June 26, 2020
By: Dwayne Page
A Nashville girl won the top Jamboree award as the best fiddler in the National Championship for Country Musician Beginners during the 47th annual Smithville Fiddlers Jamboree and Crafts Festival in July, 2018.
Uma Peters won the coveted James G. “Bobo” Driver Memorial Award, named for the man who started the children’s competition during the 1980’s as part of the annual Fiddler’s Jamboree and Crafts Festival. Members of Mr. Driver’s family presented the award to Peters. She also won first place in the beginners five string banjo contest that year.
The video shown below is the latest in a series of Fiddlers’ Jamboree “special moments” from past festivals to be presented by WJLE through the 4th of July weekend.