Strings For Industry ...strings for the dead.

An all-star band spiralling up out of the rich caffeinated brew that is the music community of Portland, Oregon. Too famous to be "local" but residents just the same, Portland's very own all-star team of nationally-known talent has coalesced as Strings For Industry. Musical legends Darol Anger (violin) and Carlton Jackson (percussion) team with acknowledged monsters Scott Law (guitar) and Tye North (bass), and with special guests such as S4i co-founder Tony Furtado, to deliver a musical experience embracing the length, breadth and depth of American Music. In the great tradition of groups like The Band and NRBQ, this band covers it all with their original songs and re-creations of classics. Industrial Strength Rhythm & Bluesgrass!

Violinist, fiddler, composer, producer and educator, DAROL ANGER is at home in a number of musical genres, some of which he helped to invent. He developed his signature sound through working with many of the world's great improvising string musicians, among them Stephane Grappelli, Mark O'Connor, Bela Fleck, Tony Rice, David Grisman and Vassar Clements. His current group, The Republic Of Strings, breaks new territory for bowed string instruments and presents young talent. With the jazz-oriented Turtle Island String Quartet, Anger developed and popularized new techniques for playing contemporary music on string instruments. His groups The Fiddlers 4, Psychograss, and the Anger-Marshall Duo feature his compositions and arrangements. His group Montreux was the original musical model for the New Adult Contemporary radio format. Darol was a co-founder of The David Grisman Quintet which forged a new genre of acoustic string band music with Darol's "fertile inventiveness, surprising touches and technical mastery" often in the forefront. Anger has produced dozens of critically lauded recordings since 1977 which have featured his compositions and performances. "Darol Anger is the sort of musician who refuses to concede that musical boundaries even exist. Surrounding himself with up-and-coming musicians of the absolute top rank, Anger has upped the ante of string-band music almost off the charts." - Amazon.com


SCOTT LAW embodies the ideal of the American Guitar Master; a brilliant and versatile electric guitarist, Law has connected onstage with many contemporary masters of Americana music, among them Phil Lesh and friends, Melvin Seals, String Cheese Incident, Leftover Salmon, David Grisman, Darol Anger, Steve Kimock, The Motet, Peter Rowan, Yonder Mountain, etc. Scott has perfected a style which bears his unique stamp yet freely ranges over the entire history of rock and jazz guitar.

He is a prolific songwriter, composer and singer. Strings For Industry, Honkytonk Homeslice and The Piano Throwers showcase both his songs and improvising virtuosity. Scott is in demand all over the west coast and Rocky Mountain states not only for these talents, but for his abilities on acoustic guitar and mandolin. Scott has scored and performed music for film and television, including an original song for the CBS primetime feature "Viva Laughlin" in 2007, and recent scores for 2 full- length documentaries by The Columbia Land Trust and Tom's Of Maine. He is a dedicated music educator, and has taught privately and at the Puget Sound Guitar Workshop since 1984.


The LA Times has described CARLTON JACKSON's drumming as "intensely musical." This phrase also perfectly describes Carlton, a nationally known first call musician. His incisive mastery of various music genres has generated work in live performance, feature films, television and radio. Carlton has worked with jazz greats Tom Grant and Leroy Vinnegar, Billy Eckstine, Bo Diddley, Jerry Hahn, Maryann Price, Mark Isham, Jim Pepper, Bobby Torres, James Cotton, Houston Person, actor Bruce Willis, Melissa Walker, Dianne Schuur, Larry Coryell, Danny Barnes, Bill Frisell, Dan Siegel, and Gordon Lee. Carlton has also worked under the batons of conductors Pete Rugolo, Norman Leyden and James DePreist. Dan Balmer and Terry Robb, Blues/R&B singers D.K.Stewart and Curtis Salgado, country-pop singer Toni Land and iconoclastic composer Jon Newton.


A Portland, Oregon native, bassist TYE NORTH toured all over the US with Leftover Salmon for 7 years. He recording three records with them, featuring guests Bela Fleck, Waylon Jennings, Earl Scruggs, and Lucinda Williams. Tye has performed and collaborated with Victor Wooten, Paul McCandless, Mike Kang, Sam Bush, Karl Denson, Robert Walter, Jessica Lurie, Darol Anger, Taj Mahal, Future Man, Wally Ingram, Jeff Coffin, and Bruce Hampton. He has taken part in and promoted concerts for the Annual Zambiland Orchestra, held by beloved drummer Jeff Sipe. He recorded and toured with the group Comotion, featuring Mike Kang, Darol Anger, Mike Marshall, Paul McCandless, Jeff Sipe, and Aaron Johnston.