2022 Bitter Jester Winners & MVPs
Pictured with our winners are Highland Park City Councilman Andrés Tapia (blue shirt) and First Bank of Highland Park President Eric Ephraim (black shirt). The City of HP is a major supporter of the Music Festival; First Bank of Highland Park is our Grand Finale Prize Money Title Sponsor.
2022 Grand Champions
Summer Drive
2022 Runners-Up
Summer League
2022 Honorable Mention
Scorched Waves
2022 MVP Awards
This was the second year that the Bitter Jester Foundation for the Arts awarded MVP Players with beautiful custom made brass medallions designed by Christy Knapp & Nic DeGrazia and produced by Bennett Awards.
2022 MVP Vocalist
Fletcher Sapp from Summer League
2022 MVP Guitar Player
Alex Johnson from Summer Drive
2022 MVP Bass Player
Adam Caruso from Keep the Eleven
2022 MVP Drummer
Ricky Churnovic from Exit 122
Ricky also won a loaded prize bag courtesy of Guitar Center, Highland Park.
2022 MVP Keys Player
Jack Koshkin from Fightin’ Bob
Special for 2022…
We were so grateful to receive an incredible donation from Kurt Wilson Guitars: a custom built beast of an instrument with very few miles under the hood.
Kurt donated a custom built guitar that had only ever had one owner: Kurt Wilson himself.
We had every guitar player pick up and play the instrument back stage and talk about what they thought of it. What they did not know was that it was part of the process to determine who would win the gift.
The prize was awarded to Alex Johnson, who also landed up MVP Guitar.
People photography by Elan Gurevich.