Darol Anger is an American violinist, born in 1953.

Career[link]

Darol Anger entered popular music at the age of 21 as a founding member of The David Grisman Quintet.^[1] Anger played fiddle to David Grisman's mandolin in The David Grisman Quintet's (DGQ) 1977 debut. He co-founded the Turtle Island String Quartet with David Balakrishnan in 1985 and performed, composed, and arranged for the chamber jazz group. He frequently collaborates with fellow DGQ alumnus Mike Marshall.

Anger met pianist Barbara Higbie in Paris and formed a musical partnership with her. Together they released an early record on Windham Hill, Tideline (1982). Two years later, they formed a group called The Darol Anger/Barbara Higbie Quintet with Mike Marshall, Todd Phillips, and Andy Narell. This group performed at the 1984 Montreux Jazz Festival. The quintet later took the name Montreux. After two studio releases, the band broke up in 1990, and Anger continued with the Turtle Island String Quartet, founded in 1985. He still collaborates with Montreux and fellow Psychograss colleague, Mike Marshall, and occasionally also collaborates with Barbara Higbie and Michael Manring.

Using classical, folk, and jazz music as springboards, he currently leads Republic Of Strings, founded with Scott Nygaard. He also co-founded The Duo (with Mike Marshall), Psychograss (the bluegrass group including Mike Marshall, mandolin; Todd Phillips, bass; David Grier, guitar; and Tony Trischka, banjo), and Fiddlers Four (with Michael Doucet, Bruce Molsky, violins; and Rushad Eggleston, cello). Anger also plays frequently with pianist Phil Aaberg. He has performed or recorded with musicians ranging from Tony Rice, Stephane Grappelli and Mark O'Connor to Marin Alsop, Bill Evans, Nickel Creek, Chris Thile & Punch Brothers, Yonder Mountain String Band, Béla Fleck, Taarka and Anonymous 4. He can also be heard on the NPR's Car Talk theme song. He is a MacDowell and UCross Fellow.

Anger currently lives in Portland, Maine,^[2] after moving from his long-time home in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has completed the construction of 2 violins under the guidance of luthier Jonathan Cooper and was in 2010 named Associate Professor at the Berklee College of Music.^[3]

In 2011 Darol began teaching fiddle online at the School of Fiddle, as part of the Academy of Bluegrass.

Discography[link]

• Fiddlistics (1981)
• Tideline - with Barbara Higbie (1982)
• Live at Montreux '84 (1984)
• Chiaroscuro (1985)
• The Duo - with Mike Marshall (1988)
• Jazz Violin Celebration (1988)
• Like Minds (1997)
• Jam (1999)
• Diary of a Fiddler (1999)
• Christmas Heritage (1998)
• At Home and On The Range (1997)
• Brand New Can (2000)
• Now Hear This (2001)
• Heritage (1996)
• Republic Of Strings"(2005)
• Generation Nation (2007)
• Woodshop (2007)
• Mike Marshall and Darol Anger with Väsen (2007)

Republic of Strings[link]

Republic of Strings at DelFest, 2010

• Republic of Strings (2004)
• Generation Nation (2006)

References[link]

External links[link]

• Darol Anger (Official website)
• Compass Records: Darol Anger (Artist page)
• Guest host of Bowed Radio - Episode 016
• Rebublic of Strings Official Website
• Academy of Bluegrass
• School of Fiddle with Darol Anger

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Tony Trischka
Tony Trischka, 2008
Background information
Birth name	Tony Trischka
Born	(1949-01-16) January 16, 1949 (age 63)
Origin	Syracuse, New York, USA
Genres	Bluegrass, Country
Occupations	Bluegrass musician
Years active	1970s–present
Labels	Rounder Records
Notable instruments
Banjo, steel guitar

Tony Trischka (born January 16, 1949 in Syracuse, New York) is an American five-string banjo player.

Biography[link]

Tony Trischka was born in Syracuse, New York, and graduated from Syracuse University (in Syracuse, New York) with a B.A in Fine Arts, and was inspired to play the banjo in 1963, listening to the Kingston Trio's "Charlie and The MTA".

Trischka was a founding member of the Syracuse band Down City Ramblers during and beyond his college years, along with such musicians as Harry "Tersh" Gilmore (aka Lou Martin), Tom Hosmer, John Cadley, John Dancks, Greg Root, Greg Johnson, and Joel Diamond. Along with Gilmore and Hosmer he was also in the trio calling itself The Inedible String Bland. Both bands primarily, and frequently, played at Syracuse's premier music club/restaurant of the 1960s, Cap'n Mac's Clam Shack.

