Banjo Contests

2009 New England Banjo Champion Michelle Canning
with her Sweetgrass Megatone 200 Bluegrass banjo
won at Ossipee Valley Bluegrass Festival

Each year two of our Megatone Bluegrass Banjos are given away as prizes for banjo contests. If you are interested in competing for an Ome, go to these web sites:

July
The New England Banjo Championship, Ossippee Valley Bluegrass Festival

September
The National Bluegrass Banjo Championship, Walnut Valley Festival

Bluegrass/Old-time Festivals

John Paul Jones says howdy to Tanya at the Ome booth, MerleFest 2007

Stop by and visit us! Ome Banjos travels to different regions of the United States to exhibit banjos and catch up with friends at the following festivals:

February
Mid-Winter Bluegrass Festival, Denver, CO

April
MerleFest, Wilkesboro, NC

August
Appalachian String Band Music Festival (Clifftop), Camp Washington-Carver, WV

September
Walnut Valley Festival, Winfield, KS

October
International Bluegrass Music Association, Nashville, TN

Jazz Festivals 2007

Our rep Dr. Gil O'Gawa, a tenor banjo player, helps us show our Jazz banjos at these conventions. Come visit his display and listen to some Jazz banjo. You are in for a treat!

2007

• Feb. 9-11 '07: Bayside Banjo Aggregation's St. Valentine's Day Massacre & Banjo Fest @ Allenberry Resort, Boiling Springs, PA. (www.jazzbanjo.com)
• Mar. 22-24 '07: Stone Street Strummers Spring Fling @ Holiday Inn, Mansfield, MA
• Apr. 25-28 '07: Great Lakes International Banjo Convention @ Doubletree Hotel, Dearborn, MI
• May 17-19: Banjo Rendez-Vous, New Orleans, LA
• May 24-27, '07: Guthrie Jazz Banjo Festival, Guthrie, OK
• Aug. 7-12, '07: FIGA Annual Convention, Buffalo, NY
• Aug. 30-Sept. 1, '07: Banjo Rally International @ Inn of the Ozarks, Eureka Springs, AR
• Sept. 14-16, '07: Midwest Banjo Jamboree @ LaCrosse, WI
• Nov. 1-3: Birmingham Bash: Oxmoor Inn, Birmingham, AL