10-time IBMA award-winning bluegrass and roots music artist Becky Buller fiddles like her hair is on fire and writes a mean song, too. Her accolades include 2015 IBMA Songwriter of the Year, 2016 IBMA Fiddler and Female Vocalist of the Year (the first person to win in both categories), and 2020 IBMA Song of the Year. Her song cycle Jubilee debuted at #1 on the Billboard Bluegrass Albums chart in June 2024. A 2023 inductee into the Minnesota Music Hall of Fame and a 2026 inductee into the St. James (MN) Arts Hall of Fame, she received the 2025 Distinguished Achievement Award in the Arts from the East Tennessee State University (ETSU) Alumni Association. Becky and her band have appeared numerous times on WSM’s Grand Ole Opry. She tours extensively with her group, in a duo with Banjo Hall of Famer Ned Luberecki, and as a solo artist.
Becky’s songs have been featured on GRAMMY-winning albums by Molly Tuttle (2023), The Travelin’ McCourys (2019), and The Infamous Stringdusters (2018). A prolific songwriter, Becky has recorded eight solo albums stacked almost exclusively with her own chart-topping material. Most are on the Dark Shadow Recording label, including Jubilee, a song cycle about her mental health journey commissioned by the FreshGrass Foundation to debut at its 2023 festival in Bentonville, AR. Her latest, Songs That Sing Me (2025), is her first all-covers album and celebrates her musical heroes. It reached #1 on the Roots Music Report in March 2026 and has more than 330,000 streams on Spotify.
She also moonlights with the all-female supergroup The First Ladies of Bluegrass, made up of the first women to win IBMA awards in their respective instrumental categories: Alison Brown (banjo), Missy Raines (bass), Sierra Hull (mandolin), Becky (fiddle), and Molly Tuttle (guitar). The band’s performances include the 2019 Telluride Bluegrass Festival and the 2019 Newport Folk Festival, where they were part of a historic all-female Saturday night headlining set curated by Brandi Carlile. Steve Martin invited the band to perform during his January 2020 run of comedy shows with Martin Short.
Equally passionate about music education, Becky teaches privately from her studio and at workshops and camps worldwide. She also serves as an adjunct professor of roots music marketing at ETSU, her alma mater. Originally from St. James, MN, Becky now makes her home in Manchester, TN, with her husband, their daughter, and two cats.
