First Annual Renfro Valley Old Time Fiddlers Convention

First Annual Renfro Valley Old Time Fiddler's Convention, June 11-13, 1971. (There were also Guitar and Band competitions.) Sunday morning of the third day, June 13th, included a show by Roy Acuff and the Smokey Mountain Boys. During the show, Roy Acuff talks with John Lair and Glen Pennington about country music and Renfro Valley history.

CONTESTANTS: Bob Baker, Jesse Baker, Ray Brown, Wally Bryson, Charlie Collins, Charles A. Corns, Cumberland Mountain Boys, Sam Davis, Jack Deck, Johnny Dodd, Harold Donnelson, Bob Douglas, Charles Durham, Ronnie Eldridge, Walter Ford, Howdy Forester, Ross Foster, J.P. Fraley, Annadeene Fraley, Grant County String Ticklers, Dean Huddleston, T.A. Hudson, Glen Isom, Lewis Lamb, Slim Lay, Gene Leonard, Jack Lewis, Fred Lyons, Fletcher Malone, Ed McCracken, Bud Meredith, Bill Mitchell, Clyde Moon, Noboru Morishige, Frazier Moss, James Parker, Vester Parker, Peanut Payne, Kentucky Partners J.T. Perkins, Wilse Reynolds.

Smoky Mountain Boys: Beecher 'Bashful Brother Oswald' Kirby, Onie Wheeler, Charlie Collins, A.J. Nelson, Joe Phillips, Joe Greene, Joe Greene, Jr.