Byron Berline (born July 6, 1944 Caldwell, Kansas) is an American fiddle player. He is widely considered one of the world's preeminent fiddle players and is also one of the most significant figures in contemporary bluegrass music.
Berline started playing the fiddle at age five and quickly developed a talent for it. In 1965, he recorded the album Pickin' and Fiddlin' with the Dillards. The same year, he met Bill Monroe at the Newport Folk Festival...
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Byron Berline (born July 6, 1944 Caldwell, Kansas) is an American fiddle player. He is widely considered one of the world's preeminent fiddle players and is also one of the most significant figures in contemporary bluegrass music.
Berline started playing the fiddle at age five and quickly developed a talent for it. In 1965, he recorded the album Pickin' and Fiddlin' with the Dillards. The same year, he met Bill Monroe at the Newport Folk Festival and was offered a job with the Bluegrass Boys but he turned it down because he had to finish his education. He was graduated from the University of Oklahoma in 1967, with a teaching degree in Physical Education, and joined the Bluegrass Boys shortly after.
In September 1967, he was drafted by the U.S. Army. After his discharge, two years later, he joined Dillard & Clark on the album Through the Morning, Through the Night. In 1969, he moved to Southern California. Berline won the National Oldtime Fiddle Contest Championship in 1970 in Weiser,...
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