The National Oldtime Fiddlers’ Contest and Festival
The National Oldtime
Fiddlers’ Contest
& Festival
June 17th – 22nd, 2025 • Weiser, ID
Come On Down!
Compete
Register as a contestant or accompanist.
Register as Vendor
Join the fun in the park!
Volunteer
Help make the event shine!
Join the Parade
Get your parade entry form.
Mission Statement
The Corporation is organized for the charitable and educational purposes of fostering and promoting oldtime and traditional fiddling and related traditional arts, including, but not limited to, conducting research, providing instruction, maintaining archives and collections on oldtime and traditional fiddling and related traditional arts, and conducting and sponsoring public shows, exhibitions and competitions of such art.
Get the Details
How to Watch
You may watch this year’s event in-person at Weiser High School, on YouTube, and from the national Oldtime Fiddlers Contest and Festival’s Facebook page.
In addition to watching in-person, will be providing a high-quality live stream of our contest. You will be able to enjoy the contest in-person, or from the safety and comfort of your home. Please donate during the show to help us with our expenses.
VIP Tickets
Get VIP day and night tickets by reservation!
- Your name will be placed on the seat reserved for you for the entire contest, Monday afternoon through Saturday evening.
- Your name will be printed on a VIP badge that gives admission to contest Tuesday morning through Saturday evening.
- No waiting in line to be seated!
- Cost $175 per chair (a portion of the ticket price may be tax deductible)
- Your VIP badge and lanyard will be available for pickup Monday June 17th, at the High School in the contest office.
Call (208) 414-0255 to reserve VIP seating.
Family & Friends Club
Our tradition of cheering for your friends and family members has been very popular and we plan to continue this!
Up to 10 “Fan Club” members will be allowed to enter behind the fiddler and sit side-stage. “Fan Club” members will follow the fiddler off stage as soon as that fiddler has finished their round.
Contest Results
Download PDFs of the final results of every division at the National Oldtime Fiddlers’ Contest (2018 to current year).
Campgrounds
Stay where the fiddlers stay! Fiddletown, Slocum Hall and Stickerville Campgrounds all open Thursday June 12th.
Additional lodging options are available in Weiser and the surrounding towns.
About the Contest
Always the third full week of June!
Fiddling came to Weiser in 1863 when the Logans established a way station here and covered wagon emigrants stopped for rest and recreation.
The present National Oldtime Fiddlers’ Contest was inaugurated in 1963 in conjunction with Idaho’s Territorial Centennial observances. Through all these years of fiddling in Weiser, the town of 5,200 people pulls hundreds of volunteers together each year in support of their nationally recognized event.
This week of intense competition and endless jamming brings together young and old for the purpose of perpetuating fiddling around the world.
