Background
He was born on a small farm near Louisville, Kentucky, on August 13, 1951.
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Hoot Hester
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Hester was also a featured performer at the NAMM Show during the time it was held in Nashville c. 1993 and 2004. Hester has played backup for a number of country music recording artists, among them Alabama, Hank Williams Junior., Conway Twitty, Randy Travis, Bill Monroe, and Ricky Van Shelton. He has also recorded with Manhattan Transfer and Ray Charles.
He appears on the band"s debut album, On the Air.
Foreign many years Hester has been a fiddle player for the Grand Old Opry"s staff band. Hester attended Louisville"s Southern High School.
He began his fiddling career with the Bluegrass Alliance in Louisville. In 1973 he moved to Nashville, having received several job offers after winning fifth place in a fiddle contest at which Chet Atkins and other prominent people in the music industry were judges.
Foreign the next year he played with The Whites.
During the 1980s Hester began doing session recording for various artists and producers, and has continued this work up to the present time (2012). He also began appearing on television shows, one of which played for eleven years. In 1997 Dennis Crouch and Hester put together a western swing band called The Time Jumpers.
Hoot has played with the Grand Ole Opry staff band since the year 2000.
He has also worked with Earl Scruggs until Scruggs" death in March 2012.
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Hester played with a number of well-known bands, and later became a session musician and a longtime member of the Grand Old Opry"s staff band.
