“Sister Sadie” Receives Jamboree’s “Blue Blaze Award”

July 8, 2024
By: Dwayne Page

Keeping the embers glowing!

Continuing a tradition started several years ago honoring an individual performer or group each year for helping keep the embers of bluegrass music glowing for future generations, the Smithville Fiddlers Jamboree Saturday evening presented the 2024 “Blue Blaze Award” to Sister Sadie right after this talented and popular all-female band put on an exciting mini concert which left the crowd wanting more.

Originally formed as a pickup band in December of 2012, Sister Sadie has reached heights beyond any of their dreams. In 2019, they won their first IBMA award as a band, Vocal Group of the Year. They debuted on the Grand Ole Opry. Their album “Sister Sadie II” was nominated for a GRAMMY. And it’s only picked up steam since then. 2020 brought with it another wave of IBMA Awards including Fiddle Player, Vocal Group & Entertainer of the Year. In 2021, The same year, the band took home a third consecutive IBMA Vocal Group of the Year award, and new member Jaelee Roberts was awarded the IBMA Momentum Vocalist of the Year award.

Now, entering their second decade as a band, the spark that they felt all those years ago burns brighter than ever before.

Sister Sadie is comprised of original members Deanie Richardson (fiddle), Gena Britt (banjo & vocals) and newcomers Jaelee Roberts (guitar & vocals), Dani Flowers (guitar & vocals), and Maddie Dalton (acoustic bass & vocals).

This dynamic bluegrass supergroup joins a long list of Smithville Fiddlers Jamboree “Blue Blaze” Award winners which reads like a who’s who with names like Dailey & Vincent, Sierra Hull, Danny Roberts of the Grascals, the Tennessee Mafia Jug Band, Ronnie Reno, and Michael Cleveland among others.

Sister Sadie band member Deanie Richardson competed at the Fiddler’s Jamboree as a child and was one of the first winners in the Jamboree’s National Championship for Country Musician Beginners in the 1980s.

Jamboree Photo Gallery

July 8, 2024
By: Dwayne Page

The Grand Champion Fiddle Off brought to a close the 53rd annual Smithville Fiddlers Jamboree and Crafts Festival Saturday night just before 11:00 p.m.

View the fiddle off (here) between Junior Fiddler Tylar Andal of Nashville and Senior Fiddler Heather Brown Curry of Springfield. Andal won the fiddle off and received the Berry C. Williams Memorial Award for being the Grand Champion fiddler of the festival.

The videos below feature each Andal and Curry performing one of three songs in the fiddle off to determine the winner

July 8, 2024
By: Dwayne Page

A Brentwood teen repeated as the overall winner of the Fiddler 5K and One Mile Fun Run Saturday.

(Click link below for all Fiddler 5K and One Mile Fun Run race results)

https://runsignup.com/Race/Results/143231#resultSetId-470768;perpage:100

For the 26th annual Fiddler 5K, 17-year-old Callahan Fielder ran the course in 16:43. His time last year was 16:16 seconds.

Meanwhile, the overall female winner was 13-year-old Camryn Maynor of Baxter with a time of 21:14. She came in 12th overall.

The race featured 276 runners.

Winners in other categories were:

TOP MALE MASTERS (Age 40 and older): 62-year-old James Angel of Smithville at 19:46

TOP FEMALE MASTERS (Age 40 and older): 42-year-old Rachel Mahan at 24: 36

One-Mile Fun Run (age 12 and younger) winners:

TOP MALE: 12-year-old A. Herndon of Kingsport at 7:43

TOP FEMALE: 11-year-old C. Farmer of Dowelltown at 8:14

Funds raised will support Habitat for Humanity of DeKalb County.

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