"The ultimate American fiddle jam."
- Dirty Linen

"A remarkable musical melange."
- Strings Magazine

Call it Cajun, call it old-timey, call it jazz or new music. Regardless of the label one thing is for sure: it's a new vernacular in American string band music!

Fiddlers 4 is a gathering of some of today's most celebrated fiddlers. Michael Doucet is well loved for his work as the leader of Cajun supergroup BeauSoleil; Darol Anger, a veteran of the David Grisman Quintet and founding member of the Turtle Island String Quartet, is the leading exponent of jazz-hued newgrass; and Bruce Molsky is internationally revered as a leading old time fiddler. Together with hot newcomer cellist Rushad Eggleston, the foursome offer a cross-cultural fiddling extravaganza, with stops in the Louisiana bayou, the Appalachian mountains and the Marin foothills.

The Debut CD "FIDDLERS 4"
March 2002 from Compass Records

tracks: Pickin' The Devil's Eye • You Little Wild Thing (La Bétaille) • E. St. Louis Todail • Hidirassirifo • Just A Closer Walk With Thee / I Know • Chez Seychelles • I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free • African Solstice • Man Of Constant Sorrow • Mazurka / Acadian Two-Step • Greek Medley / Polly Put The Kettle On • Danse Caribe • Atchafalaya Pipeline ... more >>

Rosebud Agency Artists Score Grammy Nominations in World, Folk, Blues and Gospel Categories
January 2003, Rosebud News

Once again this year, Rosebud artists have been nominated for Grammys in a variety of categories.

Rubén Blades’ Mundo CD has been nominated as Best World Music Album. The Blind Boys of Alabama follow their Grammy win for Spirit of the Century with a nomination for Best Traditional Soul Gospel Album for this year’s Higher Ground. Charlie Musselwhite’s One Night In America is nominated for Best Contemporary Blues Album. Charlie also contributes a track to Preachin' The Blues: The Music Of Mississippi Fred McDowell which is nominated in the Best Traditional Blues album category. Fiddler’s 4 (Bruce Molsky, Michael Doucet, Darol Anger & Rushad Eggleston) are nominated in the category of Best Traditional Folk Album for their debut eponymous CD. Also nominated in the same category is Evangeline Made produced by Ann Savoy of the Savoy-Doucet Cajun Band. Ann performs a track on the CD with Linda Ronstadt as well as one with Savoy Doucet backed by a rhythm section featuring Sonny Landreth on guitar. Also, Tony Bennett's "Playing With My Friends" (the title song was co-written by Robert Cray) was nominated for Best Traditional Pop Album.

The Grammys will be awarded February 23 in New York City.
Grammy.com >>

The week of April 20-27, Fiddlers 4 appeared on Prairie Home Companion and other NPR shows. Check out these great RealAudio interviews with Darol Anger, Michael Doucet and the guys on ...

A Prairie Home Companion - April 20, 2002 >>
Live from the Town Hall in New York City, with US Poet Laureate Billy Collins, English folk singer Kate Rusby and Fiddlers 4.

NPR: All Things Considered with Korva Coleman - April 20, 2002 >>
A trio of well-known fiddlers -- one from a Cajun band, one from a bluegrass band, and one from a classical quartet -- got together with a cellist to blur the lines between their musical worlds. The result is a new album called Fiddlers 4. Host Korva Coleman talks about the music with two of the fiddlers: Darol Anger of the Turtle Island String Quartet, and Michael Doucet of Beausoleil.
NPR: On Point host, Tom Ashbrook -- combining a journalist's instincts with a listener's openness and curiosity -- focuses in on the relevant issues in any given story, decoding news and issues along with the listeners. News Analyst Jack Beatty, a Senior Editor at The Atlantic Monthly, adds his own unique perspective to each night's conversation.

Guest Fiddlers 4 >> (RealAudio required)