2025 Idaho State Fiddle & Picking Contest

Another fiddle contest in the books! Our numbers were smaller, but the talent was still mighty!  Here is this year's results.

 

Novice Jr. Jr. Fiddle 

1st Brigham Parkes

2nd Abbie Butikofer

 

Novice Jr. Fiddle 

1st Emily Glover

2nd Annie Thompson

3rd Annalise Burningham

 

Certified Small Fry Fiddle 

1st Lincoln Landon

 

Certified Jr Jr Fiddle 

1st Mason Reynolds

2nd Josie Call

 

Certified Jr Fiddle 

1st Rachel Beck

2nd Charley Livingston

3rd Kaiya Hernandez

 

Certified Adult Fiddle 

1st Eliza Beck

2nd Eric Anderson

 

Certified Senior Fiddle 

1st Shaun Foster

2nd Halli Stone

 

Certified Grand Champion Fiddle 

1st Carson Dungan

2nd Andrew Beck

3rd Beck LiaBraaten

 

Junior Picking 

1st Gracie Baird

2nd Eliana Nash

 

Adult Picking 

1st Eliza Beck

2nd Austin Taylor

3rd Eric Anderson

4th Jeff May

 

Twin Fiddle

1st Eliza and Rachel Beck

2nd  Brigham and Malinda Parks

 

Youngest Fiddler - Lincoln Landon

Oldest Fiddler - Halli Stone

 

2024 Idaho State Fiddle & Picking Contest

Can you believe we had 88 participants this year - WOW!   We had over 20 cities represented in Idaho. Some of our out-of-state contestants  came from California, Nevada, Oregon and even Alaska. We moved the contest to Mountain Home High School and had a great event there.  Our Oldest Fiddler was Martin Fewkes and Hadley Walrath was our youngest at age 5.

 

Novice Junior Junior 

1- Syrina Judd

2- Sydney Maughan

3- Eliza Nilsson

4- Evert Schmidt

5- Maddox Reynolds

 

Novice Junior 

1- Jadon Maughan

2- Charley Livingston

3- Paysley Bayne

4- Titus Graham

5- Paris Ruggs

 

Novice Adult

1- Analee Clayson

2- Lizzy Kunz

3- Ella Farrell

4- Vanessa Carpenter

5- Marina Johnson

 

Small Fry Certified

1- Lincoln Landon

2- Trevor Jensen

3- Gracie Teeter

4- Hadley Walrath

5- Micah Maughan

 

Junior Junior Certified

1- Sorella High

2- Kambri Jensen

3- Roslyn McCarver

4- Vanessa Gridasova

5- Ethan Teeter

 

Junior

1- Eliza Beck

2- Adrienne Jensen

3- Jetta Brooks

4- Lars Hogborn

5-  Daniela Gridasova

 

Adult

1- Carson Dungan

2- Eric Anderson

3- Libby Rogers

4 - McKenna Jensen

5- Ben LiaBraaten

 

Senior

1-Martin Fewkes

 

Open Champion

1- Jacie Sites

2- McKaela Ruggs

3- Carson Dungan

4- Libby Rogers

5- Rachel Beck

 

Twin Fiddling

1- Eliza & Rachel Beck

2- Adrienne & McKenna Jensen

3- Roslyn McCarver & Jetta Brooks

4- Ella & Lucy Alkire

5- Mia Gemellos & Libby Rogers

 

Junior Picking

1-Andrew Beck

2- Lars Hogborn

3- Faith Minic

4- Roscoe Brooks

5- Wyatt Schmidt

 

Adult Picking

1- Eric Anderson

 

2023 Idaho State Fiddle & Picking Contest 

Thank for everyone who came out and participated this year.  We had some amazing talent from the following 13 cities of Idaho:

Blackfoot, Boise, Caldwell, Filer, Idaho Falls, Kimberly, Kuna, Melba, Meridian, Middleton, Nampa, Rigby, and Twin Falls.  And a contestant from Oregon and Arizona too!  Our youngest fiddler was 6 years; our oldest was 68.  What a fantastic turn out!

 

Small Fry 

1-Alex Ellis

2-McKinzi Egbert

3-Trevor Jensen

4-Emery Canfield

5-Roscoe Brooks

 

Junior Junior

1-Adrienne Jensen

2-Sorella High

3-Kambri Jensen

4-Emily Fawkes

5-Lyla Woodland

 

Junior

1- Jetta Brooks

2 - Eliza Beck

3-Jaidynn Lee

4-Maggi Cucitro

5-Lars Hagbom

6-Rachel Beck

 

Adult

1-Cristin Newhall

2-Aaron Fewks

3-Libby Rogers

 

Senior

1-Martin Fewkes

 

Open Champion

1-Laura Black

2-Libby Rogers

 

Twin Fiddling

1-Libby Rogers & Jaiden Lee

2-Heather Tiel-Nelson & Jenni Nelson

3-Lyla Woodlawn & Andrew Beck

 

Junior Picking

1-Andrew Beck

2-Landon Manthei

 

Swing

1-Rachel Beck

 

Band

1-Rachel, Andrew, and Richard Beck

2-Landon, Gabe and Angie Manthei

 

Novice

1-Heather Tiel-Nelson

2-Jennifer Narasaki

3-Charity Fusselman

 

Accompanist

1-Katrina Nejely

2-Andrew Beck