The featured fiddler on the soundtrack forthe Billy Bob Thornton movie, “The Astronaut Farmer”,
Clarence Ferrari began playing Bluegrass fiddle at the age of five. He won his first Old-Time fiddle
contest in Nashville when he was six.

Clarence has performed with countless musicians including Pete Seeger, Tom Chapin, Tom
Paxton, Roswell Rudd, Davey Arthur (The Furies), Les Binks (Judas Priest), Mary Rafferty (Liam
Clancy, Cherish The Ladies), Jon Graboff (Willie Nelson, Ryan Adams) and The Brooklyn
Philharmonic. Clarence has appeared on some of the world’sfineststagesincluding The Kennedy
Center and Chicago’s Symphony Center.

Clarence studied fiddle with Jay Ungar and Dewey Balfa, jazz composition with Jimmy Heath,
Donald Byrd and Roland Hanna, and classical composition with Thea Musgrave and Bruce Sailor.
Bringing his “fast and floating fiddle” to the world of Irish music, Clarence began touring North
America and Europe at the age of nineteen with well-known Celtic groups such as Lenahan, The
Jodee James Band, Ffynnon and The McCabes.