He is a fiddle player, guitarist, banjo and mandolin player and
singer-songwriter, occasionally listed on recordings with his first name spelt as
"Stewart", born in Southern California.He started out by performing with many of his local
bands in Los Angeles and then in 1985 he became a member of the Nashville
Bluegrass Band, who he still performs and internationally tours with
today.He also became a much sought
after sideman and session musician, often in the field of
traditional and bluegrass music, he has appeared with numerous
artists that include Chet
Atkins, The Bellamy Brothers, Clint
Black, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Johnny Cash, The Chieftains, Billy
Ray Cyrus, Bela Fleck, Vince Gill, Faith Hill, Nanci
Griffith, Merle Haggard, George Jones, Wynona Judd, Sammy
Kershaw, Mark
Knopfler, Lyle Lovett, Loretta Lynn, Mac
McAnally, Reba McEntire, Ronnie Milsap, Aaron
Neville, The Oak Ridge Boys, Orchestra Nashville, Dolly
Parton, Charley Pride, John Prine, Dan Seals, Ray Stevens, George
Strait, Sweethearts
of the Rodeo, Pam
Tillis
, Travis Tritt, Tammy
Wynetteand Trisha Yearwood
among many others.Albums he
has featured on are countless and some of them include Beach House on
the Moon by Jimmy
Buffett , Somebody Like That by Glen
Campbell , Live
from Austin, TX by Guy Clark, LegacyHymns & Faith by Amy
Grant, Brand New Dance by Emmylou Harris, Intersections 1985-2005 by Bruce
Hornsby
, I've Got That Old Feeling by Alison Krauss, Twenty
by Lynyrd Skynyrd, Idletime by the Nashville Bluegrass Band, Willie
Nelson & Friends: Live and Kickin' by Willie Nelson, Will the
Circle Be Unbroken, Vol. 3 by The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Adieu
False Heart by Linda
Ronstadt & Ann Savoy, Love Like Ours by
Barbra Streisand, October Road by James
Taylor , Come on Over
by Shania Twain, Stormy by Hank Williams Jr. and the soundtracks of Black
Dog, Cold Mountain, Dead Man Walking, Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, Horse
Whsiperer and O Brother, Where Art Thou? and hundreds more.Recognised for
his contribution to music he has won two Grammy Awards with the Nashville
Bluegrass Band in 1994 and 1996 and has been named "Fiddle Player of the
Year" and "Specialty Instrument Player of the Year" in 1999 and 2006
respectively and was named the "Fiddle Player of the Year" seven years
running by the International Bluegrass Music Association's.The double fiddle concerto "Long
Journey Home" was commissioned for him to perform with Crystal Plohman by
the Orchestra Nashville.
