Past Band Competitions
2025 Winner
Queen City Cut Ups
Queen City Cut Ups
2025 Fan Favorite
Ironwood Drive
Other competitors: Coal-Fired Ramblers and Stillwater
2024 Winner and Fan Favorite
Bloodroot Gap
Other Bands: The Tenderbellies, J.M. Clifford, and Seselia
2023 Winner
Cole Quest and the City Pickers
Other Bands: Hosmer Mountain Boys, Mama Corn and Wood Flower
2023 Fan Favorite
Hosmer Mountain Boys
Other Bands: Wood Flower and Mama Corn
2022 Winner and Fan Favorite
Serene Green
Other Bands: Hollow Turtle, Stoneface Mountain, and Seldom Said No
2021 WINNER
The Bad Oats
Other Bands:
The Green Sisters – MA On The Trail – CT West King String Band – Nashville TN
2019 WINNER
The Plate Scrapers
2019 FAN FAVORITE
Grain Thief
Other Bands
2018 WINNER & FAN FAVORITE
Pretty Saro
Other Bands
Collinsville String Band – CT. Blackjack Crossing– Keene NH. River Bones Band– Philadelphia PA.
2017 WINNER & FAN FAVORITE
Beg, Steal or Borrow
Other Bands
Mama’s Marmalade Amherst MA. High String Reunion Band- Boston MA. The Kory Brodsky Band- Newtown CT.
2016 WINNER
Mile Twelve
Competition Video by Telefunken
2016 Fan Favorite
Five in the Chamber
Competition Video by Telefunken
Other Bands
Damn Tall Buildings– Boston MA. Man About A Horse – PA
2015 Winner
Colebrook Road, Camp Hill, PA
Competition Video by Telefunken
2015 Fan Favorite
Michele Canning and Rough Edges, Andover, MA
Competition Video by Telefunken
Other bands
Four Bridges, Plymouth MA & Possumhaw, Burlington VT
2014 Winner
Tumbling Bones
2014 Fan Favorite
The Zolla Boys
2013-No Festival Held
2012 Competition
Winner: Three Tall Pines, Boston, MA
Fan favorite: Parsonsfield (Poor Old Shine), Storrs, CT
Other bands who competed in 2012:
Hub Hollow, Peapack, New Jersey
The Jersey Corn Pickers, Philadelphia, PA
2011 Competition
Winner: Travers Chandler and Avery County, Nashville, TN
Fan favorite: Jim Gaudet and The Railroad Boys, Albany, NY
Other bands who competed in 2011:
The Grass Pistols, Russia
Grace Adele & The Grand Band, Nashville, TN
Reunion Hill Band, New Hampshire
2010 Competition
Winner: Katie Wilson and the Two Time String Band, Connecticut
Fan favorite: Chasing Blue, Boston, MA
Other bands who competed in 2010:
Crunchy Western Boys, New Hampshire
Nitpickers, Maine
Chasing Blue, Boston, MA
The Crossfire Bluegrass Band , Rhode Island
2009 Competition
Winner: The Packway Handle Band, (Athens, GA)
Fan favorite:Hoe, (CT)
Other bands who competed in 2009:
Broken Blossoms (Boston)
Hoe (CT)
The Liberty Bluegrass Band (Wisconsin)
Mason Porter (PA)
2008 Competition
Winners: Gold Heart, Virginia
2008 Fan Favorite Winner: 49 Fingers, CT
Other bands who competed in 2008:
The Dewayn Brothers, KS
Adirondack TrueGrass, NY
Hillbilly Water, NJ
2007 Competition
Winner: Joy Kills Sorrow, Boston, MA
Fan Favorite: Blue Trail, CT
Other bands who competed in 2007:
Blue Detour, NY
Jaded Mandolin, MA
Long Ryde, PA
Redstone Ridge, CT
Tripping Lily, MA
