RUNNERS-UP: Ponty Bone, accordion (Joe Ely, Squeezetones); Chip Kinman, harmonica (Rank & File); Patrick Keel, everything (the Pool); Paul Orta, harp (Kingpins); John Ely, steel guitar (Kerry Pryor Band); Derek O’Brien; Jim Fritzler, squeaky frog (Stick Figures); Patricia McMillan, sawhorse (Chinanine); Kimberly Nelson, steel drums (Chinanine); Paul Glasse, mandolin; Dickie Erwin, banjo (Erwin O. Prather); Ingrid Karklins, kokle (Grimalkin); Lindsay Haisley, autoharp; Brian Beattie, comb (Free Association of Holiday Musicians); Kevin Overkill, video switcher

This article appears in March 4 • 1983.

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