In 1971 he made his recording debut on 15 Bluegrass Instrumentals with the Ithaca, NY based Country Cooking, (Peter Wernick, Kenny Kosek, Andy Statman, John Miller, Harry "Tersh" Gilmore) and at the same time, he was also a member of Syracuse's Country Granola (Herb Feuerstein, Johno Lanford, Greg Root, Danny Weiss, etc.). In 1973, he began a two-year stint with the New York City band, Breakfast Special (Kenny Kosek, Andy Statman, Roger Mason, Stacy Phillips, Jim Tolles). (This was Trischka's "food band" period.) Between 1974 and 1975, he recorded two solo albums, Bluegrass Light and Heartlands. After another solo album in 1976, Banjoland, he became musical leader for the Broadway show, The Robber Bridegroom. Trischka toured with the show in 1978, the year he also played with the Monroe Doctrine. Beginning in 1978, he also played with artists such as Peter Rowan, Richard Greene, and Stacy Phillips.

In the early 1980s, he began recording with his new group Skyline, which recorded its first album in 1983. Subsequent albums included Robot Plane Flies over Arkansas (solo, 1983), Stranded in the Moonlight (with Skyline, 1984) and Hill Country (solo, 1985). In 1984, he performed in his first feature film, Foxfire. Three years later, he worked on the soundtrack for Driving Miss Daisy. Trischka produced the Belgian group Gold Rush's No More Angels in 1988. The following year, Skyline recorded its final album, Fire of Grace. He also recorded the theme song for Books on the Air, a popular National Public Radio Show, and continued his affiliation with the network by appearing on Garrison Keillor's A Prairie Home Companion, Mountain Stage, From Our Front Porch, and other radio shows.

Trischka's solo recordings include 1993's World Turning, 1995's Glory Shone Around: A Christmas Collection and 1999's Bend. New Deal, a studio album that followed in 2003, was a bluesy adaptation of bluegrass standards that included a vocal cameo by Loudon Wainwright. Double Banjo Bluegrass Spectacular, with an appearance by comedian Steve Martin, came out four years later.

Trischka was banjo teacher to Béla Fleck, regarded, along with Trischka, as one of the world's top banjoists.^[1]

In the late 1990s, Trischka teamed up with David Grier, Darol Anger, Mike Marshall, and Todd Phillips as "Psychograss" and formed a new band, whose debut album Bend explored yet more territory uncharted by banjo.

In January 2007 Trischka released, to critical and popular acclaim, Double Banjo Bluegrass Spectacular, featuring new music and performances by a stellar line-up of musicians including Earl Scruggs, Béla Fleck and the multi-talented Steve Martin. On April 26, 2007, he performed live on The Late Show With David Letterman with Steve Martin and Béla Fleck.

On October 4, 2007 Trischka won three International Bluegrass Music Awards, for Album of the Year, Recorded Event of the Year, and Banjo Player of the Year.

In 2008, Trischka released an album on Smithsonian Folkways entitled Territory, which in 2009 won the 8th annual Independent Music Awards for Best Americana Album.^[2]

In 2009, Tony Trischka launched the 'Tony Trischka School of Banjo', an online banjo school.

In 2010 produced Steve Martin’s Rare Bird Alert (March 2011-Rounder) which features performances by Paul McCartney and the Dixie Chicks.

In 2011 Tony acted as the musical director of the documentary "Give Me the Banjo", which first aired on PBS in the fall of 2011.

Trischka resides in Fair Lawn, New Jersey.

Television appearances[link]

• David Letterman show, with Steve Martin, Bela Fleck, Brittany Haas, and Michael Daves, April 2007
• Ellen Degeneres show, with Steve Martin, Brittany Haas, and Michael Daves, April 2007
• Live at the Quick, with Bela Fleck, 2004–2006
• ABC “Views”, with Béla Fleck, Summer 1997
• “ABC World News Tonight” with Peter Jennings, Summer, 1996
• “CBS Sunday Morning” with Charles Osgood - feature story (including Béla Fleck), 1995
• “Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?” (PBS), 1992
• British television production of “Echoes of America: History of the Five String Banjo”, 1989
• CBS “Hallmark Hall of Fame” production of “Foxfire” with Jessica Tandy, Hume Cronyn and John Denver, 1987
• Ralph Emory’s “Frets” Awards Show, The Nashville Network, 1987
• Nashville Network’s “Fire on the Mountain,” 1984, 1986
• Merv Griffin Show, 1976

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official Site
• Tony Trischka School of Banjo
• Academy of Bluegrass

Bryan Sutton is an American musician. Primarily known as a flatpicked acoustic guitar player, Sutton also plays many other instruments including mandolin, banjo, and electric guitar.

