Hyram Posey
Hyram Posey is an American fiddle player who combines elements of bluegrass, country, western swing, jazz, and blues. He resides in [Nashville, Tennessee where he does session work and writes film music.
Biography
Posey was born on October 29, 1954, in Douglas, Arizona. His musical career began at age seven when he began taking piano lessons. He later took up the violin in his school orchestra at age nine.
He began his professional career at the age of 14, playing fiddle for Charley Pride.[1]
In 1980, he won the National Fancy Fiddler’s contest in Weiser, Idaho.[2] [1]
He won the award again in 1981 and then judged the contest in 1982. He was also inducted into the National Fiddler’s Hall of Fame in Weiser, Idaho, that same year.[3]
Posey recorded his first album, Listen to My Fiddle, in 1972. After high school, he moved to Wichita, Kansas, where he played in the house band for the Long Branch Jamboree television show.[4]
In 1983 and 1984, Posey played his original music in special benefit concerts with the 47-piece Arizona Touring Orchestra.[5] [2]
In 1986, while living in Tucumcari, he was commissioned to compose the music for the musical, Dream on a Blue Horse, by Rebekah Gossett.[1]
In 1991, Posey performed at the Telluride Jazz Celebration with saxophone legend Richie Cole.[6]
Posey has appeared on the Grand Ole Opry and the Music City Hayride, and performed with country stars George Strait and Jeannie Pruett.[6]
While traveling between Arizona, New Mexico, Tennessee, and Texas, playing music, Hyram also spent 35 years working for the Southern Pacific Railroad.[1]
Following an accident in 2004, Posey retired from the railroad and eventually moved to Nashville.
In 2018, Posey won the Instrumentalist of the Year award at the Academy of Western Artists Awards in Fort Worth, Texas, and the Josie Music Awards in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee.[7][8]
Posey was inducted into the Northwestern Western Swing Hall of Fame in August 2019 in Washington State.[1] [9][10]
In 2020, CNN included Posey in an interview discussing the effects of the coronavirus pandemic and tornadoes on Nashville's music industry.[11]
Partial discography
Solo
- Listen to My Fiddle 1972
- Done Gone 1979
- Electrified 2008
- High Octane 2018
Hyram Posey and Gene Charlebois
- Talking to the Stars 2015
- Van Winkle’s Dream 2016
The Swangers
- A Tribute to Bob Wills 2019
Hyram Posey, Gene Charlebois, Tim Henderson
- White Road Symphony 2019
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Moomaw, Randy (June 19, 2019). "A New Swing Shift for Posey". Dickson Post. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ 2.0 2.1 Stephens, Greg (February 1983). "Formal Fiddling or Vacationing Violin". The Bluegrass Alternative and the National Fiddler. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Throndson, Lachlan (April 1983). "Frets Visits....Weiser, ID". Frets Magazine. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Satterwhite, James (February 1985). "Hyram Posey - Fiddle on Fire". Country Music Inquirer. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Johnson, Jim (May–June 1985). "Fiddle on Fire - Sounds that Won't Cool Down". Southern Pacific Bulletin. 68 (3): 21.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 "Telluride Times Journal". Rising to Jazz the Telluride Jazz Celebration. August 2-4 1991: 8, 14.
- ↑ "2018 Will Rogers Award Winners". Academy of Western Artists Award Winners. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Josie 2019 Official Winners List". Josie Music Awards. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Northwest Western Swing Society". Northwest Western Swing Society. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Moomaw, Randy (November 13, 2019). "Posey Picks Up More Music Awards". Dickson Post. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ McLaughlin, Elliot C (March 22, 2020). "Coronavirus and the day the music died in Nashville". CNN. Unknown parameter
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