Darol Anger shares from his Diary of a Fiddler #2
By WTJU
Date: 09/18/2025
Time: 4:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Acoustic music legend Darol Anger will stop by WTJU this Thursday afternoon to go track by track through his latest release, “Diary of a Fiddler #2: The Empty Nest”, out now on Adhyâropa Records. Intended as a summation not only of his career as a performing and recording artist but also as a capstone to his enormously influential career as an educator, Diary of a Fiddler #2 appears as the acoustic world prepares for the 50th anniversary of the hugely influential David Grisman Quintet recordings which featured Anger. To herald the occasion, and to author a bookend to his own career, he has called upon dozens of his former mentees – three generations of fiddlers – who, taken together, make up a veritable who’s who of the violin-playing world. You can find out how to get the album at Bandcamp.com.
Just a sampling of the talent Anger calls upon in this collection of duets and trios is eye-popping: Mike Barnett (in possibly his final recorded performance), Alex Hargreaves (Billy Strings), Brittany Haas (Punch Brothers), John Mailander (Bruce Hornsby), Bronwyn Keith-Hynes (Molly Tuttle), and more than twenty more fill the album with astounding virtuosity, an authoritative collective statement on the state of contemporary violin, and serve as Anger’s valedictory address to the world of acoustic music he had an outsized role in creating.
Folk & Beyond airs Thursday afternoon at 91.1FM and online at wtju.net.
