by Darol Anger

Darol Anger plays fiddle with the new group Comotion, touring up the west coast in October. Violinist, fiddler, composer, producer and educator, Darol Anger is at home in a number of musical genres, some of which he helped to invent. With the jazz-oriented Turtle Island String Quartet, Anger developed and popularized new techniques for playing contemporary styles on string instruments. The bluegrass-derived Psychograss and "Chambergrass" group Newgrange features his style-bending compositions and arrangements. His folk-jazz fusion group the Montreux Band became the musical model for the New Adult Contemporary radio format. The David Grisman Quintet forged a new genre of acoustic string band music with Darol's "fertile inventiveness, surprising touches and technical mastery" (Boston Herald) often in the forefront.

Anger has produced dozens of critically lauded recordings since 1977 which have featured his compositions and performances. Highlights include the Heritage Folk Music project, which brings together some of the most important voices in the traditional, contemporary folk and bluegrass music scenes, 2 releases by Newgrange, the Anger-Marshall Band, which asks new questions of the jazz/new acoustic music genre, and his latest, Diary Of A Fiddler, which sets Anger in duet with the most prominent and innovative fiddlers of our time.

Bob Makin's interview with Darol appears in the September 00 issue at http://www.jambands.com/sep00/features/fiddle.html
The Comotion web site is: www.comotion.cc
Darol's web site is www.darolanger.com