CLIFFTOP, W.Va. – Twenty musicians, 12 bands and 12 dancers took home $7,450 in contest prize money during the 24th annual Appalachian String Band Music Festival at Camp Washington-Carver in Clifftop, Fayette County, from July 31-Aug. 4. Ten of the winners were from West Virginia, include Huntington’s own Tim Bing.
More than 4,000 musicians, dancers, fans and friends attended the West Virginia Division of Culture and History’s five-day event that features some of the nation’s finest string band musicians and flat-foot dancers. Participants and visitors included folks from 46 states and the District of Columbia as well as international visitors from Africa, Australia, Canada, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Ireland, Mexico, New Zealand, Sweden, Switzerland and The Netherlands, among others.
Contests were in four traditional contests – fiddle, banjo, string band and flat-foot dance — plus one neo-traditional string band contest.
The contest winners were:
BANJO: 1st place ($400), Tim Bing, Huntington; 2nd place ($200), Andrew Fitzgibbon, Montrose, W.Va.; 3rd place ($150), Seth Swingle, Earlysville, Va.; 4th place ($100), John Morris, Ivydale, W.Va.; 5th place ($50), Mary Sue Joy, Hollywood, Md.
YOUTH BANJO, 15 YEARS OF AGE AND UNDER: 1st place ($100), Victor Furtado, Front Royal, Va.; 2nd place ($50), Trevor Hammons, Marlinton, W.Va.; 3rd place
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