Jim Shumate
Musician · 1921–2013
Best known for
Fiddle
Jim Shumate was an American bluegrass fiddler, one of the founding fiddlers of the genre.
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- Born in 1921 in Wilkes County, North Carolina.
- Played with Bill Monroe and His Blue Grass Boys in the mid-1940s and recommended the young Earl Scruggs to Monroe.
- Joined Flatt and Scruggs's Foggy Mountain Boys and fiddled on the band's first recordings.
- Helped establish the bluegrass fiddle kickoff and received the North Carolina Folk Heritage Award. He died in 2013.
