Joanna Johnson Wins National Scottish Fiddling Championship

CHILI, Wisconsin.
   Once a year, the National Scottish Fiddling Championship, organized by Scottish Fiddling Revival Ltd. Scottish F.I.R.E., takes place at a sponsoring Highland Games. The past several years has seen the championship held in Edinboro, PA sponsored by the Edinboro University of Pennsylvania.

   This year, on Saturday September 9, there was a gathering of fiddlers from all over the USA, from the state of Washington all the way to Florida. The group consisted of eight competitors who qualified for nationals at various regional competitions throughout the country or had placed first or second in the National competition within the past five years. 

   After hours of spectacular fiddling by each contestant, the winner of this year’s National Open Fiddle Championship Founder’s Cup was violinist and fiddler, Joanna Johnson from the small town of Chili, Wisconsin. She performed her own arrangement of traditional Scottish tunes and won first place on top of Best Air for her slow tune, Best Strathspey (the signature type of tune in Scottish Fiddling), and overall Best Set. 

   She is honored to represent Wisconsin as the new 2017 National Scottish Fiddling Champion. 

   Joanna began playing the violin at age seven and almost immediately dived into Scottish Fiddling as well, making the long trek with her family down to North Carolina, attending the Jin ...

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