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Here's a gallery of Frank Baker's images from last weekend's Wide Open Bluegrass festivities, both IBMA's ticketed festival in Raleigh's Red Hat Amphitheater and the city's free, downtown, streetfest.
20 Questions with Katy Daley is a new, ongoing feature here at Bluegrass Today. The column may be new, but you all know the contributor, Katy Daley, a familiar voice from the Katy Daley Show each weekday morning at WAMU’s Bluegrass Country. As the situation allows, Katy will conduct interviews with bluegrass artists and personalities, bringing her wide knowledge of [...]
Our coverage of the 2016 World of Bluegrass will continue over the next several days. Thursday had lots of music to see, and workshops to take, but also offered opportunities for participants to learn more about the IBMA and offer their input to the organization. There was a Town Hall Meeting in which the IBMA board [...]
When Mountain Faith was named the IBMA's Emerging Artist of the Year for 2016 last Thursday night, we were among the many folks nodding and thinking, "it's about time the organization recognized these groundbreaking young artists." As is so often the case, accolades like this are a bit late in arriving, with the band having now [...]
When it comes to resophonic guitars, Paul Beard’s instruments are the gold standard for some of the best in the business, from the late Mike Auldridge to IBMA’s reigning Dobro Player of the Year, Jerry Douglas. But at $4,000 and up, his guitars were priced out of reach of many players. He worked on a [...]