The Fiddlers Four

Michael Doucet

brought Cajun music out of obscurity to joyful public acclaim. Michael's supercharged fiddling and singing powers his Grammy award-winning group Beausoleil, by far the best known Cajun band in the world, and has helped raise public appreciation of Acadian culture to ubiquity.

With his constant research and vast knowledge of Acadian history, Michael has not only preserved an essential part of American culture, but moved it forward into the mainstream. Beausoleil, in its 25th year, is a regular guest on Prairie Home Companion, composed and played the music for the feature film Belizaire The Cajun, earned six Grammy nominations, and has released a dozen best-selling recordings on Arhoolie and Rhino Records.

Bruce Molsky

has been dubbed the Rembrandt of Appalachian Fiddling for his brilliant mastery of regional styles, encyclopaedic knowledge of tunes, and especially his supercharged and entirely personal rhythm, which has been known to break glass, explode closed containers, and compel dionisian episodes of involuntary dancing. Reknowned musicians Tommy Jarrell and Albert Hash were two of Bruce's mentors in the Blue Ridge Mountains where Bruce learned to play. He has been featured in Acoustic Guitar, Fiddler Magazine, and his three recordings on Rounder Records have created an unprecedented stir in the world of old-time music, and he is accomplished on guitar, banjo, and vocals.

Darol Anger

changed bluegrass and jazz fiddling by blending elements of the two, just as swing fiddlers did in the mid-fifties, but using modern harmonies and rhythms. Violinist, fiddler, composer, producer and educator, he 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 virtuosic "Chambergrass" groups Psychograss and Newgrange, and the plugged-in Anger-Marshall Band feature his compositions and arrangements. His folk-jazz fusion group Montreux was the original 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, surprisng touches and technical mastery" (Boston Herald) often in the forefront.

Rushad Eggleston

Fiddlers 4 shows feature the brilliant cellist Rushad Eggleston. This hugely talented youngster is a master of improvisation and fiddle styles on a relatively unwieldy instrument, the cello. He has done things that nobody has done with the cello, and was the first string student admitted to the prestigious Berklee School Of Music on a full scholarship. The addition of Rushad to this trio makes a the dream of a true American Vernacular String Quartet a reality.