Mason Daring is a composer, musician, producer, and author who makes his home in both Marblehead, MA and Pawlet, VT. In addition to composing scores for film and TV he performs occasionally with Jeanie Stahl, writes a column for the Marblehead Reporter under the sobriquet Weary Pilgrim, and is working on a first novel of crime fiction.

Anyone who knows the films of John Sayles will have heard a lot of Mason Daring's music, though perhaps without realising it. This isn't because Daring's scores are colourless or undistinguished - quite the reverse, indeed.

Sep 4, 2001 · Film composer Mason Daring has explored many paths on the way to his current career -entertainment lawyer, folk singer, cabbie and truck driver, and commercial film director. But his professional life has always returned to the world of music.

AS ARTIST MASON DARING & JEANIE STAHL: The Early Years Daring CD 3006 MASON DARING & JEANIE STAHL: Sweet Melodies In The Night Daring LP/CS 1006 (out of print) MASON DARING & JEANIE STAHL: Heartbreak Philo 1079 (out of print)

Mason Daring is a noted film and TV composer and Jeanie Stahl a premier vocalist. In the 70's the Boston Globe dubbed them the "darlings of the folk scene." They recorded two albums together and garnered national attention with Mason's original song, Marblehead Morning.

Guitarist-turned-film-composer Mason Daring was sitting in front of the producer, director and music supervisor of a brand-new feature project, trying to work up usable theme music with string sounds from a Syn-clavier rig in a posh Hollywood studio.

Mason Daring's nearly 20 years as a professional composer have yielded truly diverse credits. He is in the enviable position of being the composer of choice for one of America's premiere filmmakers, the independent writer/director John Sayles.

Oct 26, 2020 · Weary Pilgrim is the writings of Mason Daring a film composer, singer/songwriter, producer

Overlooking the Atlantic shoreline in picturesque Marblehead, Massachusetts, Mason Daring's project studio couldn't be more visually stimulating on the outside.

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