Events

Here's another attendee report on their IBMA 2008 experience. It comes from Margaret Benson. "The IBMA conference was very helpful to me in accomplishing my professional goals for the week.  I was sent to the conference by a client, Beartrap Summer

Brance and I had a busy week at IBMA earlier this month, but were not able to stay for the Fan Fest which ran that weekend (10/3-4). Our impression of the World Of Bluegrass trade show was that attendance was

The Red Carpet interviews we shot just prior to the 2008 IBMA Awards Show - which we have been promising to post for over a week - will be up later this morning. The time required to edit and encode the

The IBMA has posted the text of the Keynote Address delivered by Berklee College of Music President Roger Brown at last week's World Of Bluegrass Convention on their web site. His speech addressed two main themes: that the period when

The Cabin Fever Pickin' Party has become a bluegrass institution, hosting a large indoor festival and massive jam each winter in Hampton, VA. The event started as a small, local event in Williamsburg, VA in 1995 and has grown to an

Steep Canyon Rangers will be doing two shows this month with legendary bluegrass pioneer Curly Seckler. Seckler was the mandolinist and tenor singer with Flatt & Scruggs during their hey day in the 1950s and early '60s, and later became a

Another busy IBMA has come and gone. We will have a few more World Of Bluegrass posts on Bluegrass Today before this week is out, including a number of videos. Brance is till putting the finishing touches on our Red Carpet

Here are some photos from last night's IBMA Awards Show and pre-show reception. All were taken by Tami Roth.                                                     

Each year when the IBMA Awards nominations are announced, there are a couple of glaring absences in the roll call. For 2008, neither Cherryholmes nor any members of Punch Brothers were nominated, and Punch received only a single nomination, for

Looking back on this year's award show, my first comment is to give a big nod to the producers, Cindy Baucom and Ned Luberecki. This was absolutely the best IBMA award show I've attended. Everything ran smoothly. The concepts were