Jerry Holland (February 23, 1955 – July 16, 2009) was a musician and fiddler[2] who lived on Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia, Canada.
He was born in Brockton, Massachusetts, United States to Canadian parents – his father was from New Brunswick and his mother was from Quebec.
During his childhood, Holland was exposed to the music of the large Cape Breton expatriate community in Boston.
In his early 20s, Holland performed with the Cape Breton Symphony, a group of fiddlers that included Winston "Scotty" Fitzgerald, Angus Chisholm, Joe Cormier, Wilfred Gillis and John Donald Cameron.
It was his second album, Master Cape Breton Fiddler (1982, re-released on CD in 2001), that made his reputation as a ground-breaking musician.