1st Place

Trophy
$3,100 Cash by Walnut Valley Festival
Guitar of Choice from list below
Invited to play in the 2025 Champion Showcase Concert
Fishman Loudbox Artist Amplifier
Solid Ground Stands Custom Guitar Stand
Appear on The Ozark Music Shoppe Show , Friday at Noon
Appear on Stage I Friday at 5pm

2nd Place

3rd Place

Finalists

Those who compete in the Final Round, but do not win 1st, 2nd, or 3rd place, will receive one Paige Capo and a beautiful Wall Plaque commemorating their Top 5 placement in the competition.

Huss & Dalton Guitar Company

FS Finger Style Guitar

This Huss & Dalton FS Guitar is aimed directly at the modern finger-style player. This guitar has a Carpathian spruce top, figured East Indian rosewood back and sides, and the custom Kansas Windmill inlay in Abalone on the peghead, telling everyone you are an international winner.

50th Anniversary Builder's Edition 814ce LTD Guitar

There’s a reason why the 814ce is Taylor’s chosen guitar to represent it’s 50th Anniversary. This limited edition guitar includes Indian rosewood body for rich lows and sparkling highs and a sinker redwood top for warmth, power and touch sensitivity. It includes the patented V-Class bracing which improves volume, sustain and harmony and an ES2 electronics and a hardshell case. Production of this beauty is limited to 1,974 worldwide, representing the year Taylor started producing their guitars.

Bourgeois Touchstone Signature Guitar

CRAFTED WITH PRECISION
Showcasing some of the finest materials and painstaking attention to detail for which Bourgeois Guitars in known, the new Touchstone Signature features select Madagascar rosewood back and sides and a torrefied, old growth Alaskan Sitka spruce soundboard. The body, fretboard, and headstock are all bound in Ziricote, a figured wood which pairs with Dana BOurgeois’ distinctive tri-color herringbone top border and delicate pearl inlays to create an air of understated elegance.