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| Carthy Sisco Lee Stripling Jim Ketterman Jim Evans Glenn Berry Harry Johnson Jeff Anderson Marilyn Scott Gil Kiesecker Floyd Engstrom Stuart Williams Vivian Williams Author: Brid NowlanPhotographer: Doug PlummerAbout the projectExhibit ScheduleWA State Old Time Fiddlers Association Home PageArchivesHome
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Floyd was born in
1918, in Bremerton, Washington and grew up in Cherry Gardens, near Duvall. He had some
early violin lessons from Albert Miller, of Renton. When he was about eleven years old a
neighbor, Tom Somers, "Coaxed me into learning to play the old-time music, so
I’d go down there to his place and listen to him play and learn like that." Soon Floyd was playing with Tom and his band at the weekly dances in the old oneroom schoolhouse. The band included another local fiddler, Hoover Austin (who also played steel guitar), and a Mrs. Breneman on piano. Square dances, known locally as ‘quadrilles,’ were popular. So were couple dances, such as waltzes, foxtrots, schottisches, polkas, the Varsouvianna, Tuxedo, and Circle Two-Step. There was no set program for the night; the band would "just go as they were led," usually playing four or five couple dances in between squares. Floyd is back living near Bremerton, where he plays his fiddle with grace and charm and a sweet, even tone. He has just released a new CD—‘Kitsap County Fiddler’—on the Voyager label.
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