A fine bluegrass banjo player, Stevie Barr was born in 1975 in Galax, VA, in the very heart of old-time string band country. The son of %Rebecca and %Thomas Barr, he grew up in a family dedicated to making music, and was playing banjo by the age of four. %Thomas, a fiddle maker, owned and operated %Tom Barr's Fiddle Shop in Galax, a gathering spot for bluegrass and old-time musicians the world over, and Stevie literally grew up in the shop, taking it all in and becoming a fine player in his own right. He made his first recording, a cassette of bluegrass banjo classics, in 1986.
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