Located in the Pioneer Music Museum, Anita, Iowa, just off I-80 at Exit-70.

There are presently well over 100 old fiddles in the Hall of Fame, mounted beside the portraits of those who played them. This particular Hall of Fame honors one of the most priceless of America's traditonal music torch arriers, the old time fiddler. What started as an honorarium for the State of Iowa fiddlers, quickly turned into a Hall of Fame honoring fiddlers from all across America. Some still carry on this incredible meusical art for of our forefathers and the pioneers that settled this great land.

The tunes, reels, jigs, waltzs, and songs that American danced to while they homesteaded this new land, were mostly old time fiddler favorites. All sizes, all shapes, all speeds, all types. Fiddle music, sometimes known as the 'devil's music' was the backbone of our settler's entertainment needs, and the old songs and tunes still live on in the hands of the young who find this particular American musical art form still exciting, still enjoyable, still necessary.

Induction into this Hall of Fame is based on a nomination from a previous entrant.

INDUCTESS IN AMERICA'S OLD TIME FIDDLERS HALL OF FAME

2008 Inductees
Craig Howell, Volga, South Dakota
Daniel Giles Sheldon, Cresband, South Dakota

Johnny Gimble, Texas
Ernest Ringo II, Illinois
Glenn "Grandad" Kephart, Iowa
Marvin Gough, Kansas
Bill Johnson, South Dakota
Amos Chase, Kansas
Laurier Birginal, Nebraska
Wilbur Foss, South Dakota
Bob Kenaston, Nebraska
Jarle Foss, South Dakota
Lucy Pierce, Kansas
Jay Simmons, Nebraska
Archie Smothers, Illinois
"Doc" Patterson, Nebraska
Bob Sweeney, Iowa
Carl "Pegleg" & Marie Carson, Nebraska
Howard Sisk, Indiana
Weldon Gourd, Iowa
Jerry Latterell, Iowa
Charlie Pettis, Nebraska
Larry Hobbs, Illinois
Newton Jensen, South Dakota
Bertha Bratton, Illinois
Jana Jae, Oklahoma
Clayton McMichen, North Carolina
Buster Jenkins, Kansas
Lloyd Fossum,Minnesota
Danny Moore, Kansas
"Cactus" Pete McMurry, Kansas
Mike Mikesell, Iowa
John Stearns, Iowa
VerlinLorenzo, Missouri
Fred Stoneking, Missouri
Truman Watkins, Iowa
Clair Dickey, Iowa
Hubert Thornberry, Illinois
Les Sahl, Iowa
Del Baker, California
Bernadette Westegaard, South Dakota
Dean Trammel, Oklahoma
Fred Voelker, Kansas
Cyrill Stinnet, Missouri
Jay Kelly, Nebraska
Phil McCrea, Iowa
Dwight Lamb, Iowa
Archie Ellsberry, Nebraska
Vernon Thompson, North Dakota
Harry Hanson, Nebraska
Wilbur Hall, South Dakota
Art Galbraith, Missouri
Lester Collier, Iowa
Maxine Thomas, Illinois
Bill Sherborne, Minnesota
Curtis Sclereth, Minnesota
Violet Randall, Minnesota
Vince Wiedler, South Dakota
John Griffin, Missouri
Johnny Ray Bruce, Missouri
Ellsworth Clark, Iowa
Rocky Stone, Indiana
Paul Wilkenson, Missouri
Chlores Worlow, Illinois
Red Thompson, Illinois
Larry Allen, Illinois
Arnold Gerdes, South Dakota
Alvin Johnson, Iowa
Don Wright, Iowa
Paul Silbaugh, Iowa
John & Jean Gough, Kansas
Kay Werre, South Dakota
Dave & Jane Wimmer, Iowa
Eldon Gregory, South Dakota
Archie Tiegen Sr., Minnesota
Gilmore Lee, Minnesota
Howard Marshall, Missouri
Ralph Saathaff, Iowa
Ed Hoffman, Minnesota
Gale Andersen, Minnesota
Ken Janes, South Dakota
Taylor McBaine, Missouri
Herman Johnson, Oklahoma
Walter Bailey, South Dakota
Bertl Malm, South Dakota
Everett Collier, Iowa
Deborah Greenblatt, Nebraska
Edwin Heft, Nebraska
Raymond Easter, Illinois
Ray Campbell, Nebraska
Tom McKay, Nebraska
Pete McMahon, Missouri