Famous fiddler Byron Berline, owner of Guthrie fiddle shop, dies at age 77

FOR THE COMMUNITY HERE IN FREE BUT PEOPLE ACROSS OKLAHOMA AND ACROSS THE COUNTRY AND WANT TO SHOW YOU THOSE WHOAVE H ALREADY TAKEN THE TIME TO COME OUT TO HIS FIDDLE SHOPPING MUSIC HALL AND PAY THEIR RESPECTS. YOU CAN SEE A COUPLE OF FLOWER BOUQUETS OUT HERE IN FRONT OF HIS SHOP. AND ALSO YOU SEE THIS GFOL BALL HERE PRETTY INTERESTING SRYTO HERE. WE HAD A GENTLEMAN COME BY AND DROP OFF THIS GOLF BALL AND SAY THAT BASICALLY HE HAD A GOLF MATCH WITH MR. BURLINE A FEW WEEKS AGO, BUT IT NEVER CAME TO BE SO HE WANTED TO LEAD THIS GOLF BALL. IN HONOR OF THE MATCH THAT THEY NEVER HAD SO JUST THAT SHOWS YOU STJU HOW MUCH MR. BERLIN MEANT TO THOSE IN THE COMMUNITY HERE IN GUTHRIE. NOW,E W FIRST LEARNED OFIS H PASSING EARLIER THIS MORNING AFTER A TETWE FROM THE AMERICAN BANJO MUSEUM. THEY SAID WE LOST A GREAT FRIEND WITH THE PASSING OF BYRON BURLEIN CASTING PRIDEN O OKLAHOMA ANYWHERE IN ANY TIME. HE PERFOEDRM BYRON’S STORY. HE PERFORMED BYRON’S STORY CAREER IS LEGENDARY THE INTERNATIONAL BLUEGRASS. MUSEUM ASSOCIATION ALSO POSTING THIS MORNING AFTER LEARNGIN THE NEWS OF HIS DTEB SAYING IN PART. WE ARE DEEPLY SADDENED TO HEAR THE PASSINGF O THE GREAT FIDDLER BYRON BURLON OUR THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS GO OUT TO HIS FAMILY AND FRIENDS AND THE SAME THING FROM FROM US AT KOCO AND ME MYSELF. I’VE INTERVIEWED MR. BURLINE MULTIPLE TIMES AND I CAN TELL YOU HE’S ONEF O THE NICEST PEOPLE MOST HUMBLE PEOPLE TTHA YOU’RE PROBAYBL EVER MEET ALWAYS WITH GREAT STORIES ABOUT HIS TIME AS A FIDDLER PLAYER. TRAVELING ACROSS THE COUNTRY ETMEING DIFFERENT, YOU KNOW FAMOUS MUSICIANS ACTORS ETC. ONE OF MY FAVORITE STORIES THAT HE TOLD ME PERSONALLY WAS WHEN HE MET AOLDRN SCHWARZENEGRGE BEFORE HE GOT FAMOUS. HE HAD A GREAT STORY ABOUT THAT AS WELL. SO JUST ONEF O THE NICEST PEOPLE YOU NEED YOU’LL MTEE JUST A VERY SAD SITUATION HERE. HE WILL

Famous fiddler Byron Berline, who owned the Double Stop Fiddle Shop in Guthrie, has died at the age of 77."We lost a great friend with the passing of Byron Berline," American Banjo Museum officials tweeted. "Casting pride on Oklahoma anywhere & anytime he performed, Byron’s storied career is legendary. Yet he was as accessible & kind as a person could be. Already missed, Byron left this world a better place than he entered." "We are deeply saddened to hear of the passing of the great fiddler Byron Berline," International Bluegrass Music Association officials also posted on social media. "Our thoughts and prayers go out to Mr. Berline's family and friends. Rest in peace."Berline rose to prominence in the late 1960s. He recorded with a variety of artists, including The Rolling Stones, The Dillards and The Flying Burrito Brothers.He was a member of Bill Monroe and the Blue Grass Boys and was a founder/member of several bands, including the Country Gazette, California and the Byron Berline Band.Berline was the three-time champion at the National Oldtime Fiddlers' Contest and Festival in Idaho, and he was inducted into the National Fiddler Hall of Fame in 2013. He received the IBMA Distinguished Achievement Award in 2012 for his substantial contributions to bluegrass and fiddle music.Berline, who was born on July 6, 1944, in Caldwell, Kansas, eventually moved to Guthrie and made central Oklahoma his home. Berline helped establish the annual Oklahoma International Bluegrass Festival.In February 2019, a devastating fire destroyed Berline's fiddle shop in downtown Guthrie. The Double Stop Fiddle Shop was one of two stores destroyed in the fire.Berline was on vacation when he learned about what happened to his shop, but hundreds of instruments he collected over the years and decades of memorabilia were destroyed."They all have souls and personalities," Berline told KOCO 5 shortly after the fire. "That's what's sad. They won't have another life. They're done."Members of the Guthrie community rallied around Berline, holding a benefit concert and helping in any way they could before he eventually opened a new venue.

OKLAHOMA CITY —

Famous fiddler Byron Berline, who owned the Double Stop Fiddle Shop in Guthrie, has died at the age of 77.

"We lost a great friend with the passing of Byron Berline," American Banjo Museum officials tweeted. "Casting pride on Oklahoma anywhere & anytime he performed, Byron’s storied career is legendary. Yet he was as accessible & kind as a person could be. Already missed, Byron left this world a better place than he entered."

"We are deeply saddened to hear of the passing of the great fiddler Byron Berline," International Bluegrass Music Association officials also posted on social media. "Our thoughts and prayers go out to Mr. Berline's family and friends. Rest in peace."

Berline rose to prominence in the late 1960s. He recorded with a variety of artists, including The Rolling Stones, The Dillards and The Flying Burrito Brothers.

He was a member of Bill Monroe and the Blue Grass Boys and was a founder/member of several bands, including the Country Gazette, California and the Byron Berline Band.

Berline was the three-time champion at the National Oldtime Fiddlers' Contest and Festival in Idaho, and he was inducted into the National Fiddler Hall of Fame in 2013. He received the IBMA Distinguished Achievement Award in 2012 for his substantial contributions to bluegrass and fiddle music.

Berline, who was born on July 6, 1944, in Caldwell, Kansas, eventually moved to Guthrie and made central Oklahoma his home. Berline helped establish the annual Oklahoma International Bluegrass Festival.

In February 2019, a devastating fire destroyed Berline's fiddle shop in downtown Guthrie. The Double Stop Fiddle Shop was one of two stores destroyed in the fire.

Berline was on vacation when he learned about what happened to his shop, but hundreds of instruments he collected over the years and decades of memorabilia were destroyed.

"They all have souls and personalities," Berline told KOCO 5 shortly after the fire. "That's what's sad. They won't have another life. They're done."

Members of the Guthrie community rallied around Berline, holding a benefit concert and helping in any way they could before he eventually opened a new venue.

Famous fiddler Byron Berline, owner of Guthrie fiddle shop, dies at age 77

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