Junior Daugherty

Forest Alton "Junior" Daugherty, Jr (born July 19, 1930 in Alamogordo, Otero County, New Mexico) is a fiddler, guitar player and songwriter. He has been ranked among the top five fiddlers in the United States over a fifteen-year period. Daugherty won the New Mexico state fiddling championship eight years, the Southwest Regional Championship, and has been inducted into the New Mexico Fiddler's Hall of Fame and the Arizona Fiddler's Hall of Fame. Over the last sixty-five years Daugherty has performed around the world at Cowboy poetry events and at Carnegie Hall; with musicians as diverse as Sir Yehudi Menuhin at the First American Violin Congress and Hawaiian fiddler Eddie Kamae; and with distinguished music talents including Mark O’Connor, Aly Bain and Johnny Gimble. In addition, he continues to teach fiddle workshops at the Ashokan Fiddle & Dance Camp. Many of his compositions have been performed and recorded by other artists.

In 1952 just prior to enlisting in the US Navy, Junior married Verla Mae Clay (who died from breast cancer in 1985). He and Verla produced three daughters, all musicians. In 1991 he married Judy Osborn in Illinois and eventually made his way back to New Mexico. Junior now lives in Colorado with his daughter, but still actively engages in music events around the country, participating in Festival of American Fiddle Tunes' Fiddles on the Fourth (https://centrum.org/2018/06/2018-fiddles-on-the-fourth-at-fort-worden/) and Ashokan Music Western Swing Week (https://ashokan.org/western-swing-week-camp/) in 2018.

PERFORMANCE HIGHLIGHTS:

 Elko, Nevada - COWBOY POETRY—1999, 2001, 2003
 Quad City, Iowa - FOLK FEST with JOHNNY GIMBLE—1993,1994,1995
 Illinois University - COWBOY POETRY FOLK FESTIVAL—1994, 1995
 Mountainaire, NM - COWBOY FOLK FEST—1997, 1998,1999
 Safford, AZ - COWBOY POETRY—2002
 Carson, Nevada - COWBOY POETRY—2002
 Ashokan, NY - taught week-long ASHOKAN FIDDLE WORKSHOP with JAY UNGAR and MOLLY MASON—1982 to 2016
 Honolulu, HI - fiddled and performed in EDDIE KAMAE'S acclaimed documentary film “LI‘A: LEGACY OF A HAWAIIAN MAN“—1988
 Hawaiian Islands - toured the Hawaiian Islands with EDDIE KAMAE AND SONS OF HAWAII to present the film in 1990
 Honolulu, HI - HAWAIIAN FILM FESTIVAL—1989
 Palm Springs, CA - PALM SPRINGS FILM FESTIVAL—1989
 Seattle, WA - SEATTLE FILM FESTIVAL—1989
 Glasgow, Scotland - performed shows for Scottish Television with ALY BAIN and PHIL CUNNINGHAM—1988
 Dublin Ireland - recorded on the album for PHIL CUNNINGHAM—1988
 Scotland and England - six-week tour with THE BOYS OF THE LOCH—1988
 University of Maryland - concert performance at the FIRST AMERICAN VIOLIN CONGRESS with SIR YEHUDI MENUHIN—1987
 New York City - concert performances at the STATUE OF LIBERTY RE-OPENING—1986
 New York City - NATIONAL FOLK FESTIVAL—1982,1984, 1986
 Fairhill, MD - concert performances at BRANDYWINE FESTIVAL—1985
 FOLK CONCERT SERIES - Folklife Center of International House of Philadelphia International Tours (U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT CULTURAL EXCHANGE PROGRAM) -- 1984, 1985
 COWBOY TOUR - NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR TRADITIONAL ARTS - U.S. Mainland and Hawaii circuit—1984, 1985
 Southeast Asia - FOUR WEEK TOUR—1982
 North Africa and Middle East - SIX WEEK TOUR—1981
 Knoxville, TN - four weeks of concert performances at the KNOXVILLE WORLD'S FAIR—1982
 Billings, Montana - a special guest entertainer at MONTANA'S FESTIVAL OF STRINGS—1978
 Cody, Wyoming - a special guest entertainer at WYOMING'S FESTIVAL OF STRINGS—1977
 Washington, DC - concert performances at the BICENTENNIAL CELEBRATION—1977

Recordings 
“Honkytonkin”,
“A Labor of Love - Junior Daugherty and his Circle of Friends”,
“Lights of Pinon”,
“Back Stage with Junior Daugherty”,
“Fun Fiddlin”,
“Just Waltzin”,
“Just Fiddling’ - Vol 2”,
“Just Fiddling’ - Vol I”.

References

External links
 ReverbNation
 Discogs
 CDBaby
 iTunes

External links
 
 
 Too Pretty for Words
 Dixie Doughboys with Junior Daugherty and Sean Blackburn
 YouTube -- Junior Daugherty

Category:Old-time fiddlers
Category:Musicians from New Mexico
Category:People from Alamogordo, New Mexico
Category:American fiddlers
Category:1930 births
Category:Living people
Category:United States Navy personnel
Category:People from Douglas County, Colorado
Category:21st-century violinists