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Contents 1 stubs needed 1.1 American 1.1.1 Bluegrass 1.1.2 Cajun 1.1.3 Creole 1.1.4 New England 1.1.5 Old time 1.1.5.1 Appalachian 1.2 Argentine 1.3 Canadian 1.3.1 What region? 1.3.2 French-Canadian/Quebecois 1.3.3 Scotch-Canadian/Cape Breton 1.4 English 1.5 Hungarian 1.6 Irish 1.6.1 What region? 1.6.2 Clare 1.6.3 Donegal 1.6.4 Sligo 1.7 Scottish 1.8 General Celtic 1.9 Dunno 2 other additions needed 2.1 Genre needed 2.2 Genre and country needed

[edit] stubs needed

[edit] American

• Kevin Wimmer ("cajun/old time/bluegrass")
• Lonnie Chatmon of the Mississippi Sheiks)
• Betse Ellis ("old time/country)

seconded by Just Plain Bob

[edit] Bluegrass

• Jim Brock (musician)
• James Earl Bryan
• Jimmy Buchanan
• Jason Carter (musician)
• Curley Ray Cline
• Randall Collins (musician)
• Stewart Duncan
• Howdy Forrester
• Red Hayes
• "Hoot" Hester
• Herb Hooven
• Bryant Houston
• Tommy Jackson (musician)
• Bobby Joe Lester
• Tex Logan
• Gene Lowinger
• Mac Magaha

seconded by Just Plain Bob

• Joe Meadows
• Paul Mullins
• Lonnie Pierce
• Dale Potter (musician)
• Randy Powell (musician)
• Buck Ryan (musician)
• Jim Shumate
• Benny Sims
• Charlie Smith (musician)
• Blaine Sprouse
• Art Stamper

seconded by Just Plain Bob

• Red Stanley
• Joe Stuart

seconded by Just Plain Bob

• Hal Smith (musician)
• Clarence "Tater" Tate
• Merle "Red" Taylor
• Tommy Vaden
• Paul Warren
• Benny Williams
• Tommy Williams (musician)
• Chubby Wise
• Art Wooten

seconded by Just Plain Bob

[edit] Cajun

• Sady Courville
• Wade Fruge
• Edward Poullard
• Joel Savoy
• Kevin Wimmer (of the The Red Stick Ramblers

[edit] Creole

• D'Jalma Garnier III

[edit] New England

• Sam Amidon
• Sarah Blair
• Ruthie Dornfeld
• David Kaynor
• Dudley Laufman

seconded by eitch (for major role in the 70's contra dance revival more than for being a fiddler)

• Randy Miller
• Rodney Miller

seconded by eitch (NEA Master Fiddler, introduced jazz influence to NE fiddling)

• Lissa Schneckenburger
• Sue Sternberg
• Harvey Tolman
• Becky Tracy

[edit] Old time

• Henry Reed (musician)

seconded by eitch (major old time tune source, via Library of Congress thanks to Alan Jabour)

• Bob Holt (musician)
• John Grimm (musician)(+ [[Category:Georgia (U.S. state) musicians]])

[edit] Appalachian

• Charlie Acuff
• Owen "Snake" Chapman
• Clyde Davenport

seconded by eitch (major source, through Jeff Todd Titon, of Kentucky fiddle style info)

• Benton Flippen
• John Thomas Fowler (w/ link to http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4571982556680325254&q=fiddle+john&pr=goog-sl/)
• Bruce Greene

seconded by eitch (important, according to Jeff Todd Titon; Titon provides a stub's worth of bio)

• Clark Kessinger
• Doc Roberts
• John Morgan Salyer
• Hiram Stamper

[edit] Argentine

• Peteco Carabajal

seconded by Just Plain Bob

• Néstor Garnica
• Leandro Lovato
• Fernando Matos

[edit] Canadian

[edit] What region?

• Shane Cook
• Janelle Dupuis
• Tania Elizabeth
• Ivonne Hernandez
• Crystal Plohman
• Calvin Vollrath
• Mark Sullivan (musician)

[edit] French-Canadian/Quebecois

• Louis Beaudoin
• Jos Bouchard
• Louis "Pitou" Boudreault
• Olivier Demers
• Omer Dumas
• Pascal Gemme
• Joseph-Ovila La Madeleine
• Ti-Blanc Richard
• Jean-Marie Verret

[edit] Scotch-Canadian/Cape Breton

• Joseph Cormier

seconded by eitch (important in bringing Cape Breton fiddling to US (Boston))

• Alex Francis MacKay

[edit] English

• Lisa Knapp
• William "Jinky" Wells

[edit] Hungarian

• Beata Salamon (w/link to metabeja.googlepages.com)

[edit] Irish

[edit] What region?

• Martin Byrnes
• Janet Carter
• Matt Cranitch
• Oisin Mac Diarmada
• Paddy Fahey
• Fred Finn
• Ronan Galvin
• Kevin Glackin
• Séamus Glackin
• Michael Gorman (musician)
• Cathal Hayden
• Liz & Yvonne Kane
• Brian Larissey
• Charlie Lennon
• Oisin McAuley
• Séamus McGuire
• Manus McGuire
• Mairéad Nesbitt
• Desmond O'Halloran
• Siobhan Peoples
• Megan Power
• Ciaran Tourish
• Niall Valley
• John Vesey (musician)
• Martin Wynne

[edit] Clare

• Paddy Canny
• Bobby Casey
• Junior Crehan
• Mrs. Ellen Galvin
• P.J. Hayes

seconded by eitch: an important figure

• John Kelly
• Martin Rochford

[edit] Donegal

• Neillidh Ó Baoighill

seconded by eitch (major figure of the old guard)

• James Byrne

seconded by eitch (popularly known fiddler in Donegal, considered by many there to be the great modern proponent of the traditional Donegal style)

• Vincent Campbell
• Danny O'Donnell
• Proinnsias Ó Mhaonaigh
• Paul O'Shaughnessy

seconded by eitch (one-time Altan fiddler)

[edit] Sligo

• Kathleen Collins

[edit] Scottish

• Charlie McKerron (musician) (and link Charlie McKerron to the stub)

[edit] General Celtic

• The KilBride Brothers ("cape breton/irish/scottish/shetland/welsh")
• Michael Kissinger ("folk/celtic")
• Dirk Powell ("cajun/old time/irish")
• Andy Reiner ("old time/swedish/cape breton/bluegrass/metal")
• Adam Sweet ("celtic")

[edit] Dunno

• Fred Carpenter
• EJ Oullette ("rad-trad")

seconded by Just Plain Bob

• Jackson Gaydon ("folk/pop")
• James Kelly
• Patty Kusturok
• PB Ploy ("rock/pop/folk")
• Shoji Tabuchi
• Paul Warren

[edit] other additions needed

[edit] Genre needed

• Andy Carlson (Georgia + Ohio champ... so, Southern? Or a new Midwestern (supported by Old-time music#Midwest?)
• Casey Driessen (Scottish? - but currently the Scottish category is entirely fiddlers from Scotland)
• Laura Risk (Scottish - but see directly above)
• Jay Ungar (appalachian?)

[edit] Genre and country needed

• Andrew Bird (genre?)