Vince is a Two-Time National Champion on Old-Time Banjo having taken 1st at Uncle Dave Macon Days in Murfreesboro TN in 1987 and 1996.

The old time banjo catagory in the music competition at the festival was slated by Congress as the Nationals in 1987.
He also took first place in 2001 on Old time banjo at Glenville, the West Virginia State Folk Festival.

Uncle Dave Macon was the first star of the Grand Old Opry and was from around Murfreesboro Tennessee which is about 25 miles south of Nashville.
The festival in his name is an annual event and in 1987 the contest was held on the front porch of the court house which during the Civil War
was used as a hospital for the confederates and overflow patients were placed on the same porch.




Vince first heard old-time music in 1972 While on a summer hitchiking trip from N.Y. to West Virginia.
On a stop in DC the The Highwoods Stringband were performing at the Folklife festival and the experience changed his life.
The good-natured energy of the band and the drive of the music made a deep impression. Upon arriving in Morgantown he heard
more old-time and attended some festivals like Ivydale and Glenville and the seed was sewn.
Back in Rockland County NY banjo lessons were being offered in a local community craft school which turned out to be
in the old time Clawhammer style, and by 1975 he had moved to West Virginia to pursue it further.

Pic is Vini and Stu- 1975
WVU Lair Plaza




COMPETITION-Old-Time Banjo

1st Place- West Virginia State Folk Festival in Glenville 2001
1st Place- National Championships, Uncle Dave Macon Days 1996
1st Place- National Championships, Uncle Dave Macon Days 1987
2nd Place- National Championships, Uncle Dave Macon Days 1995
3rd Place- Glenville, WV State Folk Festival 1996
3rd Place- Glenville, WV State Folk Festival 1995
3rd Place- National Championships, Uncle Dave Macon Days 1992

Other Competition

1st Place- Clifftop, Non-Traditional Stringband with the Freewill Savages 1994
1st Place- Clifftop, Non Traditional Stringband, with Synca Therepy, 2002


Freewill Savages-Clifftop, 1994 1st Place- Non Traditional Stringband Contest
Vince Farsetta, Dave Grant, Al Tharp, Dirk Powell, James Leva