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2008-2009
The new Republic Of Strings 2009. Block, Rioux, DA, Nygaard. An amazing old print Mike Marshall found. Darol & the Nathaniel Rowan 5 string. The Monster String Quartet, in an unpleasantly surprised moment, at the Yonder Mt New Years’ concert at the Ogden theatre in Denver. Anger, Hass, Haas,…
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2006-2007
The Duo with the Woodshop Orchestra: Wes Corbett, Tashina Clarridge, DA, MM, Bryn Davies, Tristan Clarridge, Simon Chrisman. PICKATHON !!! The eighth anniversary of the big KBOO radio benefit fester, near Portland, Oregon. Yeah, Betse & Martha! Also that other fiddlin’ fella. After we took this part out of…
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2004-2005
A Winter Solstice Tour in December brought The Duo together with the inimitable, amazing Tuck & Patti. At Telluride, Darol & Sam & Byron & a couple of their heroes: Jena-Luc Ponty and Bobby McFerrin. More Soulgrass, with Bill Evans, Bela Fleck, Vinnie Colaiuta and Jimmy Haslip. the Fiddles…
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2000-2003
A heavy fiddle lineup at YMSB’s String Summit. Gabe Witcher, DA, Brittany Haas, Bruce Molsky, unidentified hair, Heidi Andrade, Rushad back there. The nicest bunch of guys you’d ever want to jump on the bus with. Here’s a photo of 2001 Mark O’Connor Fiddle Camp Jazz Night’s final melee….
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1990s
Darol’s show, 4 Generations Of Jazz Violin, on stage: Regina Carter, Johnny Frigo, Matt Glaser, Joe Kennedy Jr, and DA Darol with 2 incredible musicians/composers: Philip Aaberg and Eugene Freisen, out in Kansas somewhere. The Prairie Trio. Darol appears with a Japanese pianist/snake oil guy at the hallowed Sumo…
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1980s
who wuz those guys? The original string quartet that changed all the other things. The Turtle Island String Quartet: Anger, Balakrishnan, Sazer, Summer. a nice Irene Young photo of the mid-late early period Turtle Island String Quartet: Anger, Summer, Seidenberg, Balakrishnan. Middle-early period Turtle Island String Quartet: Katie Wreede,…
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Oligocene
1976…the DGQ that made the record that changed a lot of things. Now that was a mandolin quartet…our goal wuz beyong. A fateful jam at the Cambridge Folk Festival, summer 1977. Just for fun… raise a little acoustic hell….
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Cretaceous
Jamming on the street in pre-earthquake Santa Cruz with the great George Stavis, NYC banjo innovator. Down at Santa Cruz we played a lot of square dances. At least one of these people are dead. I wish they weren’t. 1970….
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precambrian
1908, Ontario, Oregon… just across the river from Weiser. On the left, Ernest Ashmore. On the right, his brother-in-law, my great- grandfather, Harvey Long. For real!…
