The Open Division with sixteen contestants was as large as the combined Senior, Beginner and Junior Divisions, so this is a separate page to cover all contestants appropriately.
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- The top five winners of the 2019 Open Division: Rosemary Hall-3rd, Jessie Stark-2nd, Beth Davis-1st, Aaron Albrecht-4th & Sharon Graf-5th. A special thanks to Sharon Graf for sharing this delightful photo with the IOTFA. It nicely reveals the spirit and graciousness of the whole set of the 2019 Fiddle Contest Contestants!
Beth Davis: The 2019 Grand Champion, First Place Winner of the Open Division of the 2019 Illinois State Fiddle Contest.
This is the photo of Beth Davis what will appear in the Hall of Fame of the National Old Time Fiddle Contest of Weiser, ID.
2019 Grand Champion Beth Davis with the Open Division First Place Trophy and the Traveling Trophy.
The Open Division Contestants in Alphabetical Order
Two Open Division contestants have yet to provide permission to publish their photo on this page.
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- 2019 Open Division: Aaron Albrecht, 4th place, from Edwardsville with Quinten Voss and Blake Korte, both from Highland.
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- 2019 Open Division; Beth Davis, 1st place, of Carbondale with Chris Talley from New Athens.
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- 2019 Open Division: Jashua Dolan from Troy and his teacher, Chris Talley of New Athens.
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- 2019 Open Division: Sharon Graf, 5th place, from Springfield with Erick Eric Schroeder Schroeder of Rochester and Mark Mathewson of Athens.
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- 2019 Open Division: Robin Kearton of Urbana with Randall Stierwalt of Toledo.
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- 2019 Open Division: Gaye Harrison of Charleston with two fine accompanists, Quinten Voss and Blake Korte, both from Highland.
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- 2019 Open Division: Chris Marshall from Chicago with Jeff Derrickson of Mattoon
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- 2019 Open Division: Daliah Noven and her teacher, both of Urbana.
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- 2019 Open Division: Okano Susumu of Urbana with Matt Mathewson from Springfield.
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- 2019 Open Division: Trice Pisetta from St. Jacob with a fine young accompanist, Blake Korte of Highland.
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- 2019 Open Division: Tom Rezinas of Shelbyville with Jeff Derrickson from Mattoon.
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- 2019 Open Division: Jessie Stark, 2nd place, from Urbana and Chris Talley of New Athens.
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- 2019 Open Division: Chris Talley of New Athens.