Wichita Rutherford is accepting the award from Bryan. What a hoot!
IBMA 2005
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IBMA Guitar Player Of The Year for 2005
The award for the artist who, on recorded and/or in-person performance during the specified time period, has shown an extraordinary mastery of their instrument. The award goes to the individual. The Guitar Player Of The Year for 2005 is: Bryan
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Skaggs’ acceptance…
Passes a tribute to JD and Paul - calls JD "The Claw Of Life." Darren Vincent accepts for the band, praises Ricky as a great band leader.
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IBMA Instrumental Group Of The Year for 2005
The award for a group who regularly performs together that has shown outstanding recorded and in-person performance in the area of instrumental performance. It is not limited to groups which only perform instrumentals. The award goes to each group member.
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Presenting the first award…
The award for Instrumental Group of the Year is being presented by JD Crowe and Paul Williams.
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On stage now…
The first act up tonight is Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder performing Sis Draper.
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The show starts!
We're live! It's 8:00 p.m. here in Nashville and the 2005 International Bluegrass Music Awards are on the air! The Issacs are launching the show with The Star Spangled Banner.
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About to begin!
It looks like the show is about to begin. David Crowe is "prepping" the audience, making sure that everybody is on their best behavior. No speeches longer than 30 seconds, etc. We'll see how that goes...
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Photo galleries disabled temporarily – sorry
Due to the higher than usual server load this week, we have been exceeding our available CPU resources, so to avoid service disruptions during the Awards Show, we are disabling the photo galleries for the next few hours. We apologize
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Format for awards announcements
As each award is announced, we will post the name of the recipient, along with the winner of our reader-driven Bluegrass Blog Awards Poll. It will be fun to see how many coincide. We will also include the official IBMA