Sutton first came to prominence as part of Ricky Skaggs' bluegrass band Kentucky Thunder. Sutton eventually left the band to focus on session work. In addition to Skaggs, Sutton has toured with the Dixie Chicks, Jerry Douglas, Sam Bush, Béla Fleck, Hot Rize, Chris Thile, Tony Rice and others.

In 2007, Sutton toured with Chris Thile & The How to Grow a Band, filling in for Chris Eldridge while he was on tour with the Infamous Stringdusters.

In 2011 Sutton began teaching guitar online at the School of Guitar, as part of the Academy of Bluegrass.

Gear[link]

Sutton endorses guitars built by Dana Bourgeois. He plays a Bourgeois "Country Boy Deluxe" model dreadnought and also has his own signature model, the "Banjo Killer" slope-shouldered dreadnought. He also regularly performs with a 1940 Martin D-28.

Discography[link]

Solo albums[link]

Awards[link]

• 2000 - IBMA Guitar Player of the Year
• 2003 - IBMA Guitar Player of the Year
• 2004 - IBMA Guitar Player of the Year
• 2005 - IBMA Guitar Player of the Year
• 2006 - IBMA Guitar Player of the Year
• 2007 - Grammy Award for Best Country Instrumental Performance for Whiskey Before Breakfast w/ Doc Watson
• 2011 - IBMA Guitar Player of the Year ^[1]

References[link]

1. ^ "STEVE MARTIN & THE STEEP CANYON RANGERS NAMED IBMA ENTERTAINERS OF THE YEAR". http://ibma.org/node/280. Retrieved 2011-12-08. 

External links[link]

• BryanSutton.com, Official site
• Bryan Sutton Interview
• Bryan Sutton with Martin Taylor
• Academy of Bluegrass
• School of Guitar with Bryan Sutton

Missy Raines (born April 6, 1962) is a bassist. She has achieved acclaim in the world of bluegrass, including seven International Bluegrass Music Association Bass Player of the Year awards. In addition to being one of the most awarded instrumentalists in her field, she is the only woman to win more than one instrumental award.

Raines has toured internationally with Jim Hurst and The Claire Lynch Band. She has formed a band, Missy Raines and the New Hip to explore fusions of jazz, bluegrass, pop and funk forms. She has signed with Compass Records, and Missy Raines & the New Hip will release several albums on that label, beginning with Inside Out which was released on February 10, 2009.

Hailing from Short Gap, WV, Raines began touring professionally as a teenager. She has performed and recorded with several first generation bluegrass legends, including Josh Graves, Kenny Baker and Jesse McReynolds. She is regarded for her ability to play both straight-ahead bluegrass and more progressive forms of music.

In 2011 Raines began teaching bass online at the School of Bass, as part of the Academy of Bluegrass.

External links[link]

• IBMA's list of 2007 winners
• IBMA's list of past winners
• Official Website
• Missy Raines' biography, written by Jon Weisberger
• Bassist Raines to Play Downhome, Johnson City Press
• Compass Records
• News story about Missy Raines signing to Compass Records
• Academy of Bluegrass
• School of Bass with Missy Raines

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Stuart Duncan (born April 14, 1964) is a bluegrass musician who plays the fiddle, mandolin, guitar and banjo. Born in Quantico, Virginia and raised in Santa Paula, California, where he played in the school band, he has been a member of the Nashville Bluegrass Band since 1985, and is a much-in-demand session musician who has worked with such stars as George Strait, Dolly Parton, Reba McEntire and Barbra Streisand, to name a few.^[1]. Recently Duncan joined forces with cellist Yo-Yo Ma, bassist Edgar Meyer and mandolinist Chris Thile in The Goat Rodeo Sessions, an "ambitious and groundbreaking project that brings together four string virtuosos."^[2]

As a member of the Nashville Bluegrass Band, he won the Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Album in 1994 and 1996,^[3] and was named the Academy of Country Music Fiddle Player of the Year for 1996, 1998, 1999, 2001, and 2004, and Specialty Instrument Player of the Year for 2006.^[1] In 2006, he toured with the Mark Knopfler/Emmylou Harris Roadrunning tour and is on the All The Roadrunning and Real Live Roadrunning albums. In 2008, he toured with the Robert Plant/Alison Krauss Raising Sand tour, to much acclaim. He appeared on Transatlantic Sessions Series 4 broadcast by the BBC in September/October 2009.

Footnotes[link]

References[link]

• http://www.mikecompton.net/Photos/Promo/NBB.Bio_TwentyYearBlues.doc