Mr. Sun
Sunday, November 30, 8pm
Mr.Sun, A 21st Century string band.... multi-generational
hot shots !
Darol
Anger, Joe Walsh, Grant Gordy & Ethan Jodziewicz
Mr. Sun
is the name of a new musical project: Darol Anger, Joe Walsh on mandolin (Gibson
Brothers, himself), Grant Gordy on guitar (David Grisman, Jake Schepps) and
Ethan Jodziewicz on acoustic bass.
This
will be an intimate show with Acoustic Music’s finest stars of any
generation... Four generations of the most creative minds in American String
Band Music... Including an original co-founder of the DGQ. This is an
opportunity to hear these instruments in the setting they were designed for,
interpreting music from the entire swath of America’s Songbook at the highest
level...
Legendary fiddler Darol Anger, youthful guitar
whiz Grant Gordy, and the redoubtable mandolinist Joe Walsh have all spent
their lives moving from place to place, adopting a town and moving on, toward
an magisterial knowledge of the physical and psychic terrains that make up the
Americas. Though each is of a different generation, they've walked
similar musical paths, exploring the worlds of bluegrass, blues, jazz, and
old-time, on their way to mastery of their chosen instruments. Day by day, they
deepen their fluency in the vast swath of dialects that comprise American roots
music.
DAROL ANGER
Fiddler, composer, producer and educator, Darol
Anger is at home in a number of musical genres, some of which he helped to
invent. Exceptional among modern fiddlers for his versatility and depth, Anger
has helped drive the evolution of the contemporary string band through his
involvement with numerous pathbreaking ensembles such as his Republic Of
Strings, the Turtle Island String Quartet, the David Grisman Quintet, Montreux,
his Duo with Mike Marshall, and others. He has performed and taught all over
the world with musicians such as Dr. Billy Taylor, Bela Fleck, Bill Evans,
Edgar Meyer, Bill Frisell, Tony Rice, Tim O’Brien, Anonymous 4, Marin Alsop and
the Cabrillo Orchestra, the Detroit Symphony, Mark O’Connor, and Stephane
Grappelli. Today Darol can be heard on NPR's "Car Talk" theme every
week, along with Earl Scruggs, David Grisman and Tony Rice. He was also the
violinist on the phenomenally popular Sim City computer games. In addition to
performing all over the world, he has recorded and produced scores of important
recordings since 1977, is a MacDowell and UCross Fellow, and has received
numerous composers’ residencies and grants. He has been a featured soloist on
dozens of recordings and motion picture soundtracks. He is an Associate
Professor at the prestigious Berklee School of music. He recently began an
ambitious online Fiddle School at ArtistWorks.com. His website is
www.darolanger.com
GRANT
GORDY
Assuming the guitarist role in the fabled David
Grisman Quintet, a spot previously held by such notables as Tony Rice, Mark
O’Connor, Frank Vignola and Mike Marshall, has confirmed Grant Gordy as a
pre-eminent young voice on acoustic guitar. David Grisman says Gordy “belongs to
the new elite of American acoustic practitioners who are pushing the
ever-expanding envelope of a musical frontier.”
His work has been widely recognized for its
consistent excellence and diversity. He was featured on the covers of
Flatpicking Guitar Magazine and Japan’s premier bluegrass magazine, Moonshiner.
He was recently written up in Just Jazz Guitar and in 2010, Acoustic Guitar
Magazine celebrated his debut CD in its Top Ten Acoustic Albums of the Year.
Gordy’s music has been heard on National Public Radio’s
Morning Edition, All Things Considered and the prestigious Tiny Desk Concerts.
Gordy was selected in 2006 to be one of 15 participants in Carnegie Hall’s
“Porous Borders of Music” workshop, led by acoustic music legends Edgar Meyer
and Mike Marshall. He’s played at Bonnaroo Music Festival, the Montréal Jazz
Festival, Carnegie Hall, Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival in San Francisco
and in the UK and Russia.
Gordy was drawn to the guitar early on as a
means of expression and intellectual curiosity. Moving to Colorado from Oregon
in his 20s opened his horizons as he began playing in a wide range of different
styles.
Now based in New York, Gordy’s diverse musical
gifts make him the ideal all-around guitarist for one of the world’s most
varied musical cities. He’s currently focused on writing new original material,
delving headlong into the Big Apple’s extraordinary jazz scene, continuing to
tour with Grisman and other collaborators, teaching, and as always, staying
open to new musical experiences.
"The young bluegrass/jazz virtuoso’s
recording debut is an inspired, ambitious, coherent collection of original
compositions for string jazz quartet (guitar, fiddle, mandolin, bass) that
ranks with the best of his employer, David Grisman.” --Acoustic Guitar Magazine
JOE WALSH
Recognized as one of the foremost contemporary
mandolinists, Joe has also won acclaim and affection for his vocals and his
talents on a number of other instruments, including guitar and octave mandolin.
Legendary fiddler Darol Anger called “one of my favorite musicians on earth.”
With two solo albums to his credit, he toured internationally with the
award-winning bluegrass supergroup The Gibson Brothers.
In the spring of 2011 Joe released his second
solo record, “Sweet Loam,” which features several of his recent compositions
and new arrangements of some more familiar songs. An exceptional cast of
musicians joins him, including Mike Block, Scott Law, Karl Doty, Lauren Rioux,
and Darol Anger, who also co-produced the record with Joe. In the Fall of
2011 Joe returned to Berklee as both a mandolin instructor and as Managing
Director of the American Roots Music Program.
ETHAN JODZIEWICZ
Ethan Jodziewicz currently studies at Curtis Institute with Edgar Meyer. Making
a musical home for Mr Sun in the space around and between the great American
roots styles, this quartet draws from all of their varied backgrounds
(Grammy-nominated fiddle music and jazz, award-winning bluegrass, indie/pop
grass, new acoustic string bands, and classical music) in crafting a sound all
their own, and is drawing all the right kind of attention for their new musical
work.
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