Junior Daugherty

Who is Junior Daugherty?

Forest Alton "Junior" Daugherty, Jr is a fiddler, guitar player and song writer. 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, and the Southwest Regional Championship, and has been inducted into the New Mexico Fiddler’s Hall of Fame. Over the last sixty 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. He and Verla produced three daughters, Penny Anderson, Voni Daugherty and Tammi Stuart all musicians. In 1991 he married Judy Osborn in Illinois and eventually made his way back to New Mexico. Junior moved to Larkspur, Colorado in 2009.