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Winfield is a quiet south Kansas town fifty-one weeks a year — and then the Walnut Valley Festival arrives each September and transforms the Cowley County fairgrounds into the acoustic music capital of America. Running since 1972, the festival hosts national flatpicking guitar championships whose winners' names carry real weight in bluegrass circles, plus days of stage performances from the genre's best. The real magic happens in the campgrounds, where round-the-clock jam sessions under the cottonwoods have built friendships spanning generations. Pickers line up days early for prime camping spots in a tradition lovingly known as Land Rush.
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