Join us for the Texas State Championship contests for flatpick guitar, bluegrass banjo, and mandolin, together with the Bluegrass Heritage Festival, on May 1-3 at the Wyndham Garden in Farmers Branch. The contests are free to watch!

Find out if you’re the best banjo, mandolin, or flatpick guitar player in Texas! First place prize money is $500 plus a confirmed, paid entry to the National Championships in Winfield and a ticket to the Walnut Valley Festival! Must be a Texas resident and qualify under contest rules to compete. All the details are on the website at https://bluegrassheritage.org/texas-state-championships/

The 2020 Texas State Mandolin, Guitar, and Banjo Championships have been made possible by the generous support of these amazing sponsors:

Acoustic Music Camp
Austin Friends of Traditional Music
Bay Area Bluegrass Association
Bluegrass Heritage Foundation
Bluegrass Music Rising
Calton Cases
Central Texas Bluegrass Association
Collings Guitars
Mary Conn, Attorney at Law
Ellis Mandolins
The City of Farmers Branch, Texas
Fuller’s Guitar Shop
Robert & Trista Hough
Paluxy River Bluegrass Association
Pearl Bluegrass 1st Sat Jam & Stage Show
Robertson Guitars
Tracy Dean Smith, Landscape Architect
Southwest Bluegrass Club
Texas Bluegrass Music LLC
Tomball Bluegrass Festival
Triple Creek RV Park
Wyndham Garden Dallas North Hotel