Vesta Johnson plays fiddle at a square dance.

Vesta Johnson

St. Louis, Missouri

Vesta Johnson is a powerhouse square dance fiddler who currently lives in St. Louis.

Blue Flame

Players: Vesta Johnson, fiddle; Steve Hall, guitar

Vesta Johnson learned this tune from a a fiddler from California at a jam session at a fiddle contest in northeastern Oklahoma in the 1970s. It is collected on “Now That’s a Good Tune.”