In June 1986 the Original Michigan Fiddlers Association hosted a jamboree in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan and Jack Stebe recorded it and later sent a cassette tape of the recording to Jim Boynton. This cassette was shared with me by Jim Boynton and I digitized the recordings. The below recordings are not the entirety of the cassette but most of them. These are old non-professional recordings and the sound quality leaves much to be desired yet the vibrancy of the music and comradery comes across clearly.

This jamboree drew fiddlers from around the state of Michigan and from Ontario and displays that variety of tunes and styles common at the time. Fiddlers like Rene Cote (Soo, Canada), Stewart Carmichael (Mecosta Co., Michigan), and Lee Sloan (a transplant from Milan, Tennessee to the Detroit factory scene) are examples of this diversity. Still, that Michigan sound is present in abundance, with lots of waltzes, some jigs, polkas, songs, reels, etc.  

 This was the same year that the OMFA released their first book which can be found here and includes a lot of biographies of the players: http://www.michiganfiddle.com/original-michigan-fiddlers-association-1986-book/

The names of the fiddlers are evidence of just how special this gathering was.

— Trae McMaken