Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
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Lots of practice makes for great fiddlers.
Fiddler Lorelai Kline plays the mandatory Hoe Down number during the first round of the day long competition.
Smiling and ready for the competition is Junior Division fiddler Abi Halsey.
One of the fun events of every contest is the Band Scramble. Bands are made up on the spot, songs are selected and pratice begins. The bands are judged and a winner is selected.
Ethan Yang, performs for the judges who are in a different room listening, and know each contestant by their contest number only.
Even after 4 years of playing contestant Joy Robb, practices heavily before playing in competition.
5 year old Lilli Robbins, looks at the fiddle she hopes to be playing one day alongside her older sister fiddler Ginevra Robbins, who competes in the Junior Junior Division.
On March 10, Disctrict 3 of the California State Old Time Fiddlers Association held its ninth annual Amateur Old Time Fiddle Contest at the Tehachapi Valley United Methodist Church. Contestants 20 years of age and younger entered this free competition, some coming from as far as Hanford, Calif.
