60th Annual Montana State Fiddle Contest

for [Music] [Music] I suppose thanks Andy got to keep our nourishment up you know yeah those are those are good I had a my wife got me Breakfast Bagel [Music] [Music] sandwich all right are we on Isaac I'm not [Music] on all right test test welcome back folks everybody have a good lunch got a little grub stretch the legs a little bit yeah it's kind of cool we got the uh farmers market going on behind here and lots of goodies over there I had a yummy Bagel breakfast sandwich this morning that was pretty good Andy's fixing me up with some caramels here so uh these I'll try these out in between talking so I can uh you know talk still got to chew those caramels well we're going to get going uh here in a little bit kickoff uh I don't think we have a a novice Division if anybody wants to enter the novice Division I don't know if they're going to do it but you I think the the the the rules are you you you can't have entered a novice division before but if you know a few Tunes you can go into it so but we'll be doing the adult round one and then we'll be doing second round for the peeee junior junior juniors and then that will bring us up to our dinner break and then uh continue on this evening so lots of fun stuff lots of good fiddlin coming up fun divisions KY is there a novice division are we just scratching that okay all right I tell you it's tough all right do we have a I don't know why I'm talking I need paperwork for adult round one I'll go hunt it down oh I can make a lot St huh for [Music] [Music] great e e State oldtime Fiddler Facebook and we're live so you can watch us from anywhere in the world pretty much maybe even the moon who knows and uh we got lots of goodies we got some cool t-shirts back here got some cool fiddle hats we got some T-shirts from last year so if you want to support the Fiddlers and pick up some fiddle bling check that out we also got some great raffle items on the back wall back there nice little Martin guitar donated by music Villa of Boseman that's a great little guitar I think it's 10 bucks for a ticket and uh you can see the gals over here at the uh check-in desk for that we also got back there some online lessons that were donated we got an Airbnb some artwork a bow fiddle bow reair and uh a ukulele nice wooden bowl from John Parker appreciate that so Andy you haven't we don't know where Willard might be yeah okay [Music] if you um we got some nice our nice little fiddle handbook here if you're looking through it's got some neat stuff in there e e e e e e Leah Hayden is your mom back there so judges there's eight contestants in the adult division eight contestants here's Leah making her grand entrance let's give Leah a hand Bravo Leah's from up in Cal spell my neck of the woods teaches fiddle up bear and keeps pretty busy she's going to be playing for ho down bilding low ground Festival Waltz and hadac Call Rag she's got Hayden Chad and Isaac backing her up and uh look a good take it away Aaliyah [Music] la n 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Taylor well I was looking at the shoes so and I take the best guess I could but all right Libby whenever you're ready a [Music] n [Music] [Applause] oh [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] the [Music] n [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] w [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] n [Music] oh [Music] [Music] [Applause] wo all right sounding good thank you Libby Libby Rogers okay cruising right along here in the adult division contestant number six Louise Steinway calendar let's give her a hand yay Louise she keeps busy oh I didn't give you a tun sheet uh I was just going to pick some songs for you okay well Louise what are you going to do for us um I'm going to play uh Brandy Wine the Mississippi Walts and Willow Springs I think we'll try we'll try those ones anyway we'll find out just up their game hope I win that one kind [Music] of wolf took my tuner [Music] well he did all right g go [Music] [Music] a [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] 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Denton she's going to be playing Bitter Creek Morning Star Walts and the hot foot rag she's got Taylor and I Isaac backing her up and Finny whenever you're ready hand here [Music] [Applause] n [Music] [Applause] the [Applause] [Music] w [Music] [Music] la [Music] [Music] [Music] a [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] n [Music] [Applause] [Applause] n [Applause] [Music] [Applause] all right sounding good nice job Infinity okay well that brings up to our last and final contestant in the adult division August with them let's give August a hand here August is from Twin Bridges he's going to be playing the Wagner's hornpipe Gypsy Waltz and the Red Apple rag looks like he's got Hayden and Chad little mic adjustments there and uh August whenever you're ready e [Music] no w [Applause] that [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] n a [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] a for [Music] [Applause] the all right sounding good there buddy thank you August August Witham okay well that wraps up our adults let's give those adults a big hand there nice job [Applause] everybody yeah well we'll be moving into uh round two of the Pee-Wee next we'll give our judges a minute to kind of wrap up a few details and uh get the paperwork done there's that Infinity okay if you are in the and you uh get your tune sheets turn those into infinity and um well guys just kind of hang out we're not quite ready yet but we'll get there don't don't pull it there's a little button we got to push it's a little high for I don't know uh eight testing Cody what are you playing again what's your uh are you a peeee okay [Music] Bo we'll get going here in a minute oh okay give our judges a minute to jokes are you guys about ready good jokes not ready jokes okay well we're going to get going on the pee's here and uh Bood he's ready he's front and center and tuned up and ready to go judges there's eight contestants in the peeee division and um first up is going to be bod bardetti did I get right right close all right so he and I have a tun sheet for him he's from Sheridan he's going to be playing goodbye Lia Jane Aaron boat song and chase me Charlie he's got Ed and Hartford backing them up so B whenever you're ready [Music] a [Music] [Music] yeah right [Applause] [Music] oh the [Music] [Applause] [Music] w [Applause] d [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] all right nice job there buod sounding great All Right contestant number two would be Clark hugan in he's over there getting all tuned up ready to go all right let's give Clark a hand he's coming on up here well Clark do you got it figured out where you're going to play or you want me to pick them for you you don't want me to pick your tunes you can announce what you you can announce what you're going to play I'm going to be playing Arkansas's traveler and blue M Walts and Lady be good all righty buddy [Music] d [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] the [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] the e e e 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