James "Winky" Hicks is a bluegrass musician and instrument maker from Grove Hill, Alabama. Hicks is a regular at fiddlers festivals, where he plays the banjo[1] with his band, the Frontier Bluegrass. Besides string instruments such as mandolins, he also makes turkey yelpers.[2] In 2011, he was named a "Black Belt Treasured Artist" by the Black Belt Treasures Cultural Arts Center, a non-profit from Camden, Alabama.[3]

References

  1. ↑ "Winky wins". Clarke County Democrat. 24 July 2008. Retrieved 28 October 2014.
  2. ↑ "James "Winky" Hicks". Black Belt Treasures Cultural Arts Center. Retrieved 28 October 2014.
  3. ↑ "Winky Hicks named a Black Belt Treasured Artist". Thomasville Times. 14 April 2011. Retrieved 28 October 2014.


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