Roy Pilgrim is an old-time fiddler from the Fayetteville, Arkansas area. Roy grew up immersed in bluegrass and folk music and at the age of eight began playing guitar, banjo, and mandolin. In his late teens, Roy honed in his focus on the traditional fiddle music of the Ozarks. Roy has played square dances, farmer’s markets, festivals, concerts, and taught workshops across the country as part of the Fayetteville based stringband the Ozark Highballers. He is also a carpenter and operates a small logging and sawmill operation with his brother. Roy lives outside of West Fork, AR on a small homestead where he is raising a couple of pigs, a big garden, and a sorghum patch.