Pt 1 Youth & Lifetime Golden Fiddle Awards 2026 in Photo & Music

Here is the first of our 2026 Thank you series presenting our Youth & (at end of Vid) Lifetime Achievement Awards plus celebrating the performers and organisers of the Golden Fiddle Awards through our photographers Marilla Homes (side stage) Peter Torning (immediate front) Glenn Jackson (from far out front) plus those who took the many previous years captures presented on the back screen - Lou Farina for example. The music in this Video includes from the first Fiddlers Festival "Live" CD "The Dion Reel into Mouth of the Tobique" which included Marcus Holden, George Washingmachine, Caroline Trengove, Mark Oats, Ray Schloeffel (RIP) on Fiddles and our MD Andrew Clermont on Bass! Lifetime Awarded Liz Frencham also performed with Fiddlers Festival in the mid years including to Pakistan with Clermont & Holden! Followed by "The Mower" (written by Canberra muso Tony Hunter who had sadly just passed away in the week earlier) was in fact performed on the day to acknowledge him, as well as Sydney Mandolinist, Nigel Lever, who also passed recently ! However as we don't have the sound recording from the day so it is here borrowed from the Wirrina Bluegrass & Roots Music Festival SA in 2025 where is was performed by our now Youth awarded Lucy Kammermann, Hugh Gordon & Rob Wallace on Fiddles with Andrew Clermont on Mandolin (he also wrote the third section of the tune) plus Josh Bennett on Guitar & Janet Gordon on Piano. It then segwayed into Big John McNeil adding Ingrid Wangel on bonus Fiddle!