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Baker teamed with Graves until Graves' death in 2006. Baker is considered to be one of the most influential fiddlers in bluegrass music. His "long-bow" style added a smoothness and clarity to the fiddle-based music of his boss, Grand Ole Opry member Bill Monroe. His long tenure with Bill Monroe included banjo player Bill Keith 's development of ...
1940s-1970s. Thomas Lee "Tommy" Jackson Jr. (March 31, 1926 – December 9, 1979) was an American fiddle player, regarded as "one of the finest commercial fiddle players of all time". [ 1] He played on hundreds of country records from the 1940s to the 1970s, and it has been claimed that he "has probably been heard on more country records than ...
Old time (also spelled old-time or oldtime) fiddle is the style of American fiddling found in old-time music. Old time fiddle tunes are derived from European folk dance forms such as the jig, reel, breakdown, schottische, waltz, two-step, and polka. When the fiddle is accompanied by banjo, guitar, mandolin, or other string instruments, the ...
Occupation (s) Bluegrass artist. Instrument (s) Fiddle. Years active. 1933-1977. Paul Warren (May 17, 1918 –January 12, 1978) was an American fiddle player best known for his work on a number of Kitty Wells singles, and his long tenure with Flatt and Scruggs and the Foggy Mountain Boys. [2]
Fiddler, musician. Instrument (s) Fiddle, banjo. Years active. 1953–2024. Robert Caldwell Hicks (July 21, 1933 – August 16, 2024) was a Grammy Award -winning American bluegrass fiddler and musician with more than fifty years of experience. He was inducted into the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame in 2017.
Eileen Ivers on stage in Lorient, Brittany in 2003. Eileen Ivers (born July 13, 1965) is an American fiddler. Ivers was born in New York City of Irish-born parents, grew up in the Bronx and attended St. Barnabas High School. [ 1] She spent summers in Ireland and took up the fiddle at the age of nine. Her teacher was the Irish fiddler Martin ...
Howard was the first prize fiddler at the inaugural Tri-State Bluegrass Association fiddle contest in 1982. [3] He worked as a session musician in Nashville beginning in 1990. He played with many well-known musicians and bands, including George Jones and Ricky Skaggs. [4] He continued to win many fiddle contests. [5] [6] [7] [8]
Musician, Music teacher, composer. Instrument (s) Fiddle. Years active. - 1991. Tom (Tammy) Anderson MBE (1910–1991) was a Scottish fiddler, teacher, composer and collector of traditional tunes. He has been described as "...the most prominent personality in the entire history of Shetland fiddling."