Our Achievements

The Hillbilly Gypsies are proud to have received plenty of recognition and awards over the years.
Trae and Robbie performing at a single mic

Awards and Recognition

The Hillbilly Gypsies are proud of the awards and recognition received over the years.

Voted West Virginia’s best band by West Virginia Living Magazine
2014 & 2016.

Voted the best band in Morgantown, WV by Morgantown Magazine
2012.

Listed as “The most innovative musicians redifining mountain music in West Virginia today,” by the West Virginia Division of Tourism.

Winners of the DelFest Band Competition
2009

Featured on several nationally syndicated TV and radio shows including Mountain Stage, Song of The Mountains, Woodsongs, Red Barn Radio and the Wheeling Jamboree.

Featured regularly at the Historic Carter Family Fold in Hiltons, VA and mentioned in the New York Times for lively appearances there.

Featured on BBC television in 2011.

The Gypsies have played many major bluegrass festival events around the country including the Gettysburg Bluegrass Festival, Poppy Mountain Bluegrass Festival, Delfest, Summersville Music in the Mountains Festival, The Outer Banks Bluegrass Festival, Mohican Bluegrass Festival, Pickin’ In Parsons Bluegrass Festival, Appalachian Uprising, Rockahock Buegrass Festival, OATS Bluegrass Festival, NEPA Bluegrass Festival, Remington Ryde Bluegrass Festival, Homegrown Bluegrass Festival at Snowshoe Mountain Resort, Bluegrass in the Hills, Mandolin Farm Bluegrass Festival, Smoked Counry Jam Bluerass Festival, Hickory Fest and many many more!

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