NEWS - FREE GMFC Youth Fiddle Workshop JUNE 30, 2022

The GMFC is offering a Free Youth Fiddle Workshop on June 30, 2022, hosted at the W. O. Smith School of Music  in Nashville, TN. Led by Former Grand Master Fiddler Champion Justin Branum, the workshop will cover beginning to advanced fiddle concepts, demonstrations, and activities. Fiddlers 18 years of age or younger are eligible.  All registered participants will receive materials including sheet music, USB drives with recorded music and other resources.  Registration is limited to 30 people. There is no cost for the workshop. For more information, please click here.

The 51st Annual Grand Master Fiddler Championship will be held on Saturday September 3rd and Sunday September 4th, 2022 (Labor Day Weekend), in Nashville, Tennessee, at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in the Ford Theater.  Contestants from all over the world will compete for the Champion titles in Youth, Traditional, and Open categories.

The Grand Master Fiddler Championship Inc. is organized as a Tennessee nonprofit and U.S. IRS 501(c)(3) charitable corporation, formed to educate about and perpetuate fiddling as an art form and cultural treasure. The corporation's primary focus is holding the annual Grand Master Fiddler Championship competition - an event that has started many young musicians on their way to a career in music. As a 501(c)(3) entity, all donations are tax deductible, and we welcome your support to promote and educate about fiddling. Fund-raising efforts are being planned in order to expand the competition, enhance our educational efforts, and to further the awareness of fiddling around the globe.

Fiddling laid the foundation of the WSM Grand Ole Opry and remains important to country and bluegrass music today. For a quarter-century, the contest was sponsored by WSM, the Grand Ole Opry, the Country Music Association, and later by Gaylord Entertainment.  When financially able, the GMFC makes donations to such charities as the Grand Ole Opry Trust Fund and the Bluegrass Trust Fund which benefit musicians in need.  We do this in honor of the contributions of the pioneers to country, bluegrass and traditional music. Many of these pioneers such as Roy Acuff, Porter Wagoner, "Uncle Jimmy" Thompson, Bill Monroe, Howdy Forrester and Tommy Jackson played the fiddle or were very involved with fiddling. We have also donated fiddles/violins to the W. O. Smith Community Music School in Nashville.

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2022 Dr. Perry F. Harris Distinguished Fiddler Award Recipient

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