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.