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The Fred Oldfield Western Heritage Center welcomes you to the 2008 Fiddler's & Pickers Contest with over $1700 in cash prizes available to the winners. The judges lending their expertise to this event will be the well known and respected Ramon Selby, Liddy Voetberg and Marty Dahlgren.
This contest is coordinated with the Washington Old Time Fiddlers Association; District 8, and will be conducted over the course of two days (Friday, 8 August and Saturday, 9 August) and any fiddler or picker is eligible and welcome to register and participate.
Friday, 8 August, we will offer three workshops. Each will be approximately 1 hour and are designed for intermediate level (or above) players. Participants are encouraged to bring their instrument, a recording device and plan to have fun! Cost for each is $10.00 per individual, with a maximum of $30.00 per family, and includes entry in to the fiddle contest and grounds on August 9, 2008. For Participants already registered for the Fiddle Contest as well as back up players, the cost is discounted to $5.00 for each workshop participant with a maximum of $15.00 per family per class.
The three workshops are:
Friday, 8 Aug, 11:00 AM -- Jim Ketterman's Appalachian fiddle tunes
Friday, 8 Aug, 12:30 PM -- Dale Olson’s Hot licks for the guitar
Friday, 8 Aug, 6:30 PM -- Lyn Neal's 2 Swing Tunes on fiddle
Friday, 8 August, will also offer an afternoon Variety Show beginning at 2:00 PM and finishing up at 4:00 PM. Our Friday Afternoon Concert is a special event honoring Senior Citizens (55 years of age and older) and their cost is only $5. All others may attend but their cost for Fri afternoon would be $7.50 and $5 for children under 12.
Saturday is the day of the Fiddle Contest itself along with an evening variety show. Friday evening's performance offers a discounted ticket for Senior Citizens (55 years of age and older). Costs for the evening performance are $7.50 for Seniors and children under 12 and $10.00 for all others. The featured group for Saturday night is Hank and Eulaine Blumenthal's Ozark Music, starting off with Rocking HW. All Fiddle Contest Winners are invited to play in the evening show. Show times will be announced when firmed up.
Please check back often as we will be adding more information. In the meantime you may order tickets for the
show(s) either by phone, at the FOWHC itself or by "snail mail" by printing and
filling out the form for the shows or to register for the fiddle contest as a
participant:
Click here
for the Show tickets purchase form in PDF format
Click here for the Fiddler
Contestant Registration Form (PDF file)
The Official Contest Rules for contestants can be viewed and printed at this
link (please allow a pop-up window): Official Rules 2008
or as a PDF file F&P_OfficialRules_08.pdf (36Kb)
The Official Twin Fiddle Rules for contestants can be viewed and printed at this
link (please allow a pop-up window): Official Twin Fiddle Rules 2008
or as a PDF file TwinFiddleRules08.pdf (18Kb)
The Fiddle Contest Schedule can be viewed and printed here (please allow a
pop-up window):Contest Schedule 2008
or as a PDF file fiddle_schedule2008.pdf (56Kb)
We're located at the Red Gate at the Puyallup Fairgrounds, and lots of Parking is available in the grass lot across from the Red Gate. Red Gate is on 9th Ave SW . Puyallup, WA.
RV Parking is available so if needed please contact The Puyallup Fair & Events Center at 253-841-5057 or 253-845-1771, or see their RV page on policies and pricing at www.thefair.com/utility/visitor-info/rv-parking.php
For further questions contact Merrillee Goodroad at:
fredsfiddlecontest@gmail.com or 253-471-7594
While checking back you might be interested in listening to some more fiddling. Click this link for more songs and please realize that the music at the source is about 100 times better than these that are reduced to "telephone quality" to reduce their size for downloaqding to play. Click this link for many more favorite fiddle tunes
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