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Blizard is a prize-winning old-time fiddler. His fiddling style, which he calls "Appalachian Mountain Longbow," has won the Mount Airy Old Time Fiddle Championship three times and earned Blizard the title "Master Fiddler" at the Union Grove Old Time Fiddlers. Convention in North Carolina. Blizard served on the Tennessee Arts Commission from 1987 to 1992, and is currently a Tennessee Arts Ambassador. Lauded by Charlie Seemann, of the Country Music Foundation as "one of the country's finest old-time fiddlers." Blizard is recognized as a Tennessee treasure. He is a nominee for the National Heritage Fellowship Award, and has performed at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival in Washington, D.C.

Discography

Ralph Blizard Fiddles
Ralph Blizard with the New Southern Ramblers

Through the Ears - Rounder Records
With the Green Grass Cloggers

Blizard Train - June Appal Records
Ralph Blizard with the New Southern Ramblers

Southern Ramble -Rounder Records
Ralph Blizard with the New Southern Ramblers

Blue Highway 
Ralph Blizard and John Lilly