Hey there friends - I have a band comp entry available from a 2020 rollover and can’t make it up this year. Would love to help a band that got shut out initially! $75 gets you onto the stage at Elks Park in a few short months!
The competition in Elks Park is one of my favorite things at the festival. Watching these bands play their best songs and put it on the line is a treat.
Want to see how great the band competition is, look at past winners:
Past winners include:
1985 - Blitz Creek
1986 - Loose Ties (Runners-up Blue Plate Special)
1988 - Titan Valley Warheads
1989 - Powder Ridge
1990 - Dixie Chicks
1991 - Meighan Edmonson Mittelmeier Band
1992 - Sugarbeat
1993 - String Fever
1994 - Salt Licks
1995 - Magraw Gap
1996 - Cornbread Sally
1997 - Ryan Shupe & Rubberband
1998 - Floodplain Gang
1999 - Pagosa Hot Strings
2000 - Clear Blue
2001 - Bearfoot Bluegrass
2002 - South Austin Jug Band
2003 - Hit & Run Bluegrass
2004 - Burnett Family Bluegrass Band
2005 - The Badly Bent
2006 - Greensky Bluegrass
2007 - Spring Creek Bluegrass Band
2008 - Blue Canyon Boys
2009 - The Hillbenders
2010 - Nora Jane Struthers & the Bootleggers
2011 - Run Boy Run
2012 - BlueBilly Grit
2013 - Front Country
2014 - Trout Steak Revival[8]
2015 - The Lil’ Smokies
2016 - Fireball Mail[9]
2017 - Sugar and the Mint : sugarandthemint.com
2018 - Wood Belly
2019 - Bowregard[10]
From wikipedia