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Earnie Taft,  
Old Timey  
Fiddler  
Earnie Taft is Texas  
born and has been  
fiddling for over 50  
years. He’s a self-taught,  
“short bow” fiddler, and  
has been active in the  
Dallas-Fort Worth folk  
music scene for most of  
those years.  
In 1970s, while he was in college at North Texas State University, he  
was the founding member of the Saltlick band that haunted the Fort  
Worth Stockyards area and at the White Elephant Saloon for over 20  
years.  
In that same period of time, he helped to form the New Dallas  
String Band that specialized in 18th and 19th Century country  
dance music. This band and its talented musicians actively inspired  
the local resurgence of a style of music now referred to as “Old  
Timey” music.  
Earnie later developed an interest in Irish music and played with  
Tinker’s Dam, an Irish Ceili band that helped to initiate the early  
growth of Irish music and cultural awareness in Dallas in the 1980’s.  
In 1993 he joined the Irish Rogues, Dallas’ “Premier Pub Band.”  
A photo of the Irish Rogues in 1993 showing Earnie Taft with his  
fiddle, John Hodgins on his accordion, Harold Harrington on  
banjo, Red McWilliams on guitar.  

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