The International Bluegrass Music Association is adding a new track to the presentations at their annual World of Bluegrass convention this September in Raleigh, NC. Four sessions have been scheduled which, when attended by legal professionals, will accrue four hours of
Trey Hensley & Rob Ickes have posted this video from their performance last Friday at The Down Home in Johnson City, TN. It finds them laying down a scorching version of Jimmy Martin's Freeborn Man, which has served as a flatpicking
The recently re-constituted European Bluegrass Music Association (EBMA) board, with Irish banjo player living in Belgium Eugene O’Brien as the chairperson, has issued a mission statement indicating a new direction for organization. The EBMA came into being in February 2001 following
Mountain Home Records has dropped a sneak peek video to introduce bluegrass fans to some of the music on their upcoming release, Runaway Train, from Flatt Lonesome. It finds the talented young group working in the studio, laying down the grass, and
Also announced yesterday were the Dove Award nominees for 2015, presented each year by the Gospel Music Association in Nashville, TN. They recognize excellence in all the various forms of contemporary Gospel music, including rock, pop, traditional, southern, inspirational, worship,
At a press conference aired this morning on SiriusXM's Bluegrass Junction, the International Bluegrass Music Association announced the final nominees for their 2015 International Bluegrass Music Awards, along with this year's Hall Of Fame Inductees and Distinguished Achievement Award recipients. The
Donna Ulisse has come up with a clever way to promote her new single, It Could Have Been The Mandolin. It will be included on her next album, Hard Cry Moon. She's created a spoof news video, reporting on the mysterious
The International Bluegrass Music Association has announced the hiring of Joe Spann as their new Member Services Manager. Joe is a recognized expert on prewar flathead banjos, is the author of Spann's Guide To Gibson Banjos 1902-1941, and had been working
What do you call four old guys, playing old music on old instruments? In Nashville they're called The Vintage Mandolin Quartet and, as the name suggests, they perform on rare and valuable mandolin family instruments from the early parts of the
The International Bluegrass Music Association has announced the selections for their 2015 IBMA Film Festival, held in conjunction with their annual World of Bluegrass convention. Two films have been chosen as highlights to be presented during the mid-week business conference, and
