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IBMA Announces 2013 Leadership Bluegrass participants

| February 6, 2013 | 0 Comments
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The International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA) has released the following names of the attendees for the Leadership Bluegrass class for 2013, which will take place in Nashville, Tennessee, from Thursday – Saturday, March 7-9, 2013. Leadership Bluegrass, now in its 14th year with more than [...]

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IBMA registration details announced

| February 4, 2013 | 0 Comments
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The International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA) has announced that registration for IBMA’s World of Bluegrass Events and hotel reservations will open March 1, 2013, for bluegrass music’s annual industry gathering and family reunion which will, for the first time, be held in Raleigh, NC. The [...]

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Songwriter to Songwriter – Jesse Langlais

| January 9, 2013 | 0 Comments
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Oops… here’s one of David Morris’ Songwriter to Songwriter interviews we recorded last Fall at World of Bluegrass, that hadn’t yet been posted. This one finds David in discussion with Jesse Langlais from Town Mountain.  

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IBMA moving across town

| January 4, 2013 | 0 Comments
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On top of last year’s news about the World of Bluegrass convention moving to Raleigh, NC for 2013-2016, comes word that the International Bluegrass Music Association office is moving as well. But only a couple miles from their current location on Music Row, to a [...]

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Job opening at IBMA

| November 27, 2012 | 0 Comments
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IBMA has announced a job opening for the office in Nashville, which will complete the changeover necessitated by Nancy Cardwell accepting the Executive Director position earlier this year. Cardwell was initially elevated to interim director in March of 2012 after the departure of previous director [...]

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Giving Thanks (Bluegrass Edition)

| November 22, 2012 | 0 Comments
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While we count our many blessings, I want to take a couple of minutes to note some of the things I’m thankful for in the bluegrass world. For starters, I’m grateful that folks like Bill Monroe, Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs had the foresight to [...]

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IBMA Acting On Audit Recommendations

| November 19, 2012 | 0 Comments
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IBMA is taking steps to implement some of the recommendations noted in the recently released independent audit. Auditors for Collinsworth, Bright and Co. gave the association a relatively clean bill of health in their review of finances from Jan. 1, 2006, to Dec. 31, 2010. [...]

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Songwriter to Songwriter: Phil Barker

| November 13, 2012 | 1 Comment
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This episode of David Morris’ Songwriter to Songwriter features David’s discussion with Phil Barker of Town Mountain during World of Bluegrass in Nashville this past September.  

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New video from the Foundation for Bluegrass Music

| November 12, 2012 | 0 Comments
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The Foundation for Bluegrass Music has released a new promotional video to help spread the word about their work, how simply wonderful bluegrass music is, and how you can help them spread that message far and wide. It features remarks from a number of young [...]

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Songwriter to Songwriter: Mark Brinkman

| November 3, 2012 | 1 Comment
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This next installment of David Morris’ Songwriter to Songwriter features his discussion with Mark Brinkman during World of Bluegrass in Nashville in September. They talk about the upcoming Rural Rhythm project, God Didn’t Choose Sides, which features new songs about the Civil War era.  

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