Stuart Duncan
Stuart Duncan (born April 14, 1964) is an American fiddler raised in Santa Paula, California, and one of the most recorded fiddlers in bluegrass and country music. As a teenager in Southern California he played festivals with his friend Alison Brown. He was a longtime member of the Nashville Bluegrass Band and has been a first-call Nashville session player for decades, appearing on records by artists from Dolly Parton to Robert Plant and Alison Krauss. He has been named IBMA Fiddle Player of the Year many times and won a Grammy for The Goat Rodeo Sessions with Yo-Yo Ma, Edgar Meyer, and Chris Thile.