Vernon Solomon

b. Felix Vernon Solomon, 23 December 1924, Kaufman County, Texas, USA, d. 7 May 1991, Fort Worth, Texas, USA. Solomon was born into a musical family; his father and grandfather were fiddlers and he took up the fiddle, as did one of his brothers. He began playing his father's fiddle before he was five and at the age of 10 won a fiddle contest in Athens, Texas. The family often played together and were billed as Solomons' Championship Fiddling. He served in the military during World War II but this apart spent more than 40 years working for General Dynamic, Fort Worth, Texas. Re...