Week 4
Bluegrass Week
Intermediate Bluegrass Fiddle
Buddy Spicher

Mark O'Connor once hailed Buddy Spicher as “The best fiddler I’ve ever
heard!” Spicher got his professional jump start in 1957 on the WWVA Wheeling Jamboree playing twin arrangements in Hank Snow’s band with Chubby Wise, the “original bluegrass fiddler.” With Bill Monroe, Buddy recorded a body of bluegrass classics playing his trademark harmony lines to the likes of Bobby Hicks, Vassar Clements and Kenny Baker. For two decades, Spicher was a first-call session fiddler in Nashville, recording with hundreds of major acts and working with every Nashville Cat imaginable from Atkins to Zinkan. In the 1980’s he joined the Osborne Brothers and toured with Bill Monroe and the Bluegrass Boys. After establishing himself as an ear-trained musician, Buddy taught himself how to read music and landed second chair for violin with the Nashville Symphony Orchestra for a season.  www.buddyspicher.com