• KET to film at Fan Fest

    Kentucky Educational Television, a statewide public TV network, will be descending upon Bluegrass Fan Fest in Nashville this year to film multiple episodes for their popular Jubilee program. The show features live performances of bluegrass and acoustic music, to date all filmed

  • Momentum Awards suggestions due this week

    We have written in the past about the new Momentum Awards, recently announced by the International Bluegrass Music Association, to recognize artists and industry folks in the early stages of their careers. The IBMA is working on a short horizon this

  • More on the Momentum Awards

    IBMA's newly-announced Momentum Awards have generated a bit of confusion among the membership, and within the wider bluegrass community. That is partly due to the fact that these new honors (for artists, venues and business people who are just starting to

  • Blue Yodel #36 – The Inertia Awards

    Inertia: (noun) The resistance of any object to a change in its state of motion or rest, or the tendency of an object to resist any change. Wikipedia, p. 39,537,435. Further evidence of an IBMA conspiracy to promote bluegrass came to

  • IBMA to debut Momentum Awards

    The International Bluegrass Music Association has a announced a new set of awards to be distributed during their annual World Of Bluegrass convention. These will be separate from the annual International Bluegrass Music Awards, and focus specifically on new artists in

  • IBMA Awards Deadline Looms

    Time is running out to submit nominations for special awards that will be presented at IBMA’s World of Bluegrass conference in Nashville this September. E-mail nominations must be received by this Friday, June 29. Nominations sent by U.S. mail need to