Country Artist Kenny Baker

Best known for his 25-year tenure with Bill Monroe and his group The Blue Grass Boys as a fiddle player. As well as a performer, Baker was also a composer of many popularly played Bluegrass fiddle tunes. Baker was a recipient of a 1993 National Heritage Fellowship awarded by the National Endowment for the Arts, which is the highest honor in the folk and traditional arts in the United States. He was named to the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Honor in 1999.