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By the 1980s, the contest grew to hosting over 150 fiddlers and eight separate classes. [2] The name of the event changed over the years, from the "Canadian Open Championship Old Time Fiddlers’ Contest," to "The National Fiddle Contest," and more recent returning to a version of the original as the "Canadian Open Old Time Fiddle Championship ...
The Grand North American Old Time Fiddle Championship is the longest-running annual fiddle contest in Alberta, held in mid-July. [1] The event started in 1981, becoming part of Klondike Days (known as K-Days ) in the 1990s, and with virtual contests held during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and 2021. [ 2 ]
Several regional competitions and associations help sponsor their provincial representatives to ensure their best fiddlers are sent, including the Grand North American Old Time Fiddle Championship who award funds to their top three Albertan contestants. The event has become one of the highest honours to be invited to as a Canadian fiddler, with ...
He continued to compete in fiddle contests and won the Maritime Fiddle Festival Champion Class in 1996, [7] and the Canadian Open Old Time Fiddle Championship in 1993 and 1996. [8] Scott Woods also won the Canadian Grand Masters Fiddling Competition in 1998 and 1999, as well as finished in the top eleven finalists between 1992-2005, including ...
Cherney won the Canadian Old Time Fiddlers' Contest in Ontario, under the novelty class from 1959 to 1961 and the open class in both 1960 and 1961. In the early 1970s, he was a leading studio musician, recording with musician like Gary Buck, Dick Damron, Tommy Hunter, Jesse Winchester and Sylvia Tyson. He released more than ten studio albums ...
[11] Calvin was raised on the Don Messer's Jubilee and received his first fiddle at age eight. It was soon apparent to many that Calvin was a natural talent on the fiddle. At 13, he entered his first fiddle contest and began winning the championship classes of various fiddle contests at age 17. [12]
Fiddlers from all over. There were many great musicians in Wooster Sunday, including 18-year-old Nicole Tressler of Canton, Michigan, who won the 12-18 age group category top prize of $125.
Gordon Stobbe (/ ˈ s t oʊ b i / STOH-bee; [1] born 1945–46) C.M is a Canadian fiddler, multi-instrumentalist, and composer based in Seaforth, Nova Scotia.Stobbe was born in Saskatchewan, but has made his home on the East Coast of Canada since 1977.