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The Infamous Stringdusters on the red carpet at the 2021 IBMA Bluegrass Music Awards - photo © Bill Reaves We love to see our favorite bluegrass stars all decked out for the IBMA Bluegrass Music Awards each year. As they come

Cliff Waldron with Larry Stephenson at the 2021 IBMA Industry Awards - photo © Bill Reaves Here are the images Bill Reaves captured today at World of Bluegrass, encompassing the Industry Awards, the Exhibit Hall, and random scenes here and there.

This report is a contribution from Audie Finnell, who also provided the photos. Billed as the longest running bluegrass festival in Georgia, the Armuchee Bluegrass Festival closed out its 49th season over the Labor Day weekend. While founder Chuck Langley made

This visit with Jaroslav Průcha is a contribution from Matt Scutchfield, a music vlogger, journalist, graduate of Berklee College of Music, and current associate concert producer at The Wild Rose Moon Performing Arts Center in Plymouth, IN. He is of Eastern

We wrote on Monday about the disastrous flooding in middle Tennessee, and the efforts of locals, including bluegrass artist Daryl Mosley, to raise funds to assist those left homeless from substantial rainfall on August 21. Another set of storms caused serious

Grand finale with Marian at Mohelnický FolkFest in Czechia - photo by Matt Scutchfield This review of the Mohelnický FolkFest in Mohelnice, Czechia is a contribution from Matt Scutchfield, a music vlogger, journalist, graduate of Berklee College of Music, and current associate concert

Anyone who knows her realizes that Kristin Scott Benson is a musician of the highest caliber, as her multiple IBMA Banjo Player of the Year awards can attest, but also that she is among the most thoughtful and intelligent people

This article, written by Anni Beach, originally appeared in The Cornerstone, the newsletter of The IBMA Foundation. They have agreed to let us republish it to reach a wider audience. It also helps explain why she was chosen as Mentor

The Del McCoury Band at RockyGrass 2021 - photo by Kevin Slick This RockyGrass 2021 report is a contribution from Kevin Slick, President of The Colorado Bluegrass Music Society, and an avid picker and photographer in the region. RockyGrass returned to Lyons,

Junior Sisk at the 2021 Starvy Creek Summer Bluegrass Festival - photo by Charlie Herbst This past weekend, the 36th annual Starvy Creek Summer Bluegrass festival was held in Conway, MO. Festival promoters decided to call the 2021 festival the 36th