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The Fred Oldfield Western Heritage Center welcomes you to the 2009 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 Earl Calvert, Drew Konzelman and Lyn Neal.
This contest is coordinated with the Washington Old Time Fiddlers Association; District 8, and will be conducted over the course of two days (Friday, 13 November and Saturday, 14 November) and any fiddler or picker is eligible and welcome to register and participate.
Alaska Airlines is helping us out and has generously donated Two Round Trip Tickets to be Raffled by the FOWHC to anywhere Alaska flies to benefit the Festival. These Raffle Tickets can be purchased at the Heritage Center or call at 253-445-9175.
Friday, 13 November, we will offer 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 $15.00 per individual, with a maximum of 25% discount for additional family members ($11.25 for each additional family member), and does not include admission to anything else. 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. Groups interested in attending the class should contact the center, or contest manager for group discounts.
For more information you are more than welcome to visit and join our Facebook page - FRED OLDFIELD OLD TIME FIDDLE FESTIVAL -
The workshops being offered are:
Friday, 13 Nov, 4:00 PM -- Jim Ketterman's Appalachian fiddle tunes
Additional workshops will be scheduled soon so please check back
Friday, 13 November, will also offer an afternoon Variety Show beginning at 1:00 PM and finishing up at 3:00 PM. Our Friday Afternoon Concert is a special event honoring Senior Citizens (55 years of age and older) and their cost is only $8.00. All others may attend but their cost for Fri afternoon would be $10.00 and $7.50 for children under 12.
Entertainment Division and Beer Tasting.
This division will allow any groups/ individuals to perform, judged by local community judges and the audience.Show starts at 7pm. Rules for the Entertainment Division are located through this link. (The Friday Night Entertainment Showcase Rules are also available as a PDF file at this link.)
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 2009
or as a PDF file F&P_OfficialRules_09.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 2009
or as a PDF file TwinFiddleRules09.pdf (18Kb)
The Fiddle Contest Schedule, Fiddler Divisions by age and Prizes can be viewed and printed here (please allow a
pop-up window):Contest Schedule 2009
or as a PDF file fiddle_schedule2009.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
For more information you are more than welcome to visit and join our Facebook page - FRED OLDFIELD OLD TIME FIDDLE FESTIVAL -
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 downloading to play. Click this link for many more favorite fiddle tunes
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