Jenee Fleenor

Fleenor was born in Springdale, Arkansas. She started learning to play the violin when she was three-years-old. She studied the Suzuki method of playing. She played alongside her parents, with her mother playing the piano and her father the violin. Fleenor started playing the fiddle, at the age of five, after hearing the song Faded Love by Bob Wills. She became a fiddle player for the band at a local Opry house when she was ten. She found influence in the playing of many Nashville musicians including Brent Mason, Paul Franklin, Rob Hajacos, Mark O’Connor, Ricky Skaggs, Steve Wariner and Vince Gill to name a few. She relocated to Nashville, Tennessee in 2001 to attend college. She sat in with a bluegrass band during a show and Larry Cordle asked her a few days later to perform with him. She quit college and became a full time musician. ==Career==

Fleenor plays fiddle, mandolin and acoustic guitar. She also is a singer-songwriter. In 2024 she started touring with George Strait and the Ace in the Hole Band after the passing of his long time fiddler and one of her fiddle heroes, Gene Elders. ==Awards and nominations==