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Hobart Smith
Hobart Smith
American musician
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Clarence Ashley
Clarence Ashley
American musician
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Frank Hamilton
Frank Hamilton
American musician
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Hedy West
Hedy West
American folksinger and songwriter
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Old Crow Medicine Show
Old Crow Medicine Show
Americana string band based in Nashville, Tennessee, United States
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Willie Watson
Willie Watson
American musician
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Lily May Ledford
Lily May Ledford
American musician
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Dock Boggs
Dock Boggs
American musician
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Béla Fleck
Béla Fleck
American banjo player
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Bascom Lamar Lunsford
Bascom Lamar Lunsford
American musician and lawyer
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Brownie McGhee
Brownie McGhee
American folk-blues singer and guitarist
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Jean Ritchie
Jean Ritchie
American folk singer
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Doc Watson
Doc Watson
American guitarist, songwriter and singer
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Mike Seeger
Mike Seeger
American singer
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Arthur Smith
Arthur Smith
American country musician, songwriter and producer
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Ian Campbell Folk Group
Ian Campbell Folk Group
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Bradley Kincaid
Bradley Kincaid
American singer
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Abigail Washburn
Abigail Washburn
American banjo player and singer
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Joe Bethancourt
Joe Bethancourt
American musician
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Jim & Jesse
Jim & Jesse
American bluegrass duo
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The Felice Brothers
The Felice Brothers
American folk rock/country rock band
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Eric Weissberg
Eric Weissberg
American musician
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Jimmy Driftwood
Jimmy Driftwood
singer
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Ralph Stanley
Ralph Stanley
American singer
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Trampled by Turtles
Trampled by Turtles
American folk band from Minnesota
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Tom Paxton
Tom Paxton
American folk singer and singer-songwriter
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Rhiannon Giddens
Rhiannon Giddens
American musician
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Pete Seeger
Pete Seeger
American folk singer
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Gaither Carlton
Gaither Carlton
American musician
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Roger McGuinn
Roger McGuinn
American singer-songwriter and guitarist
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Bill Monroe
Bill Monroe
American bluegrass musician, songwriter
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The Carolina Chocolate Drops
The Carolina Chocolate Drops
American band
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The Dubliners
The Dubliners
Irish folk band
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Del McCoury
Del McCoury
American musician
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Zac Brown Band
Zac Brown Band
American country/folk band
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Eck Robertson
Eck Robertson
American old-time fiddler player
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Grandpa Jones
Grandpa Jones
banjo player and singer from the United States
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John Jacob Niles
John Jacob Niles
American musician
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Earl Scruggs
Earl Scruggs
American musician
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Gillian Welch
Gillian Welch
American musician
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Roscoe Holcomb
Roscoe Holcomb
American musician
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Langhorne Slim
Langhorne Slim
American musician
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Paul Clayton
Paul Clayton
American musician
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Merle Travis
Merle Travis
American country/Western singer-songwriter and musician
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Bill Clifton
Bill Clifton
American musician
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Fleming Brown (March 1, 1926 – 1984), born in Marshall, Missouri, United States, was an American banjo player and one of the early teachers at Chicago's Old Town School of Folk Music. As an artist, Brown specialized in traditional songs of the Southern Appalachians. He was influenced by old-time banjo players such as Uncle Dave Macon and Dock Boggs. Brown supported himself as a graphic artist and as such never performed widely outside of Chicago.

Brown learned the banjo from Doc Hopkins, an old-time singer who hosted a morning radio show on WLS in Chicago. He would have his lesson at the studio after the show daily. As a banjo player Brown traveled much learning technique from other banjo players like Doc Hopkins, Bascom Lamar Lunsford, Grandpa Jones, Hobart Smith, Frank Proffitt. In 1963 Brown recorded the banjo player Hobart Smith for a record released as The 1963 Fleming Brown Tapes.

In 1953 he joined the "I Come for to Sing" group with Studs Terkel, Larry Lane, Chet Roble and Big Bill Broonzy. Also in that year, he hosted a folk music radio show on Chicago's WFMT which was entitled "The Midnight Special" since it began at midnight on Saturdays.

At the Old Town School, Brown mentored banjoist Stephen Wade who eventually took over teaching Fleming's class in 1974.

Fleming has performed at the Asheville, North Carolina, Festival, the Newport Folk Festival, and the University of Chicago Folk Festival.