Awards National Bluegrass Banjo Championship       Grant’s Bluegrass Festival Hugo Oklahoma 1971     National Bluegrass Banjo Championship       Grant’s Bluegrass Festival Hugo Oklahoma 1972     National Bluegrass Banjo Championship       Grant’s Bluegrass Festival Hugo Oklahoma 1973 World Bluegrass Banjo Championship        Lakeland Park, Memphis, Tennessee 1974 Most Promising Banjo Player Award    Awarded by The Society for the Preservation of Bluegrass   Music of America