Bluegrass Asociations News

Just in time for the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade, the Owenboro-Daviess County Convention & Visitors Bureau has made a Bill Monroe ad buy for the huge digital billboard in New York's Times Square. The ad will run November 15 to January

Jill Geary from San Diego, CA is the winner of the Grand Prize in the 2010 World Of Bluegrass Sweepstakes. This annual contest offers a number of winners to travel to the IBMA convention in Nashville and attend free of

September 9 marked the 14th anniversary of Bill Monroe's passing , and NPR's All Thing's Considered took the occasion to remember Big Mon in a piece about the Bluegrass Boys reunion at the International Bluegrass Music Museum earlier this summer. NPR's

FestivaLink, the online purveyor of live show downloads, has released a special package of sets from Merlefest 2010, with a portion of the sales proceeds going to benefit the Bluegrass Trust Fund. The fund is administered by the International Bluegrass Music

Attention independent documentary filmmakers... The Northern California Bluegrass Society is accepting submissions for their 4th annual NCBS International Bluegrass Music Museum Film Festival through October 25, 2010. The film festival is held in conjunction with the Bluegrass On Broadway Festival, a

The European Bluegrass Blog has been posting some news recently concerning the future of Bluegrass Europe magazine. It seems the board of the European Bluegrass Music Association (EBMA) has decided to continue publication of the magazine, as a stand-alone publication beginning

The nominees for the 2010 International Bluegrass Music Awards have been announced. The list was read at a press conference in Nashville earlier this morning. Not many surprises in the list, though IIIrd Tyme Out is more prominent among the various

On September 10, the International Bluegrass Music Museum in Owensboro, KY will open the second of three Bill Monroe exhibits as part of the ongoing two-year observation of his 100th birthday (9/13/11). The first exhibit, The Bill Monroe Centennial Art Exhibit

Each year, the professional members of the International Bluegrass Music Association vote to elect representatives to the organization's board of directors. The board members serve three year terms, with a limited number of seats being up for election each year,

Sam Bush has been confirmed as the Keynote Speaker at the 2010 IBMA World Of Bluegrass convention in Nashville (9/27-10/3). He will speak on the opening night of the week-long event, Monday (September 27), and his speech will examine bluegrass music