The Forty-Sixth Annual Grand Master Fiddler Championship will be held on Saturday September  and Sunday September 3, 2017 (Labor Day Weekend), in Nashville, Tennessee, at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in the Ford Theater.  

You can see the competition LIVE as it happens!

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The GMFC sends its best wishes, thoughts and prayers to all the people affect by Hurricane Harvey.  Several of our Texas musicians friends and competitors cannot attend this year due to damage to their homes or those of loved ones, or because of canceled flights. You will be missed and we wish you a speedy recovery!

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.

It is a well-known fact that fiddling laid the foundation of the WSM Grand Ole Opry and reamins 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 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.

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Woody Paul Chrisman, recipient of the Dr. Perry F. Harris Distinguished Fiddler Award at the 2016 Grand Master Fiddler Championship. With Howard Harris and the rest of The Riders in The Sky.