Byron Berline performs at the Oklahoma International Bluegrass Festival in 2018.
Oklahoma fiddle player Byron Berline died on Saturday following complications from a stroke. He was 77.
Berline was born in Caldwell, Kansas, but raised in Grant County in northern Oklahoma. The three-time national fiddle champion performed at the Newport Folk Festival and the Grand Ole Opry, and toured extensively throughout the U.S., Europe, China, Japan, Australia and northern Africa.
Berline was a member of The Dillards, Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, Country Gazette, The Flying Burrito Brothers, Sundance and more.
He was also a prolific session musician, recording hundreds of songs with the likes of The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Elton John, James Taylor, Emmylou Harris and The Byrds, among others.
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Byron Berline, legendary Oklahoma fiddle player, dead at 77
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