Byron Berline
Sign in to saveAmerican fiddle player (1944–2021)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1944-07-06
- Died
- 2021-07-10
- Works
- 1
Top works
- Fiddling Thru The Years
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- 4,717
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- 17,661
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Berline was born 6 July 1944 in rural northern Oklahoma, near the border with Kansas. He started playing the fiddle at a very young age and quickly developed a remarkable talent for it. He graduated from the University of Oklahoma in the mid 1960s and moved to Southern California in 1969. In 1970, Berline won the National Oldtime Fiddle Contest Championship in Weiser, Idaho. Berline went on to win two more titles. In many of the competitions he attended in Weiser, younger virtuoso Mark O'Connor
Key dates
- Born
- 6 July 1944
- Died
- 10 July 2021
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Douglas
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Caldwell
- Place of death
- Oklahoma City
- Occupation
- musician
- Educated at
- University of Oklahoma
- Genre
- bluegrass music
- Instrument
- fiddle
Connections
Categories
1944 births2021 deaths20th-century American fiddlers21st-century American fiddlersAmerican bluegrass fiddlersAmerican country singer-songwritersBlue Grass Boys membersCountry musicians from OklahomaPeople from Caldwell, KansasPeople from Guthrie, OklahomaSinger-songwriters from KansasSinger-songwriters from Oklahoma