Junior Daugherty

Forest Alton "Junior" Daugherty, Jr (born July 19, 1930 in Alamogordo, Otero County, New Mexico) is a fiddler, guitar player and song writer.He has been ranked among the top five fiddlers in the United States over a fifteen-year period.Daugherty won the New Mexico state fiddling championship eight years, the Southwest Regional Championship, and has been inducted into the New Mexico Fiddler’s Hall of Fame and the Arizona Fiddler's Hall of Fame.Over the last sixty-five years Daugherty has performed around the world at Cowboy poetry events and at Carnegie Hall; with musicians as diverse as Sir Yehudi Menuhin at the First American Violin Congress and Hawaiian fiddler Eddie Kamae; and with distinguished music talents including Mark O’Connor, Aly Bain and Johnny Gimble.In addition, he continues to teach fiddle workshops at the Ashokan Fiddle & Dance Camp.Many of his compositions have been performed and recorded by other artists PERFORMANCE HIGHLIGHTS: