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99 year old fiddler blows everyone away with Opry performance
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From CountryRebel.com

Grand ole opry Songs | 99-Year-Old Fiddler Player Blows Everyone Away With Opry Performance | Country Music VideosImage EnlargerViolet Brumley Hensley, also known as the "Whittling Fiddler," has been a musician for most her life, a fact made apparent every single occasion she takes stage.  At 99 years of age, Violet completely blows away the audience with her performance on the Opry stage. With each and every stroke of her fiddle the almost century long experience shows through.

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When the work's all done and the sun's settin' low,

I pull out my fiddle and I rosin up the bow.

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Thank y'all @KindaScratchy faw that there video ay were a-feelin' ayy bit awful old this here week.

Because.... some of the people I jam with have been playing music for 30 years and one is only 36 years old!!  Thirty years after I started will make me 88!!

Violinist start date -  May 2013  

Fiddler start date - May 2014

FIDDLE- Gift from a dear friend. A 1930-40 german copy, of a french copy of a Stradivarius.  BOW - $50 carbon fiber. Strings - Dominants with E Pirastro Gold string.

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