Chris Daring – For Texas Style Fiddle!

Welcome! Welcome! Welcome! You have arrived at my new website, at my new web address. What was texasfiddling.com is now texasfiddle.pro.

As the 1996 National Adult Fiddling Champion and the featured performer of American fiddle music during a private reception for the 1997 Summit of the Eight, I offer the finest in Texas Style Fiddle instruction the old fashioned way, meaning face-to-face in my studio; and a newly fashioned way, meaning, face-to-face online over the internet.

 Over the years, my family was asked by the Clinton White House to provide the music for the private dinner party of world leaders and their wives at the 1997 Summit of the Eight Conference in Denver, Colorado, and I was fortunate to receive the Master Artist in fiddling designation by The Colorado Council on the Arts and The National Endowment for the Arts. I have performed at locations and occasions such as: the 1998 Baseball All Star Game owners party, the New Mexico State Fair, and my family served as goodwill ambassadors and historical representatives for Central City, Colorado during the summer of 1995.

In addition to the hundreds of private students I’ve taught over the years, I’ve also taught fiddling as an adjunct faculty member for the University of Southern Colorado, the University of Colorado at Denver, and administered the entire strings program at the Denver Waldorf School for nine years.

My Teachers and Student Success

The front of the CD featuring my family

Among my private fiddle students, one is the 2011 and 2010 National Junior Junior Champion, and one is the 2008 National Junior Junior Champion; another student is the 1998 National Junior Champion and the 2000 Young Adult Champion; two different students have become National Senior Champions and then National Senior Senior Champions. More than thirty students have become Colorado State Fiddling Champions in their respective age groups, several have become Regional Champions, and more than forty have placed in the upper 25% in the Junior Division at the National Fiddling Championships in Weiser, Idaho.

My primary teachers are members of the Texas Fiddlers Hall of Fame: Terry and Dale Morris. Terry, who passed away in 1988, was a Featured Star at the Grand Ole Opry in 1976, and Texas State Fiddle Champion; Dale is a former member of the “Sons of the Pioneers” who also performed with Bill Monroe and Ray Price among numerous other recognizable musicians.

Fiddler Magazine featured me in their summer 2003 issue; and an article about my family and me can be found at Westword Magazine’s site.

My Recordings

In 1988, I recorded an all-instrumental album with the Nashville Superpickers. Surrounded by wonderful musicians, we set out to make some really pretty and enduring music together: Dale Morris, my first fiddle teacher, along with Lloyd Green, the most recorded steel guitar player in history, Pig Robbins, Country Music Association Instrumentalist of the Year, Jack Solomon on guitar, Henry Stryzlecki on bass, and Roy Yeager, drummer from the Atlantic Rhythm Section, all join me here on Hummingbird Reel.

In 1992, I again went to Nashville; this time to do vocal recordings with some members of the Garth Brooks’ studio band: Hottest Ex in Texas. In 1997, I recorded an all-acoustic album with my family. The iTunes link will take you to “Durang’s Hornpipe and the rest of the album. One of the songs features Noel playing “Apple Blossoms”. .

And for fun, this next one is an old blues song we performed before a lot of audiences called Devil’s Gonna Get You. Erick, our multi-talented son played all the instruments on this recording of Milk Cow Blues.

Beginner, intermediate, and advanced sheet music (including sound files) for what will eventually become a large library of arrangements for fiddle tunes, as well as classical violin pieces and theory/agility studies is currently available for purchase by email, and will soon be available here at the website.

I have a new email address as well as the new website; it is, chris@texasfiddle.pro. For any of you trying to reach my husband Andy by email, his new address is, andy@texasfiddle.pro. He sometimes uses ad@texasfiddle.pro, either way will work.

Over the years, we have gathered hundreds and hundreds of photographs. To keep you laughing, the galleries, each containing about 25 pictures, will be moved, rotated, and replaced every week or so. The gallery on this page consists of my family and some friends; other galleries are on different pages around the site.  Hope you enjoy them. As always with websites, follow the links scattered about, and please stop by often.

The Bow Genie