Darol Anger and The Furies [04/25/15]

In Greek mythology, Furies were ferocious godlike female avengers who would swoop down on mortals and destroy them. In this band, the only difference is that instead of destruction, inspiration occurs. Darol Anger and the Furies is a new group put together uniquely for this decade, comprised of a fantastical all-star array of talented feminine presences, plus two notorious tricksters.

Darol Anger is a unique fiddle guru, who spent three decades reinventing American string music to encompass his explorations of bluegrass, jazz, and music from around the world. The groups that he founded or co-founded include the David Grisman Quintet, the Turtle Island String Quartet, Psychograss, Montreux, and the Republic of Strings ensemble. His playing and composition overflow with passion, prodigious technique, and a generous sense of humor. He has spent his career enlightening and inspiring his fellow musicians, and vice-versa.

Emy Phelps is a standout artist in a large field, a prolific songwriter with a riveting voice which plumbs the deepest emotions. A musician of note in the Pacific Northwest, she has made a 30 year music career while raising 3 sons and one daughter, achieving degrees in Theatre Arts and Special Education, and touring for 7 years with Brian Ransom's Ceramic Ensemble. She does not remember a time when she has not sung. Trained in theater arts, she participated in Ashland, Oregon's world-reknowned Shakespeare Festival programs including both Shakespeare and contemporary productions, and danced for 3 years in The Green Show, an ongoing Festival program. She was a founding member of Brian Ransom's The Ceramic Ensemble, which toured internationally from 1980–1987. As a member of that ensemble she did research on indigenous music in Peru. She is a musician of note in the Oregon region and has performed all around the Pacific Northwest since the late 80's. She has released one recording entitled As It Should Be on Sweet Mercy Records, and has participated in many recordings including Patrick Brayer, Chris Darrow, Norma Tenega, and Duke McVinnie. Past venues include the New Music America Festival in Philadelphia, North By Northwest, the Moab Folk Festival, Wintergrass, The Britt Festival, and Northwest Folk Life Festival in Seattle.

Màiri Chaimbeul is a Boston-based young harp player and composer, who was born and brought up as a Gaelic speaker on the Isle of Skye in the North-West of Scotland. She is known for her unique sound, combining a deep-rooted sense of Gaelic tradition with a distinctive improvising voice and honed classical technique. Mairi has toured throughout the UK and in Europe as well as performing in the USA, with highlights including appearances at Celtic Connections Festival, Glasgow; Gent Festival of Flanders; The Edinburgh International Harp Festival, and Zakir Hussain's Pulse of the World at BT River of Music Festival, London 2012. Mairi was a BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Award nominee in 2010 & 2011, and Finalist in the BBC Radio Scotland Young Jazz Musician 2010 & 2012 and BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician 2010 & 2011. She was also winner of Celtic Connections's Danny Kyle Award with the group Kilairum. Mairi participated in the prestigious Acoustic Music Seminar in Savannah, Georgia, in 2013 & 2014, working with and learning from standard bearers in the field, including Julian Lage, Mike Marshall, David Grisman, Bela Fleck and Darol Anger, alongside 15 of the new generation of outstanding young US acoustic musicians. Since September 2012 she has been a full-scholarship student at Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts.

Jenna Moynihan is a young fiddler on the acoustic music scene, known for her unique and distinct voice on the fiddle. Raised on Chautauqua Lake in New York State, she first picked up the fiddle at the age of 6. She spent summers at various fiddle camps throughout the country, honing her craft with many masters of fiddle and garnered many awards in her youth at Scottish Fiddle competitions. Jenna received a scholarship to attend Berklee College of Music in 2009, where she studied with Darol Anger, Matt Glaser, Bruce Molsky, and Mark Simos. During her years at Berklee, Jenna received the Fletcher Bright Award and the American Roots Music Award, both given annually to an outstanding fiddler. She graduated with honors from Berklee in 2013 with a degree in Violin Performance and a minor in American Roots Music. She has performed in the US, Canada, France, and Scotland with various groups including Folk Arts Quartet, Atlantic Seaway, Darol Anger's Republic of String's, Bonnie Loch Fiddlers & more. In 2012, Jenna was invited to participate in the first-ever Acoustic Music Seminar in Savannah, Georgia, which brought together the new wave of acoustic musicians alongside many accomplished veterans, including Edgar Meyer, Zakir Hussein, Chris Thile, Tony Trischka & more. Also in 2012, Jenna performed alongside the world-renowned classical-crossover soprano, Hayley Westenra and the Boston Pops at Symphony Hall.

Eric Law is a punk rock cellist with an old time soul. He also happens to write some songs.He begins his cello studies with his father at age six. By age thirteen he throws himself into a fit of rebellion against the restrictions of classical training, picks up the bass guitar, and starts a loveable rock and roll band with three of his best friends. They play in church basements on Saturday nights, and the girls adore them.
Though he dabbles passionately with this, Eric maintains a fond and truthful relationship with his cello. Something about the two of them is functionally magical, and Eric fosters a yearning to pursue, via music, the timeless American image of the man on the front porch, cabin in the mountains, straw between his teeth, his dog or his llama or his yak taking a poignant and breath-heavy nap in the shade of the pine in the front yard.Eric attends the Berklee College of Music in Boston, graduating in the spring of 2013. Here, Eric studies with cello powerhouses Eugene Friesen and Mike Block, and fiddling legends Matt Glaser, Bruce Molsky, and Darol Anger. Eric takes these traditional American music influences and lassos the delightful twang of dusty boots and moonshine together with the denim jacket, thick-rimmed glasses musical aesthetic of 90’s alt rock. He takes his leather boots with him to the moon and back.In addition to his solo career, Eric currently performs with Darol Anger’s Republic of Strings, We Avalanche, and Jen Starsinic. He is a first-prize winner of the 2013 ASTA Eclectic String Festival. He is the primary cello instructor at the Colorado-based C*ASTA String Camp, and he teaches at clinics nation-wide. In the spring of 2014, Eric will be performing as a soloist with the Boston Ballet. In the coming year, his followers can anticipate both his first solo record and his second record with the poetic and rocked-out We Avalanche.Eric lives nowhere in search of fans and friends, old and new, across the country. All these powerful presences are brought into synchronization and orbit around Anger’s vision and that unmistakable violin voice. When these powerful forces get together with Darol, the result is mythical, magical, musical mayhem.

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