52nd Annual Walnut Valley Festival – Winfield, Kansas
Date: September 19,
2024
Time: 9:20 p.m.
Contest Name: 2024
International Finger Style Guitar Championship
Champion: Stephen Bennett
City/State/Zip: New
Cornwall, CT
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Prize
Instrument Selected: Touchstone Series Dreadnought Guitar, provided by
Bourgeois Guitars
2nd Place:
Mikey Bilello
City/State/Zip: Bend, OR
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Prize Instrument Selected:
50th Anniversary 814-ce Builder’s Edition Guitar provided by Taylor
Guitars
3rd Place: Hiroya Tsukamoto
City/State/Zip: Woodside, NY
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Prize Instrument Selected: FS Winfield Custom Guitar, provided by Huss &
Dalton Guitars (Stauton, VA)
Runners up: Bingfan “Jason” Ji,
Willetton, Western Australia, Australia and Brandon Green, Beckley, WV
35 contestants from 21 states and
5 countries (Australia, China, Republic of Korea, United Kingdom and USA).
Held annually over the 3rd weekend
in September, the Walnut Valley Festival is the home of the following
championships: International Autoharp, International Fingerstyle Guitar,
National Mountain Dulcimer, National Flat Pick Guitar, National Hammered Dulcimer,
and National Bluegrass Banjo. Other contests held at the Walnut Valley Festival
are the National Mandolin Championship and the Walnut Valley Old Time Fiddle
Championship.
International Finger Style Guitar Championship
1st Place: $3,100 cash prize by
WVA, trophy plus choice of three custom guitars listed below
2nd Place: Trophy plus choice of two remaining guitars
3rd Place: Trophy plus remaining guitar
Bourgeois Finger Style Custom
Guitar – Bourgeois Guitars, Inc. 2
Cedar Street, Lewiston, ME 04240 (207) 786-0385
bourgeoisguitars.com
Huss & Dalton Winfield
Competition Model FS Guitar
hussanddalton.com
Taylor 812ce Grand Concert – Taylor Guitars, Inc. 1980 Gillespie Way, El Cajon, CA
92020 (619) 258-1207 taylorguitars.com
