Darol Anger & Mike Marshall

Acoustic music in far left field

by James M. Manheim

posted 9/1/2007

Darol Anger and Mike Marshall play music that starts at the meeting point of bluegrass and jazz — and can find its way into a classical concert hall without too much trouble. The genre doesn't really have a name apart from the barely informative "new acoustic music," but banjoist Bela Fleck has shown that it can pack a hall. A small group of

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