Howdy Forrester
Musician · 1922–1987
Best known for
Fiddle
Howard “Howdy” Forrester was an American fiddler, known for his long association with Roy Acuff and his earlier work with Bill Monroe and His Blue Grass Boys. He played in an ornate, Texas-influenced long-bow style.
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- Born in 1922 in Hickman County, Tennessee.
- Played fiddle with Bill Monroe and His Blue Grass Boys in the early 1940s.
- Joined Roy Acuff and His Smoky Mountain Boys in 1951 and remained Acuff's fiddler for decades.
- Was known among musicians as a master of the show-fiddle style and was sometimes called “the Fritz Kreisler of country fiddlers.”
- Later helped manage the Acuff-Rose artists' agency.
- Was posthumously inducted into the National Fiddler Hall of Fame.
- Died in 1987.
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Lester Flatt and Mac WisemanPlayed on recordings with Lester Flatt and Mac Wiseman
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Flatt & ScruggsPlayed on recordings with Flatt & Scruggs
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The Stanley BrothersPlayed on recording with The Stanley Brothers
