Clyde Davenport

Clyde Thomas Davenport (October 21, 1921 – February 16, 2020) was an American old-time fiddler and banjo player from Monticello, Kentucky.^[2][3]

Clyde Davenport
Davenport in 1992
Background information
Birth name	Clyde Thomas Davenport
Born	(1921-10-21)October 21, 1921 Mt. Pisgah, Kentucky[1]
Origin	Monticello, Kentucky, U.S.
Died	February 16, 2020(2020-02-16) (aged 98) Monticello, Kentucky, U.S.
Genres	Old-time
Occupation	Instrumentalist
Instrument(s)	Fiddle, banjo

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]