An All-Star Line-up in A One-Time Only Concert
Saturday, Nov. 24, 2012 at 8:00 pm
ONE LONGFELLOW SQUARE
181 State Street | Portland, ME
$20 adv | $25 door | All Ages
Tickets: Available online at www.OneLongfellowSquare.com or by calling (207) 761-1757
Ticket link: http://www.onelongfellowsquare.com/Details.asp?ProdID=1530
Portland, Maine - This concert brings together four of the finest musicians found anywhere in the acoustic string world for one night of musical conversations. Darol Anger (fiddle), Joe Walsh (mandolin), Grant Gordy (guitar), and Karl Doty (bass) will draw upon decades of collective experience and mastery of bluegrass, jazz, old time and numerous stringband styles to create a sound uniquely their own.
Wildly adventurous Grammy-nominated fiddler Darol Anger is one of the most influential string players of the past fifty years, and is widely known for his own work as well as his collaborations with Bela Fleck, Willie Nelson, and Tony Rice, amongst many others. Additionally Anger is heard every weekend playing with Earl Scruggs and David Grisman on the theme music to NPR’s Car Talk. Anger currently teaches at the Berklee College of Music in Boston.
Joe “Not the guy from the Eagles” Walsh holds down the mandolin chair in the world-renowned bluegrass band, The Gibson Brothers, with whom he recently won the “Entertainer of the Year” award at the International Bluegrass Music Awards conference, beating out Steve Martin and Alison Krauss. Known for his unerringly tasteful playing and exceptionally fine tone, the Portland, Maine resident has played with John Scofield, Ricky Skaggs, Bela Fleck, and Emmylou Harris, and has recorded with numerous acts including folk-legend Jonathan Edwards, pop-grass darlings Joy Kills Sorrow, and real-life guitar hero Scott Nygaard. Walsh is also on faculty at the Berklee College of Music.
Denver-based Grant Gordy is one of the most creative voices to emerge on the guitar scene in decades. Gordy is the guitarist in the legendary acoustic stringband proving-ground, The David Grisman Quintet, and like his boss, David Griman, Gordy has mastered jazz, bluegrass, and swing styles, and has folded myriad influences and genres into his compelling and incomparable musical voice.
Upright bassist Karl Doty bridges the classical music and bluegrass worlds, and brings his impeccable musicianship to both. A founding member of both the pop-grass band, Joy Kills Sorrow, and the chamber orchestra, A Far Cry, he also frequently performs with A Prairie Home Companion’s Heather Masse and the Grammy Award-winning Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
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