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
Listening to:
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