Bob Holt (fiddler) explained

Bob Holt
Birth Date:	25 November 1930
Birth Place:	Ava, Missouri
Death Place:	Ava, Missouri
Genre:	Old-time music
Occupation:	Musician
Instrument:	Fiddle
Years Active:	1947–2004
Label:	Rounder

Bob Holt was an American fiddler, playing old-time and for square dances. He was known for his lightning-fast, energetic style of playing. He played his signature song "Ninth of January" at as much as 144 beats per minute while playing for dances.^[1] He was born on November 25, 1930, in Ava, Douglas County, Missouri.^[2] He died March 19, 2004, in Ava.

Holt was a recipient of a 1999 National Heritage Fellowship in the amount of $10,000^[3] from the National Endowment for the Arts, which is the United States' highest honor in the folk and traditional arts.^[4]

Recordings

• Rabbit in the Pea Patch (cassette tape)
• The Way I Heard It (cassette tape)
• Got a Little Home to Go Tohttp://www.mustrad.org.uk/reviews/b_holt.htm http://www.rounder.com/index.php?id=album.php&catalog_id=5815 Rounder, 1998 CD 0432

He appears on:

• Jump Fingers, a tape by the Childgrove Country Dancers.
• Face the Creek, a CD produced by the Childgrove Country Dancers.
• Traditional Fiddle Music of the Ozarks: Volume I: Along the Eastern Crescent, Rounder, 1999 (CDROUN0435 / 018964443528)
• North American Traditions: The Art of Traditional Fiddle http://www.rambles.net/rounder_tradfiddle.html Rounder, 1999

External links

• Library of Congress-local legacies
• biography
• autobiography

Notes and References

1. Book: Marshall, Howard Wight . 2017 . Lonnie Robertson. Fiddler's Dream: Old-Time, Swing, and Bluegrass Fiddling in Twentieth-Century Missouri . Columbia, MO . University of Missouri Press . 64. 978-0-8262-2121-6. 2017933621.
2. Book: Govenar, Alan . 2001 . Bob Holt: Anglo-American Ozark Fiddler. Masters of Traditional Arts: A Biographical Dictionary . 1 (A-J). Santa Barbara, CA . ABC-Clio . 277–278. 1576072401. 47644303.
3. Web site: Ozarks Fiddler Honored with Heritage Fellowship . . 1999 . www.morninmail.com . Heritage Publishing . 10 November 2017.
4. Web site: NEA National Heritage Fellowships 1999 . . www.arts.gov . National Endowment for the Arts . December 30, 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200521115137/https://www.arts.gov/honors/heritage/year/1999 . May 21, 2020 . dead.