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Lawrence plays host to music championships
By J.R. Clairborne Kansan staff writer
Anyone who wanted a weekend getaway but just couldn't leave town only had to go to downtown Lawrence, where Appalachian and bluegrass music filled the air at the 12th Annual Kansas State Fiddling and Championships.
The event began Friday with a folk music concert at Liberty Hall, featuring groups from Ames, Iowa; Kansas City, Mo.; and Wichita.
Saturday's events included instrument and dance workshops, a children's concert and a community barn dance in the Kansas Union.
The actual seven-contest competition commenced yesterday afternoon at South Park, turning the entire park into a local version of the Grand Ole Opry.
Rundle said the event was the result of a large volunteer effort by those involved with the KSF&PC, a Lawrence organization that carries the same name as the contest. Organizers estimated about 3,000 people attended yesterday's contest.
"This is one of the biggest crowds I've seen yet," said Mike Rundle, executive director of the contest and a faculty member in the public administration department. "I'm really pleased. We've had no disasters and a really fine day."
Rundle said he expected an even bigger event for 1993, especially if the group achieves its goal of incorporation. Through incorporation, the group would be able to better organize itself and possibly obtain grants for the competition. But Rundle doesn't expect the competition itself to include many changes.
"It seems to be successful so I don't it we'll change much," he said.
Among those competing in the fiddling contest of the championships was Tricia Spencer, Lecompton senior, an 18-year veteran of the fiddle and old-time music.
Spencer, who said she normally finished among the top three fiddlers in contests she had entered, did not place in yesterday's championships. But she refused to let the outcome of her first contest this year dampen her spirits.
"Placing is not the most important thing," she said. "I had a lot of compliments from other people."
Spencer is preparing for the regional fiddling contest next month in South Dakota, where she expects to be in competition with about 200
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Among Spencer's fiddling goals are to learn to read music, since she learns everything by ear now, and to be invited to play in an invitational competition, where only the top fiddlers are invited to compete.
In the meantime, Spencer said she wanted to keep playing with her grandfather, who also is her fiddle teacher, and enjoying her music.
"I'll play it' I'll die or my fingers get broke," she laughed. "My whole family plays, and so will I."
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