Darol's January Fiddle School Blog
Thu, 01/23/2020 - 7:01pm
Topics: Darol Anger Fiddle School
January has been an amazing month for the Artistworks Fiddle School.
We had a record number of new-year signups and renewals of longtime fiddle students, some of whom have been with us since 2014. This month alone I’ve posted videos of 3 mini-lessons, some suggested Bluegrass solos, an overview of the fiddles I own and why I love them, and a couple of improvisations on jazz tunes.
And I’ve done over 40 personalized Video responses to my students’ videos just this January… we may break 50 before the 31st, which will also be a new record. We are closing in on 2500 personalized Video Responses to students at every level from beginning through Bluegrass and Old-time to advanced Jazz players.
Add that to my expanding series of funny and super-informative interviews with so many of the great fiddlers of the day, some amazing performance footage, backup tracks and study materials, and a great forum where all the participants generously share their knowledge and questions, and you have a pretty decent place to move your fiddling forward. I’m proud and flattered (sometimes flattened!) by the chance to run this amazing school. Thanks for everyone’s support so far.
Darol
Darol Anger's unlisted 7-part Irish Fiddle YouTube Intensive with Adam Agee
Sat, 03/24/2018 - 5:18am
A little bit of an Irish Summer in Colorado.
Darol Anger's unlisted 7-part YouTube interview with the incredible Irish fiddler Adam Agee is now available exclusively to Artistworks Fiddle students.
Irish-style fiddling, like Ireland, is full of amazing twists, turns, and back roads leading to unexpected, highly detailed vistas. Darol interviews one of the most interesting Irish fiddlers out there: Adam Agee. Adam grew up in America, and his choice to pursue Irish traditional music arose purely from a his love for, and resonance with, the Irish sound. Over decades, at Alasdair Fraser's Valley of the Moon fiddle camp and at various workshops in America and Ireland, where he studied with many of today's greatest living tradition-bearers, such as Martin Hayes, Liz Carroll, and others.
Adam's devotion to detail make him an ideal instructor of this style, and you can see in these videos how he approaches an authentic Irish fiddle sound. Darol and Adam geek out on slides, cuts, rolls, trills, and other musical emements of this amazing fiddle style.
These videos were shot outdoors in the aftermath of Colorado's famed Rockygrass Festival, and the lighting and sound are not always perfect, so we're making it available as an unlisted series only for Artistworks Fiddle School students.
Darol Anger's unlisted 7-part Irish Fiddle YouTube Intensive
Sun, 02/11/2018 - 11:03pm
A little bit of an Irish Summer in Colorado.
Darol Anger's unlisted 7-part YouTube interview with the incredible Irish fiddler Adam Agee is now available exclusively to Artistworks Fiddle students.
Irish-style fiddling, like Ireland, is full of amazing twists, turns, and back roads leading to unexpected, highly detailed vistas. Darol interviews one of the most interesting Irish fiddlers out there: Adam Agee. Adam grew up in America, and his choice to pursue Irish traditional music arose purely from a his love for, and resonance with, the Irish sound. Over decades, at Alasdair Fraser's Valley of the Moon fiddle camp and at various workshops in America and Ireland, where he studied with many of today's greatest living tradition-bearers, such as Martin Hayes, Liz Carroll, and others.
Adam's devotion to detail make him an ideal instructor of this style, and you can see in these videos how he approaches an authentic Irish fiddle sound. Darol and Adam geek out on slides, cuts, rolls, trills, and other musical emements of this amazing fiddle style.
These videos were shot outdoors in the aftermath of Colorado's famed Rockygrass Festival, and the lighting and sound are not always perfect, so we're making it available as an unlisted series only for Artistworks Fiddle School students.
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