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Team USA (from left: Nzingha Prescod, Sabrina Massialas, Nicole Ross, and Lee Kiefer) in 2015 Kiefer was born in Cleveland, Ohio and grew up in Lexington, Kentucky. [5] Her mother Teresa, a psychiatrist, was born in Pilar, Capiz, Philippines and immigrated to the U.S. as a child, and her father Steve, a neurosurgeon, once captained the Duke University fencing team.
The band appeared with such bluegrass performers as Bill Monroe, Ralph Stanley, Del McCoury, and New Grass Revival. [3] Sharon was playing a Kentucky F5 copy by this time; by fourteen, she was playing an R.L. Givens F5 copy. The Blue Night Express band lasted for nearly seven years and Sharon played with the band from age nine to sixteen.
Vassar Carlton Clements (April 25, 1928 [1] – August 16, 2005 [2]) was an American jazz, swing, and bluegrass fiddler.Clements has been dubbed the Father of Hillbilly Jazz, an improvisational style that blends and borrows from swing, hot jazz, and bluegrass along with roots also in country and other musical traditions. [3]
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Other key fiddlers in bluegrass include: Chubby Wise - Played with Monroe. Also a Texas Swing player. [6] Kenny Baker - Originally a swing fiddler, Baker played with Monroe from 1957 to 1984, the longest tenure of any band member. He is considered one of the most influential bluegrass fiddlers, and is famous for his smooth, "long-bow" style.
Lynn Morris (born October 8, 1948) is an American bluegrass musician. Morris was raised in Lamesa, Texas, [1] where she learned to play piano at the age of 6 and guitar at the age of 11. [2] She went to Colorado College and graduated with a degree in art. The following year she began to play the banjo. [3]
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