ABOUT THIS EPISODE
Steeped in fiddle music from her earliest days, Sharon Bounds is a champion fiddler. She takes us inside the world of contest fiddling to hear breakdowns, waltzes, and rags, the importance of improvisation, and the camaraderie of playing around the circle. And the fiddle has carried Sharon well beyond competition, to playing in the back of the family station wagon, in church and in a bluegrass band, alongside her dad and granddad on Sunday evenings, with Alabama’s million dollar marching band, and even to newborns in the nursery.
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United States
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