Clyde Davenport Explained

Clyde Davenport
Birth Name:	Clyde Thomas Davenport
Birth Date:	21 October 1921
Birth Place:	Mt. Pisgah, Kentucky^[1]
Origin:	Monticello, Kentucky, U.S.
Death Place:	Monticello, Kentucky, U.S.
Genre:	Old-time
Occupation:	Instrumentalist
Instrument:	Fiddle, banjo

Clyde Thomas Davenport (October 21, 1921 – February 16, 2020) was an American old-time fiddler and banjo player from Monticello, Kentucky.^{[2] [3]}

Davenport was a recipient of a 1992 National Heritage Fellowship awarded by the National Endowment for the Arts, which is the United States government's highest honor in the folk and traditional arts.^[4] He died in February 2020 at the age of 98.^[5]

Notes and References

1. Book: Govenar, Alan . 2001 . Clyde Davenport: Anglo-American Appalachian Fiddler . Masters of Traditional Arts: A Biographical Dictionary . 1 (A-J). Santa Barbara, CA . ABC-Clio . 152–154. 1576072401. 47644303.
2. Web site: Clyde Davenport . Jeff Titon . November 1991. Brown University. March 11, 2010.
3. Web site: Notes: Clyde Davenport . Jeff Titon . June 5, 2008. Field Recorders' Collective. https://web.archive.org/web/20080512150723/http://www.fieldrecorder.com/docs/notes/davenport.htm . May 12, 2008 . 27 November 2017.
4. Web site: NEA National Heritage Fellowships 1992 . . Arts.gov . National Endowment for the Arts . December 13, 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200629085045/https://www.arts.gov/honors/heritage/year/1992 . June 29, 2020 . dead.
5. Web site: Obituary for Clyde Thomas Davenport at Hickey Funeral Home. Hickeyandson.com. February 18, 2020.