This  page will be expanded as time permits.

Videos of Past Contest Winners

• See the list of Past Grand Champions.

Videos of Past Contests

• 2016
  • All contestants playing “Red Wing”
  • 2016 Illinois State Fiddle Championship 30 videos
• 2015
  • Junior Division Contestant #8 (2015 Illinois State Fiddle Contest)
  • Junior Division Contestant Jausha Shanda playing “P W Waltz” and “Limerock”

Videos of  Other State & National Fiddle Contests

• Bob Wills Fiddle Festival and Contest – Open Division – Jason Andrew

Videos to Inspire Us

• Cotton Patch Rag: The Western Flyers – Katie Glassman, Joey McKenzie, Gavin Kelso
• Justin Branum playing ‘Panhandle Rag’
• Mark O’Conner playing “Tom and Jerry” at 13 years old.
• Clark Kessinger Plays “Sally Ann Johnson” at Newport, Age 70
• Orange Blossom Special by the author, Ervin T. Rouse, accompanied by this brother Gordon Rouse and recorded in 1939 or this 1945 re-cut published in 2004 (Audio only)  Some say Chubby Wise wrote this song.  The copyright apparently bears Rouse’s name, but this recording is impressive.  By the way, you may be surprised by the Rouse rendition.

Fiddle Styles

Old Timey/Traditional

• Red Prairie Dawn (by Garry Harrison) performed by: Mike Witcher – Dobro; Grant Gordy – Guitar; Miranda Sykes – Bass; Rex Preston – Mandolin; Laura Carrivick – Fiddle

Old Time

• Mark O’Conner playing “Tom and Jerry” at 13 years old

Western Swing

• Cotton Patch Rag: The Western Flyers – Katie Glassman, Joey McKenzie, Gavin Kelso
• Justin Branum playing ‘Panhandle Rag’
• The Time Jumpers, Sugar Moon
• Hot Club of Cowtown playing Ida Red, live on Larry’s Country Diner (RFD-TV). Broadcast August 23, 2014.

• San Antonio Rose (Live 40s) Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys

Gypsy Jazz

• Tim & Suzanne: Gypsy Jazz  16 videos
• Gypsy Guitar Academy

Bluegrass Fiddle

Canadian