Can you help me identify a folk-singer violinist from the 1960s with especially evocative eyes?

Are you talking American or some other nationality? I know a lot about American folk music of that era and I can’t think of one who played the violin. There’s Natalie Merchant of 10,000 Maniacs but she’s not from that period and not a folkie.

Are you perhaps thinking of Stephane Grapelli? Wouldn’t call him a folkie and don’t know about his eyes but he’s played that fiddle a long time.

Doug Kershaw?

Are you thinking of David La Flamme who played violin on White Bird ? He was in the group “It’s a Beautiful Day”.

Here’s his website with a picture: Do you find his eyes evocative?

Could you possibly mean a fiddle player and not a violinist?

Dan Hicks?

@Jeruba I read a great statement about the difference between a violin and a fiddle in a novel recently: “One sings, the other dances.”

@janbb, that’s nicely said.

And of course there are fiddlers among the folkies of the sixties. I don’t remember any of them by their eyes, though.

‘Papa’ John Creach?