The award for the outstanding female vocalist based on recorded and in-person performance. The award goes to the individual.
The nominees for Female Vocalist Of The Year for 2005 are:
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IBMA Song Of The Year Nominees for 2005
| Song Title links to audio |
Artist(s) links to artist(s) |
Songwriter(s) links to writer(s) |
| Georgia Peaches | Larry Sparks | Carl Jackson & Alan Laney |
| Heartbreak Number Nine | Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver | Barry Scott & Jamie Dailey |
| Me and John and Paul | The Grascals | Harley Allen |
| Rain Please Go Away | Alison Krauss & Union Station | Del McCoury |
| You Gotta Dig A Little Deeper | Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver | Carl H. Caldwell |
IBMA Gospel Recorded Performance Of The Year Nominees for 2005
This award is for an outstanding gospel recorded performance, of one or more songs, new or old, first commercially released or showed significant chart action during the eligibility period. Recorded performance may be vocal, instrumental, or a combination of both. The award goes to the featured artist(s), producer, and label.
The nominees for Gospel Recorded Performance Of The Year for 2005 are:
| Song Title links to audio |
Artist(s) links to artist(s) |
Label links to label |
| A Living Prayer | Alison Krauss & Union Station | Rounder |
| Gospel In Black & White | Marty Raybon & Full Circle | Synchoro |
| I’ll Be No Stranger There | Paul Williams & The Victory Trio |
Rebel |
| I Want To Live Beyond The Grave |
Mountain Heart | Skaggs Family |
| Praise His Name | Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver | Crossroads |
IBMA Banjo Player Of The Year Nominees for 2005
The awards for artists who, on recorded and/or in-person performance during the specified time period, have shown an extraordinary mastery of their instruments. Nominations and awards will be made in six (6) sub-categories: Banjo, Bass, Dobro, Fiddle, Guitar and Mandolin. The awards go to the artists.
The nominees for Banjo Player Of The Year for 2005 are:
IBMA Bass Player Of The Year Nominees or 2005
The awards for artists who, on recorded and/or in-person performance during the specified time period, have shown an extraordinary mastery of their instruments. Nominations and awards will be made in six (6) sub-categories: Banjo, Bass, Dobro, Fiddle, Guitar and Mandolin. The awards go to the artists.
The nominees for Bass Player Of The Year for 2005 are:
IBMA Mandolin Player Of The Year Nominees for 2005
The awards for artists who, on recorded and/or in-person performance during the specified time period, have shown an extraordinary mastery of their instruments. Nominations and awards will be made in six (6) sub-categories: Banjo, Bass, Dobro, Fiddle, Guitar and Mandolin. The awards go to the artists.
The nominees for Mandolin Player Of The Year for 2005 are:
IBMA Special Awards Nominees for 2005
The following awards are determined by special procedures and committees are enlisted to review recommendations, consider nominations related to the criteria and determine recipients. Finalists will be recognized and winners will be announced at the Special Awards Luncheon, scheduled for Thursday, Oct. 27 at The Renaissance Hotel in Nashville.
The nominees for Bluegrass Broadcaster Of The Year for 2005 are:
| Cindy Baucom | Knee Deep In Bluegrass syndicated program, Elkin, NC |
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| Terry Herd | Sirius Satellite Radio/Bluegrass Radio Network syndicated program, Nashville, TN |
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| Joan Kornblith | Voice Of America, Washington, DC | web site |
The nominees for Bluegrass Event Of The Year for 2005 are:
| Minnesota Bluegrass & Old Time Music Festival |
El Rancho Manana Campground St Cloud, MN; August 2004 |
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| WinterGrass | Tacoma, WA; February 2005 | web site |
| 32nd Annual RockyGrass | Lyons, CO; July 23-25, 2004 | web site |
The nominees for Bluegrass Print Media Person Of The Year for 2005 are:
| Tom Ewing | Thirty Years Ago column, Bluegrass Unlimited |
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| Charles Haymes | Music Spotlight, syndicated columnist | |
| Stephanie P. Ledgin | author of Home Grown Music: Discovering Bluegrass (Greenwood Publishing Group) |
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The nominees for Best Graphic Design for a Recorded Project for 2005 are:
| Wayne Brezinka (designer) |
Various Artists, The Unbroken Circle: The Musical Heritage of the Carter Family, Dualtone Records |
web site |
| Joanne Lauterjung (designer) |
John Reischman & the Jaybirds The Road West, Corvus Records |
web site |
| Sue Meyer (designer) |
The Duhks, The Duhks, Sugar Hill Records | web site |
The nominees for Best Liner Notes for a Recorded Project for 2005 are:
| Jon Hartley Fox (liner notes) |
Red Allen, Lonesome & Blue The Complete Country Recordings, Rebel Records |
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| Eddie Stubbs (liner notes) |
Don Reno & Red Smily Sweethearts In Heaven, Bear family |
web site |
| Billy Altman (liner notes) |
Various Artists, Can’t You Hear Me Callin’ – Bluegrass: 80 Years of American Music, Columbia Legacy | web site |
IBMA 2005 Award Nominees
Bluegrass Today will be providing expanded coverage of the nominations for these awards, with posts following today that include the names of each nominee, along with links to their web sites, bios and audio, in each of the 17 award categories. We hope that this coverage will aid members of the press who will be reporting on the awards, as well as IBMA members who want to do some research before casting their votes.
These detailed nominee posts will be available starting at 12:30 p.m. on Tuesday August 30, and will remain on the web site until the actual winners are announced on October 27.
Pinecastle releases Ultimate Pickin’ CD
Tunes on Ultimate Pickin’ include: Clinch Mountain Backstep, Foggy Mountain Special, Jerusalem Ridge, Leather Britches, Little Rock Getaway, Dear Old Dixie and 14 other classic bluegrass instrumentals. The original CD releases were the subject of two AcuTab transcription books, for Scott Vestal (banjo) and Wayne Benson (mandolin).
This is terrific music, passionately performed and likely to be remembered in future as a definitive statement of the state of the art in bluegrass music at the turn of the last century.
The Crooked Road – VA tourism and traditional string music
The Roanoke Times (local newspaper for this blog’s authors) has a terrific series of articles – and some snappy multimedia content on their web site – about the efforts of the state of Virginia to capitalize on the interest in traditional string music as a tourist attraction for southwestern VA.
Officially named The Heritage Music Trail, the project has been more casually dubbed “The Crooked Road,” for the shape of the trail itself, which joins a number of sites in SW VA with ties to this music.
In addition to Floyd, Galax and Stanley country, stops include the the Birthplace of Country Music Museum in Bristol, the Blue Ridge Music Center on the Blue Ridge Parkway near Galax, the Carter Family Fold in Hiltons, the Country Cabin in Norton and the Blue Ridge Institute at Ferrum College.
The print series (viewable online) is authored by Roanoke Times staff writer Ralph Berrier, an old time fiddler himself, who does a very thorough and respectful job with this series. The multimedia content (click on the fiddle icon on the left) was created by Roanoke Times Multimedia Editor Seth Gitner. Highly recommended for anyone with an interest in this region, the origins of our music or the efforts of the state of VA to draw attention to it with tourism in mind.
