John Harrod
Advanced Fiddle
Faculty
John Harrod has been documenting, playing, and teaching Kentucky music for 50 years. Although he started out playing bluegrass in high school, he credits Mark Wilson and the late Gus Meade with introducing him to the world of pre-bluegrass traditional music. With them he produced a series of field recordings that are available from Rounder Records and the Field Recorders’ Collective. He has taught fiddle at the Cowan Creek Mountain Music School, the American Festival of Fiddle Tunes, the Augusta Heritage Center, Swannanoa Old Time Week, and Centre College. He performs with Kentucky Wild Horse. His recordings include Living in the Promised Land, Spirits of the Lonesome Hills, and Wild and Free with Kentucky Wild Horse and a solo fiddle recording Johnny Come Along.