2008 Augusta Guest Master Artist Bio


Week 2
Swing Week
Guest Master Artist - Johnny Gimble


Johnny Gimble has worked with such legendary figures as Bob Wills, Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard. He's won five CMA Instrumentalist of the Year awards and received a 1994 NEA National Heritage Fellowship Award from the National Endowment for the Arts--our nation's highest honor in the traditional arts. Also a Grammy winner, he was proclaimed Fiddler of the Year eight times by the Academy of Country Music. Acknowledged as the most talented fiddler ever to work with Bob Wills and The Texas Playboys, Johnny Gimble continues a life-long pursuit of playing with rich tone, perfect timing and exquisite taste. Johnny will be accompanied by his son, Dick Gimble, an ace western swing guitarist, veteran road warrior and session man. For more information, visit www.johnnygimble.com

Johnny Gimble's appearance is presented with support from
the Darden Restaurants Foundation and the NEA.

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