Oops

The ceremonial presentation of the cheap red sunglasses to the fiddle winner.
The ceremonial presentation of the cheap red sunglasses to the fiddle winner.

A young friend of mine named Roger had a nice little racket going. He’d enter the old time fiddle competition at the Walnut Valley Festival in Winfield, Kansas, take second or third place, and go home with a shiny new fiddle. This year he goofed and took first. It will be five years before he can enter the fiddle competition again.1 Perhaps he’ll start collecting mandolins.

Roger

Contra dance band with twin fiddles: (Left to right) Tommy Jordan, Tyler Andal, Roger. I don't remember the guitarist's name.
Contra dance band with twin fiddles: (Left to right) Tommy Jordan, Tyler Andal, Roger, Dick Daniels.

The first tune Roger played in the first round of the competition, featuring Roger’s right foot on percussion:

Update: all the tunes, with much better sound than in the contest barn.

(Video by Mike Black.)

Notes

  1. First-place winners of any competition at Winfield are barred from entering that particular competition for five years. However, they can enter other competitions.