Clyde Davenport

Clyde Davenport
Davenport in 1992
Background information
Birth name	Clyde Thomas Davenport
Born	October 21, 1921 Mt. Pisgah, Kentucky
Origin	Monticello, Kentucky, U.S.
Died	February 16, 2020 (aged 98) Monticello, Kentucky, U.S.
Genres	Old-time
Occupation(s)	Instrumentalist
Instrument(s)	Fiddle, banjo

Clyde Thomas Davenport (October 21, 1921 – February 16, 2020) was an American old-time fiddler and banjo player from Monticello, Kentucky.

Davenport was a recipient of a 1992 National Heritage Fellowship awarded by the National Endowment for the Arts, which is the United States government's highest honor in the folk and traditional arts. He died in February 2020 at the age of 98.