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  Alison Krauss

  Alison Maria Krauss (born July 23, 1971) is an American bluegrass-country singer, songwriter and fiddler. She entered the music industry at an early age, winning local contests by the age of ten and recording for the first time at fourteen. She signed with Rounder Records in 1985 and released her...
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  Eyvind Kang

  Eyvindur (Eyvind) Kang (pronounced 'Kong') (b. Corvallis, Oregon, United States, 1971), only child of Charles Shin-Chul Kang and Kristjana Gunnars, is an American composer, violinist, tuba, and erhu player. He was raised in Canada and the United States, and has since lived and worked in countries...
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  Martie Maguire

  Martie Maguire (born Martha Elenor Erwin; October 12, 1969) is an American songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and a founding member of the female alternative country band, the Dixie Chicks. She won awards in national fiddle championships while still a teenager. Maguire is accomplished on several...
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  Darol Anger

  Darol Anger is an American violinist, born in 1953. Darol Anger entered popular music at the age of 21 as a founding member of The David Grisman Quintet. Anger played fiddle to David Grisman's mandolin in The David Grisman Quintet's (DGQ) 1977 debut. He co-founded the Turtle Island String Quartet...
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  Ian McKellen

  Sir Ian Murray McKellen, CH, CBE (born 25 May 1939) is an English actor. He has won multiple Laurence Olivier Awards, a Tony Award, two Academy Award nominations, and five Emmy Award nominations. His work has spanned genres from Shakespearean and modern theatre to popular fantasy and science...

• Donald Charles Frederick Messer

  Donald Charles Frederick (Don) Messer (May 9, 1909 - March 26, 1973) was a Canadian musician and defining icon of folk music during the 1960s. Born in Tweedside, New Brunswick, Messer began playing the violin at age five, learning fiddle tunes with Irish and Scottish influences. As a young boy,...

• Tommy Jarrell

  Tommy Jarrell (born Thomas Jefferson Jarrell, March 1, 1901 Surry County, North Carolina, died January 28, 1985) was an American fiddler, banjo player, and singer from the Mount Airy region of North Carolina's Appalachian Mountains. Although he made his living from road construction (operating a...

• Melvin Wine

  Melvin Wine (April 20, 1909 - March 16, 2003) was an American old-time fiddler from the state of West Virginia. He lived in Copen, in Braxton County, West Virginia. Wine was a recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts's National Heritage Fellowship (the U.S.'s highest award presented to...