Violet Hensley (born October 21, 1916) is an American luthier and musician who makes and plays the fiddle.
Violet Hensley was born in Mount Ida, Arkansas, to George Washington and Nora Brumley.
In 1935, she married Adren Hensley and had nine or ten children with him in total, after which she ceased to make fiddles for several decades.
[2] In 1974, Hensley (along with her family) released the first of three albums called Old Time Fiddle Tunes.
[6] In 2004, Arkansas Art Council honoured Hensley as the state's living treasure.