Clyde Davenport | |
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![]() Davenport in 1992 | |
Background information | |
Birth name | Clyde Thomas Davenport |
Born | Mt. Pisgah, Kentucky[1] | October 21, 1921
Origin | Monticello, Kentucky, U.S. |
Died | February 16, 2020 Monticello, Kentucky, U.S. | (aged 98)
Genres | Old-time |
Occupation(s) | Instrumentalist |
Instrument(s) | 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]