North Florida Bluegrass Association Award Winners
2006 NFBA Board Member of the Year
Doug Ledford
Mr. Membership
NFBA EXPO 2005 Award Winners
The NFBA is proud to announce the recipients of the 2005 awards presented at the NFBA EXPO in November 2005.
Lorraine Keener - Slo-Jam Coordinator
NFBA Member of the Year - 2005
Stan Tollick
Winner of Mike Long Guitar - 2005
Joshua Teed
NFBA Music Scholarship - 2005
The NFBA would like to congratulate Joshua on winning this year’s music scholarship. He is a great inspiration to musicians young and old. Keep up the good work Joshua!
Below you will find his winning entry. He sent in both his handwritten and typed copies.
What inspired your interest in Bluegrass Music?
I wanted to play Bluegrass because they play unlike any other fiddler I have ever seen. I started playing when I was about five. My first fiddle piece was Boil Them Cabbages Down. Soon I started going to fiddle concerts like Mike O’Connor and Barrage and I
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NFBA EXPO 2004 Award Winners
The NFBA is proud to announce the recipients of the 2004 awards presented at the NFBA EXPO in November 2004
Ira "Whit" Crews
NFBA Member of the Year - 2004
Jerry Neill
Winner of Resonator Guitar - 2004
Emily Rebecca Miller
NFBA Music Scholarship - 2004
My name is Emily Miller, and I am a sixteen-year-old bluegrass musician. I was first introduced to bluegrass music around Christmas of 1999. My parents had a party and Dad invited some musicians over to play. A man by the name of Denny Williams played bluegrass banjo and guitar. I came to know it as bluegrass. I was so impressed that I picked up my Dad's guitar the next day and said, "I'm going to play this just like Denny one day."
I started playing guitar and learned a few songs to sing. Then, last summer I got a mandolin for my birthday and started taking lessons. Today, I am ta
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Abigail Dawn Crawford
NFBA Music Scholarship - 2004
While other teens are listening to rock and country, the only music you'll find in my CD case is bluegrass! For all of my seventeen years, I have grown up listening to bluegrass music. I have always enjoyed groups like Rhonda Vincent and the Rage, IIIrd Time Out, and Blue Highway. Gosh, since bluegrass music is all my parents ever listened to, it was perfectly natural for me to do the same! From a very young age, listening to these groups inspired me to learn to play bluegrass music.
Something sparked inside of me while sitting on the front row at a bluegrass festival watching Rhon
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2008 N.FL Regional Competition Winners
North Florida Regional Bluegrass music Competition 2008 winners
CHRIS KALAKAS
DOBRO
ANGELICA GRIM Band
VOCAL BAND 1ST RUNNER UP
BRIAN ANDREWS
MASTERS GUITAR
CLAYTON HARRELL
JR. GUITAR
HANNAH BUZ
JR.FIDDLE
MICHAEL ANDREWS
JR. MANDOLIN
MICHAEL ANDREWS
SR. BANJO
THE DOREFEL FAMILY
VOCAL BAND
WIRE AND WOOD
INSTUMENTAL BAND
WIRE AND WOOD
2ND RUNNER UP
Life Time Achievement Award
Jane Royal
2008 Lifetime Achievement Award
Jane Royal has served many years as a board member and officer of the NFBA. She has been instrumental in our youth program and it's success. Jane is and will always be appreciated for her countless hours working in the best interest of our association and contributing to it's growth and accomplishments. Jane we salute you and will always be indebted to you for your service to the NFBA.
NFBA EXPO 2008 Winners
Dave McCranie
Mike Long Guitar