Fats Kaplin

Fats Kaplin
Background information
Born	Manhattan, New York, United States
Years active	2004–present

Fats Kaplin is an American musician, born in New York City. He is best known as a fiddler. He also plays guitar, button accordion, banjo, mandolin, steel guitar, an Arab oud, and a Turkish cümbüş, among others.^[1][2] He has worked with artists such as Jack White,^[3] Trisha Yearwood, The Tractors, Nanci Griffith, Pure Prairie League, John Prine, Roy Bookbinder, Beck, Mitski, and Tinariwen.^[4]

He currently resides in Nashville, Tennessee and is married to musician Kristi Rose.^[5] In 2003, he started playing with fellow country artists and Nashville residents Kieran Kane and Kevin Welch, as Kane Welch Kaplin.^{[6][7][8][9][10]}