# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kevin-burke
# Generated: 2026-08-14T09:47:46.761Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kevin-burke"
name: "Kevin Burke"
slug: "kevin-burke"
description: "Kevin Burke is an Irish master fiddler considered one of the finest living Irish fiddlers. For nearly five decades he has been at the forefront of Irish traditional music and Celtic music, performing and recording with the groups The Bothy Band, Patrick Street, and the Celtic Fiddle Festival. He is a 2002 recipient of a National Heritage Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. He is also regarded as a fiddle-singing pioneer."
tagline: "British-Irish fiddler"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Kevin_Burke.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1950"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           43.08
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.551873333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.kevinburke.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/674210"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%81%D9%86_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%83"
    title: "كيفن بيرك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%81%D9%86_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%83"
    title: "كيفن بيرك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%DB%8C%D9%81%D9%86_%D8%A8%DB%8C%D8%B1%DA%A9"
    title: "کیفن بیرک"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Burke_(musician)"
    title: "Kevin Burke (musician)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Burke"
    title: "Kevin Burke"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Burke"
    title: "Kevin Burke"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B1%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A3%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%90%E3%83%BC%E3%82%AF"
    title: "ケヴィン・バーク"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Burke"
    title: "Kevin Burke"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/27f804b3-6925-4c8f-b24e-9e642da63c65"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2061806"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump