Ernie Carpenter

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| birth_name = Ernest O. Carpenter

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| birth_date = April 10, 1907

| birth_place = Sutton, West Virginia, US

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| death_date = {{death date and age|1997|1|23|1907|4|10}}

| instrument = Fiddle

| genre = Old-time music

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| years_active = c. 1925–1997

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Ernest O. Carpenter, born April 10, 1907, at Sutton, West Virginia, died January 23, 1997, was a famous American fiddle player,Michael Kline. 2006. "Carpenter Family" in The West Virginia Encyclopedia, Ken Sullivan, ed. Charleston, W.Va.: The West Virginia Humanities Council, pp. 113-114; see also http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/print/Article/976.Gerald Milnes. 1999. Play of a Fiddle, Traditional Music, Dance, and Folklore in West Virginia, Lexington, Ky.: The University Press of Kentucky, pp. 35-44. 1988 winner of the Vandalia Award, West Virginia's highest folklife honor, at the annual Vandalia Gathering.West Virginia Division of Culture and History: The Vandalia Award, http://www.wvculture.org/goldenseal/vandalia2k/erniecarpenter.html. He is interred near Sutton, West Virginia.