Becky Buller
Inducted 2023
Becky Buller is a multi-instrumentalist, singer/songwriter originally from St. James, Minnesota who travels the globe performing bluegrass music to underwrite her insatiable songwriting habit. Her compositions can be heard on recordings by Ricky Skaggs, Rhonda Vincent, Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver, Mark Newton, David Parmley and Continental Divide, The Kenny and Amanda Smith Band; IIIrd Tyme Out, and Valerie Smth & Liberty Pike. While growing up, her fiddle playing was featured at the annual Threshing Bee in Butterfield, Minnesota during the Summer. Currently, Becky lives with her husband and daughter in Manchester, Tennessee. She studied Public Relations at East Tennessee University, where she was involved in The Bluegrass and Country Music Program, graduating in 2001. Equally passionate about bluegrass music education, Becky has 20 years experience teaching fiddle, singing, and songwriting at workshops and camps around the world. In 2000, she released Rest My Weary Feet, a self-produced solo album for SRS Records. Becky was awarded first place in the bluegrass division of the 2001 Chris Austin Songwriting Contest at MerleFest in Wilkesboro, North Carolina. In 2016, Becky was the first woman to win an International Bluegrass Music Award (IBMA) for Fiddle Player of the Year, as well as the first artist to win IBMA awards in both the vocal and instrumental categories in the same year. Buller is the recipient of 10 IBMA awards, including the 2020 Song of the Year for “Chicago Barn Dance” (co-written with Missy Raines and Alison Brown), 2020 Collaborative Recording for song “The Barber’s Fiddle”, and the 2018 Gospel Recorded Performance for the song “Speakin’ to That Mountain”. Becky tours extensively with The Becky Buller Band and has released three albums on the Dark Shadow Recording label, including Distance and Time, which was a nominee for the 2021 IMBA Album of the Year. Becky has served as a member of the Board of Directors for The International Bluegrass Music Association between 2013 and 2017, and was Chairperson of the IBMA Songwriter’s Committee from 2013 to 2016. In addition to her performing, she also finds time to teach fiddle, bluegrass vocal, and songwriting via online classes through Skype and Facetime, as well as one-on-one in Manchester. As of 2024, Becky has appeared twice at country music’s most prestigious of venues & broadcasts: The Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, Tennessee.
