The Society for the Preservation of Bluegrass Music of America has announced the nominees for their 40th Annual SPBGMA Bluegrass Music Awards. The winners will be determined by fan balloting, and announced during the 2014 SPBGMA convention in Nashville, January 30-February
One of the fun supplements to the World of Bluegrass events this year in Raleigh, NC was having the North Carolina Pork Council's Whole Hog Barbecue championship held during the weekend's Wide Open Bluegrass festival. The aroma of pig on the
Della Mae celebrating their Grammy nomination in Nashville Following up on our notice earlier about the announcement last night of the nominees for the 2014 Best Bluegrass Album in the The National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences Grammy award, we got some
The 2014 Grammy nominees were announced on Friday evening. In the midst of the cavalcade of glitzy stars was news of the all-important Best Bluegrass Album. And the nominees are: It's Just A Road - The Boxcars, Mountain Home Brothers Of The Highway - Dailey
At their annual convention in September of this year, the International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA) Board of Directors approved a new mission statement. The new statement reads ... IBMA is the trade association that connects and educates bluegrass professionals, empowers the bluegrass
The winners of the 35th annual Central Canadian Bluegrass Award were announced in Huntsville, ON this past weekend. Voting for nominees and winners is limited to members of the Northern Bluegrass Committee, who sponsor the awards, or one of six regional bluegrass clubs
Nominees have been announced for the 35th Annual Central Canadian Bluegrass Awards, to be held later this month at the Deerhurst Resort in Huntsville, ON (2 hours north of Toronto). Voting for nominees and winners is limited to members of the
The 2013 West Virginia Music Hall of Fame induction ceremony is scheduled for November 16, 2023 at Charleston's Culture Center Theater. This fifth class of inductees contains three artists beloved by bluegrass fans: The Goins Brothers, and Tim O'Brien. Melvin Goins has
At last night's 19th annual Inspirational Country Music Awards in Nashville, The Roys were chosen as Inspirational Bluegrass Artist for 2013, an honor they have received for the past three years running. The brother/sister duet team play contemporary bluegrass with a
The City of Shelby, NC has given a lot to the rest of the US. A handful of NASCAR drivers, NFL and MLB players, a notorious bank robber and a sitting US Senator all hail from this town of just
