• 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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    Randall Franks (category American fiddlers)
    Randall Franks is an American film and television actor, author, and bluegrass singer and musician who plays fiddle, mandolin, guitar, and mountain dulcimer...
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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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    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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  • 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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    area of 1.7 million square km and more than 12,000 km of borders, in North America, Quebec is located in Central Canada. The province shares land borders...
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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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    highlands of Serbia these long poems are typically accompanied on a one-string fiddle called the gusle, and concern themselves with themes from history and mythology...
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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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  • Mike McLaughlin (category American Speed Association drivers)
    After part-time runs in 1992 and 1993, McLaughlin finally ran his first full-time schedule in the Busch Series in 1994, driving the No. 34 Fiddle Faddle Chevrolet...
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