The Grand North American Old Time Fiddle Championship is the longest-running annual fiddle contest in Alberta, held in mid-July. The event started in 1981...
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founding member of the Alberta Old Tyme Fiddlers' Association, which started the Grand North American Old Time Fiddle Championship. St. Germain hosted over...
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Calvin Vollrath (section Fiddle)
European-Canadian fiddle players playing professionally in the Métis style. He lives in St. Paul, Alberta. Vollrath won the Grand North American Old Time Fiddle Championship...
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coveted list." The Grand North American Old Time Fiddle Championship even sponsors the top three Albertan contestants to go to the Grand Masters. Besides...
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was also the featured guest artist for the first Grand North American Old Time Fiddle Championship in Alberta. Townsend also performed in a tribute show...
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Roger Tilton's film Pilots North was screened in 1982. In the 1990s, the Grand North American Old Time Fiddle Championship shifted to be in conjunction...
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entertainment events in the city. Edmonton is also hosts the Grand North American Old Time Fiddle Championship each summer in July, which showcases some of the best...
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The Maritime Fiddle Festival is the longest running old-time fiddle contest in Canada. It is also the largest fiddle contest in the region. Occurring...
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Bobby Hicks (category People from Newton, North Carolina)
Fame in 2017. Hicks was born in Newton, North Carolina, and learned to play the fiddle before he was 9 years old. He attended several fiddlers conventions...
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Pembroke, ON fiddle competition 6 time Manitoba Fiddle Champion 3 time Grand North American Champion Canadian Grand Masters Fiddling Championship in Ottawa...
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Ste. Anne area. In 1984, it hosted the first ever Grand North American Old Time Fiddle Championship, which acted as a fundraiser for the community. Wabamun...
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Randall Franks (category American fiddlers)
Franks co-hosts America's Grand Master Fiddler Championship in Nashville at the Country Music Hall of Fame. Franks recorded four fiddle recordings including...
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Mark O'Connor (category American bluegrass fiddlers)
1961) is an American fiddle player, composer, guitarist, and mandolinist whose music combines bluegrass, country, jazz and classical. A three-time Grammy Award...
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kway-bee) grew up in North Texas. After briefly studying classical violin, in 1998 the sisters switched to fiddle when they attended the North Texas State Fair...
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Canadian Open Old Time Fiddle Championship held in Shelburne, ON in 2001, 2003 and 2005. as well as three Canadian Grand Masters championships in 2000, 2002...
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Dan Levenson (musician) (category Appalachian old-time fiddlers)
his work are: 2005 Ohio Clawhammer Banjo Championship, first place 2010 Ajo, Arizona Fiddle Contest, Grand Champion 2017 Master Artist Award from Arizona's...
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Alison Krauss (category Grand Ole Opry members)
she won the Walnut Valley Festival Fiddle Championship, and the Society for the Preservation of Bluegrass in America named her the "Most Promising Fiddler...
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Matt Combs (category Grand Ole Opry members)
during his time there his love for fiddle music became a driver for his post-college plans. After winning the 1996 Rockygrass Fiddle Championship in Lyons...
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Quebec (section British North America (1763–1867))
the reel and line dancing. Traditional instruments include harmonica, fiddle, spoons, jaw harp and accordion. The First Nations and the Inuit of Quebec...
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Becky Buller (category 21st-century American musicians)
Barber’s Fiddle” and the 2020 Song for co-writing and fiddling on Special Consensus’ “Chicago Barn Dance.” She has made guest appearances on WSM’s Grand Ole...
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Was 88 Five-time Olympian Butch Johnson dies aged 68 Bill Walton, NBA Hall of Famer who won 2 championships, dies at 71 Prominent American Theatre Scholar...
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Minnesota (redirect from North Star State)
Manitoba and Ontario to the north and east and by the U.S. states of Wisconsin to the east, Iowa to the south, and North Dakota and South Dakota to the...
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Wayne Newton (category North High School (Phoenix, Arizona) alumni)
the Grand Ole Opry. While he was a child, his family moved near Newark, Ohio. He began singing in local clubs, theaters, and fairs with his older brother...
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List of Louisiana state high school football champions (section Informal state championship games (1907–1929))
their small, Class A-sized Grand Avenue team died in a car wreck just two hours after returning from winning the state championship game over Good Pine, 27–0...
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Nashville, Tennessee (redirect from North Nashville)
Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, the city was founded in 1779 when this territory was still considered part of North Carolina. The city...
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Payson is the site of the annual Arizona State Old Time Fiddlin' Championship, held in September. The fiddle contest features both local and nationally known...
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Dixie Dregs (category Use American English from March 2023)
Nashville's Grand Masters Fiddle Championship for their 1982 release, Industry Standard. This album introduced vocals for the first time, as a further...
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2016 in the United States (redirect from 2016 in American politics)
teammates Moriah Jefferson and Morgan Tuck. This is the first time in any major North American sports draft that a single school produced the top three selections...
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Vince McMahon (category Businesspeople from North Carolina)
with Trump but retracted his hand as Trump put out his. McMahon went on to fiddle with Trump's tie and flick Trump's nose. This angered Trump as he then slapped...
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Morristown, Tennessee (category 1787 establishments in North Carolina)
years old at the time. John Crockett constructed a log cabin that later served as a tavern, and a hospital treating smallpox during the American Civil...
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