• Last day at IBMA

    Well, it's Sunday morning, and Brance and I will be headed back home sometime today. We still have a great many photos to pore through, and get the best of them up on the site, but we have to tear

  • Friday Night Fan Fest Report

    The Business Conference portion of the IBMA World Of Bluegrass is over and we are firmly into the Fan Fest. I'm pretty tired from a full week of activities, but I did make it out to several of the shows

  • A few more links to IBMA stories

    We found a few more articles in the online versions of print papers covering the IBMA events this past week. The Nashville City Paper had a story earlier in the week about the IBMA Business Conference, and a new one

  • IBMA Awards covered in Billboard

    Billboard.com, the online version of Billboard magazine, has a brief article about the IBMA Awards, written by Deborah Evans Price. It doesn't contain any news for readers of Bluegrass Today, but it is worth noting that the larger music industry

  • Award Show Thoughts

    Last evenings award show brought a few surprises, to most of us I'm sure. Of course the big surprise was Cherryholmes winning Entertainer Of The Year. I'm glad they won, though I had really expected them to win Emerging Artist

  • IBMA 2005 Awards Winners

    Here are the IBMA 2005 Awards Winners, side by side with the winners of our poll. AwardIBMA WinnerBluegrass Today Winner Entertainer of the YearCherryholmesDoyle Lawson and Quicksilver Instrumental Group of the YearRicky Skaggs and Kentucky ThunderRicky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder Vocal Group of the

  • Friday morning at IBMA

    Well, the Awards Show has come and gone. We had a great time live blogging the event. We did have a few problems with the server last night and some people may have experienced difficulty accessing the site for a

  • Dan Loftin photos

    Here are a few more of the photos Dan Loftin has taken during IBMA week. We actually have more - dozens more - that we will pore through and post over the next few days, but some may not get

  • Whew…

    Well, we're done, folks. What a great show! Sorry for the server problems. That is first thing on the list when we get back to the hotel - as soon as we grab some dinner! We hope it wasn't a