Events

We had posted back in August when Chris Thile and his merry band of super pickers announced a three day string of shows at Nashville's fabled Station Inn. They were, at the time of that posting, billed as The Tensions

OK... here is our final photo gallery from the 2007 IBMA Awards show on October 4 in Nashville. Special thanks to Tami Roth for getting us such superb photos. If you would like to see all of our coverage of the

As promised, we'll have a couple more photo galleries from last week's IBMA festivities in Nashville. Here is a batch of photos from the party held backstage at The Grand Ole Opry house just prior to Thursday's International Bluegrass Music

Jon Glik's fiddle playing can be heard on some of my favorite records. Anyone who knows me, knows I'm a huge Del McCoury fan. Don't Stop The Music may be my all time favorite McCoury album, and Glik's fiddle plays

During an IBMA week conversation with John Eberle of Americana Mastering, an excellent suggestion for a new IBMA Award category came up. John remarked that, given the degree to which bluegrass artists and fans appreciate the subtleties of acoustic instrument tonality,

We've heard from a number of readers who were unable to view the photo galleries we had posted from IBMA last week. It seems to have been restricted to users of Internet Explorer 7, though not all IE 7 users

It's time now for our annual recap of the IBMA Awards and a comparison to our unofficial poll. Here are the results. Award IBMA Winner Blog Poll Winner

Missy Raines wrote in this morning to offer some additional thanks she was unable to give during the award show last night due to time constraints. I've copied her comments below. Dear folks, I am so honored to have received the

Yesterday John and I had the chance to sit down with the guys from Steep Canyon Rangers and conduct a short interview. We video taped it and I've uploaded here. The guys spend some time discussing this past year and how

Here is another batch of Tami Roth's excellent photos from last night's IBMA Awards show, and the after party hosted by Del McCoury at The Gibson Showcase.