Our BPMM Students Have Won Many
 AWARDS and FIDDLE CONTESTS

  • Many have won or placed highly at national and state fiddle contests.
    One student by the age of 12 had a college fund started from her CONTEST WINNINGS, had managed to win OPEN CONTESTS competing against adults and even the Missouri State Fiddling Champion. She also won the Kansas State Banjo Competition.


  • Others have recieved the highest ratings in both public school band contests(where violin was not offered in the band program)and home school band contests for violin as individual contestants.
  • Many of our students have gone on to play in bluegrass and country music bands, and have worked at Branson or other Music Shows and Theatres.
  • The program builds self esteem and even prepares students by developing poise and confidence for accomplishments in all forms of public relations activities. Several students became Seymour Apple Festival Princess runner ups and winners of the Miss Congeniality award competing against students much older. Others have won or placed in several other padgent type contests, some in conjunction with music festivals.
  • Others have achieved scholarships, and awards for sportsmanship and citizenship in school. Parents say that they have felt their students were greatly helped by their experiences, personal accomplishments, and performances as participants in the BPMM band program.
  • Not only do the students learn to become accomplished musicians, but are also taught to be reliable, honor commitments, to set and work to achieve personal goals, and to think positively when confronted with a task.
  • The places the student band has been asked to perform are also accomplishments in themselves. They have played at the Silver Dollar City American Music Festivals, the Silver Dollar City Christmas, as a lead in band at the Grand Palace and the Branson Belle, have played a one hour live radio show, have played during the credits of Channel 3 TV News, and the band has been interviewed by Channel 10 News on several occassions. They have also played at the Ozark Empire Fair, and numerous bluegrass and other music festivals all over southern Missouri, in Arkansas and in Oklahoma. (The instructor has also played fiddle apart from the student band on the TV News and in state tourism and bluegrass festival advertisements in Lexington, KY, Little Rock, Arkansas, and in Oklahoma.) Blackwell also performs with her BPMM student band at their various venues.


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