michigan, North Carolina, Nashville...whew.

A little bit of Tim and Darol playing his tune, The Crossing. Check out Tim's right hand!!! ...  Fingers and wrist work together so beautifully.

The entire interview, performance and lesson will be going up soon on Darol Anger's School Of Fiddling at ArtistWorks.com

From the Furies' May 2013 Freight And Salvage performance. This tune is a real winner; one of the better "stories", both in a musical sense and also in the historical department. The tune itself has 3 parts, with a winning hook on the 3rd part, which we begin and end with. The general version of the tune comes from guitarist Scott Nygaard's adaptation; he developed the melody of the A part in particular. I added a chromatic descending and ascending line to the not-very-interesting 2nd part, and doubled the length.  Then... we jammed. In particular, Tristan's cello playing on this tune must be heard to be believed.

6-time Grand National Fiddle Champion Tristan Clarridge teaches  "Apple Blossom"!

http://artistworks.com/lesson/52050

Darol Anger and his band The Furies returned form a tour of Northern California, where they played lots of fiddle music with lots of fiddlers. featured fiddlers included Tristan Clarridge, along with Fiddlin' Cellist Renata Bratt and superwhippersnappers John Mailander, Molly Tuttle, Emily Mann and Joe Mann.

Hello all you ArtistWorks folks! I just got back from 2 amazing educational events in Georgia and Maine, where I worked with 2 other ArtistWorks professors: Mike Marshall & Tony Trischka.

http://www.chambermusicsedona.org/special_events.php#SBGI The Sedona Bluegrass Festival invites participants from around the country to work with two of Bluegrass's most distinguished artists: multi instrumentalist Darol Anger and singer/songwriter/guitarist and fiddler Laurie Lewis.