Warren Blair

Musician
Best known for Fiddle

Warren Blair is a fiddler who won one of the most visible contests of the bicentennial year and then spent his career in working bands — the Bluegrass Cardinals, the Del McCoury Band, and Lorraine Jordan’s Carolina Road.

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  • He won the National Bicentennial fiddle contest in Washington, D.C., in 1976.
  • He played with the Bluegrass Cardinals, the California-to-Virginia band that was among the most influential traditional groups of its era.
  • He held the fiddle chair in the Del McCoury Band, a job that requires playing exactly in the pocket behind one of the most rhythmically precise bands in the music.
  • He later worked with Lorraine Jordan and Carolina Road.
  • In this catalog he appears on Bluegrass Cardinals and Del McCoury Band recordings between 1978 and 1990, on fiddle and in the harmony.

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