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The European Bluegrass Music Association (EBMA) Board is to recommend to the membership that EBMA should be dissolved. In a special notice issued on Sunday, March 5, 2023, the organization’s statement went on to say ..   This decision has come after

After being dormant for a while, the European Bluegrass Music Association (EBMA) has announced a new start, restructured its approach to bluegrass music in Europe, and consolidated its Board membership with the addition of two new members in February this

Christopher Howard-Williams (left) with Guy Flammier and Didier Philippe In September 2018 the IBMA recognized the significant contributions that Christopher Howard-Williams has brought to international bluegrass music with the presentation of their Distinguished Achievement Award.   Howard-Williams has been active in bluegrass

As has already been anticipated the European Bluegrass Music Association (EBMA) is making changes to improve it services and modernize the way that it operates. Among the changes are new, reduced, membership fees and benefits to make it more affordable across

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

The European Bluegrass Music Association has selected several new members for their Board of Directors. At their annual meeting at the Munich Bluegrass Festival earlier this month, four current members left the Board: Angelika Torrie, Rienk Janssen, Petr Brandejs and Christopher Howard-Williams. Their

Thanks to Stu Vincent, a newly-assigned member of the Board of Directors for the European Bluegrass Music Association, for sending along these photos from the presentation of awards at last weekend's European Bluegrass Gathering during the Munich Bluegrass Festival in

The European Bluegrass Music Association, the unaffiliated counterpart to the International Bluegrass Music Association in the US, has announced the 2015 recipients of their Bluegrass Pioneers and Personalities Awards. This serves as a Hall of Fame of sorts, noting musicians, promoters, journalists,

The first round of Bluegrass Pioneer and Personalities awards has been announced by the European Bluegrass Music Association. This special award category was created during 2012 by the EBMA to recognize the most influential figures in the European bluegrass community, both

Irish bluegrass balladeer Niall Toner has just been announced as the recipient of the first annual EBMA European Bluegrass Personality of the Year award. It will be presented on March 16 during the 5th annual Bluegrass Summit in Prague. This new award is part of