52nd Annual Walnut Valley Festival – Winfield, Kansas
Date: September 21,
2024
Time: 1:47 p.m.
Contest Name: 2024 National
Guitar Flat Pick Championship
Champion: Eric Hardin
City/State/Zip:
Warrensville, NC
Prize
Instrument Selected: D-MA Custom Guitar, provided by PK Thompson Guitars
(Sisters, OR)
2nd Place:
Hayes Griffin
City/State/Zip: Columbus, OH
Prize Instrument Selected:
Winfield Model Mahogany Adirondack Guitar, provided Collings Guitar (Austin,
TX)
3rd Place: Luke
Lovejoy
City/State/Zip: Spencer, IN
Prize Instrument Selected: D-28
Modern Deluxe Guitar, provided by C.F. Martin & Company, Inc. (Nazareth,
PA)
Runners up: Jakob Thomas, South
Charleston, WV and Steve Lewis, Jefferson, NC
30 contestants from 16 states and
2 countries (Canada and USA).
Pictured L-R: Hayes Griffin,
Columbus, OH (2nd Place), Eric Hardin, Warrensville, NC (1st Place), and
Luke Lovejoy, Spencer, IN (3rd Place)
