Fiddling prodigies team up to win
In 2009, Alina Geslison and Grace Dayton can say they're the best pair of fiddlers in the nation.
That's because Alina, a BYU-bound 17-year-old from the Provo Utah Bonneville Stake, and Grace, a Mia Maid in the Pleasant Grove Utah East Stake, won the 2009 National Old-time Twin Fiddling contest last month in Weiser, Idaho.
The competition -- open to fiddlers of all ages -- required each entering pair to play two songs. For Alina and Grace, the selections were "Josephine's Waltz" and "Nicaraguan."
Alina's and Grace's victory surprised even them.
Read the full story via MormonTimes.com.
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Alina Geslison, (left) 17, of Provo and Grace Dayton, 15, of Pleasant Grove received the judges 1st place choice at the National Twin Fiddling Championship in Weiser, Idaho. Geslison and Dayton have been playing for 12 years. Brendan Sullivan, Deseret News
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