The Walnut Valley Association congratulates this 
2017 Bluegrass Banjo Champion
1st Place – Kyle Tuttle from Nashville, TN
2017 National Flat Pick Guitar Champion
1st Place – Andy Hatfield from Peoria, IL
2017 Walnut Valley Old Time Fiddle Champion
1st Place – Tyler Andal from Nashville, TN
2017 National Mandolin Champion
1st Place Winner: Isaac Eicher from Nashville, TN
Canadian Bluegrass/Country Fiddle sensation Rosemary Siemens has taken one of nine Gold Medals in the Global Music Awards.
Global Music Awards is a top-tier international music competition that honors talented musicians around the world. It is a showcase for musical gems and unique voices.
The Grand Master Champion for 2015 is Aynsley Porchak of Woodstock, Ont., Canada. Trustin Baker of Mo. placed second.
The two-day 44th annual Grand Master Fiddler Championship is the nation’s championship event held at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville, Tenn. on Sept. 26 and 27, 2015.
"Annie Staninec plays the fiddle with authority way beyond her years....she manages to be both inventive and traditional," says band leader, Kathy Kallick.
Now fiddle students can get a little bit of Annie's wisdom in her new book TRADITIONAL BLUEGRASS SOLOS.
| The National Fiddlers Hall of Fame will induct the 2015 class of inductees on May 28, 2015, 7:30pm at the Broken Arrow, Oklahoma Performing Arts Center (BAPAC). The induction ceremony and concert will feature performances by Tulsa’s Jana Jae, fellow inductee Jay Ungar, along with several previous inductees and area fiddle artists. The distinguished list of 2015 inductees includes: The “First Lady of Country Fiddle,” Jana Jae. Jae gained fame playing fiddle tunes on a blue violin during television's long-running Hee Haw series. |
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Fiddler Tex Logan who played with Bill Monroe in the 1960s has been hospitalized upon his doctors orders.
After a trip to the local Emergency Room, daughter Jodi Logan says they found too much potassium in the blood due to a kidney disease, a condition known as hyperkalemia.
One of the largest active Oldtime Fiddle Music associations in the USA with over 1300 total members, the Oregon Oldtime Fiddlers Assoc. (OOTFA) has marked half a century of promoting, preserving and perpetuating the art of Old -Time Fiddling.
Oregon Oldtime Fiddlers’ are gearing up for their Annual State Convention to be held at the Polk County Fairgrounds in Rickreall Oregon.
The fiddle is one of the key ingredients to The Short Mountain Brothers sound, without it there is a huge void.
The group, based out of West Virginia, is currently looking to add a new fiddle player - someone who is willing to travel around the east coast, has plenty of stage experience, at least 2 years of playing experience, harmony vocalist is a plus, but not a requirement, and must be willing to perform 2-3 nights a week.
The Grand Master Champion for 2014 is Katrina Nicolayeff of Boise, Idaho.
Nicolayeff joins Mark O'Connor, Matthew Hartz, and Danita Rast Gardner as three-time champions. Jesse Maw of Kalispell, Montana placed second.
Held annually each year on the 3rd weekend in September, the Walnut Valley Festival is the home of the International Autoharp Championship, the International Fingerstyle Guitar, the National Mountain Dulcimer, the National Flat Pick Guitar Championship, the National Hammered Dulcimer Championship and the National Bluegrass Banjo Championship.
Other contests held at the Walnut Valley Festival are the National Mandolin Championship and the Walnut Valley Old Time Fiddle.
....AND THE WINNERS ARE . . .
Organizers at the 1890s Day Jamboree Old Time Fiddlers Convention in Ringgold, Ga welcomed over 125 contestants including fiddlers, guitarists, mandolinists, bands, banjo players, and cloggers from states across the south on May 24, 2014.
The King of Cowboy Fiddlers, Woody Paul (Riders In The Sky) and Fiddler Ketch Secor (Old Crow Medicine Show) got together recently at The Fiddle House in East Nashville playing some of their favorite old time fiddle tunes.
"As old time music was eclipsed by bluegrass, the role of the violin completely changes where it's this instrumentalist role," said Secor
20 of the top tunes for 20 bucks! That's the deal from Fiddler Magazine's recent compilation CD/book set celebrating their first 20 years.
Tunes from twenty master fiddlers featured in Fiddler Magazine's first twenty years.
Breaking Grass has announced double honors for the man holding down their fiddle position.
First, Tyler White just recently took the first place price in the state of Mississippi’s Fiddle Championship. The contest was held in New Albany, MS last Saturday, May 18th.
In celebration of the very first World Fiddle Day, (Today, May 18, 2013) we put together some of our favorite fiddle “fotos” from around the web to share.
Somewhat surprising as it is considering just how many centuries the world has been making music by striking a bow against a tightly anchored set of strings, until now no official holiday anywhere in the world exists to celebrate the family of fiddle instruments.
On Saturday May 18th, 2013 the first WORLD FIDDLE DAY will occur.
A live radio version of Jay Ungar and Molly Mason’s Fiddler’s Feast is to be broadcast on radio Wednesday, April 10th at 8pm ET.
The radio version of the popular touring performance will be broadcast on WAMC Northeast Public Radio serving parts of seven northern states but anyone anywhere can listen to the online stream at WAMC.org. The station features a variety popular online players.
On the show will also be Alasdair Fraser and Natalie Haas performing Scottish tunes and Dirk Powel with his deeply rooted American music.
Or is it the artist in Tom Rozum (mandolin player and singing partner with Laurie Lewis) that first saw this twist of nature.
Tom and Laurie on a recent tour through southern Arizona caught a glimpse of this “Fiddlin’ Cactus”
