Fiddle contests and old-time music in Washington
Fiddle contests and old-time music in Washington, each compiled from its own sources: dates, divisions, and where the jams happen. No ratings; every entry carries its status.
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- Festival of American Fiddle Tunes (Centrum), Fort Worden, Port Townsend WAPort Townsend · All-day music festivalA week of fiddle classes, dances and late jams at Fort Worden State Park in Port Townsend, Washington, whose concerts fill a converted balloon hangar.
- Fiddlers on the Peak fiddle contest, Addy WAAddy · Old time fiddle and pickingAn old-time fiddle and picking contest held each May in the Addy Grange, Stevens County, Washington, and named for its first home near the 49 North ski resort.
- Oly Old Time Festival, Olympia WAOlympia · Annual old-time music festivalA four-day midwinter gathering of old-time string music and called square dances in Olympia, Washington, begun in 2008 at house jams, with every daytime workshop free.
- Sisco Heights Community Club old-time jams, Arlington WAArlingtonThis is a friendly, non-threatening, circle-jam, and a lot of fun. Acoustic instrument players of all ages and levels welcomed, as are listeners and (if we are lucky) dancers.
- Tumbleweed Music Festival, Howard Amon ParkRichland · FreeThe Tumbleweed Music Festival is a free acoustic gathering each Labor Day weekend in Richland's Howard Amon Park on the Columbia, run entirely by volunteers since 1997.
- WAMA Pickersfest, Oakview Grange, Centralia/Winlock WACentralia · Acoustic music festivalAn acoustic music festival of workshops, genre jams, and campground picking, held each August at Oakview Grange in north Centralia since leaving Winlock's Winolequa Park in 2024.
Old-Time Music in all eleven states; next door in Idaho and Oregon.