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  • Applications open for 2023 FreshGrass Awards

    March 23, 2023 | by John Lawless

    Applications are open for the 2023 FreshGrass Awards, one of the most remunerative music competitions in the bluegrass world, offering more than $20,000 in cash prizes for band, banjo, fiddle, and guitar. Plus the FreshGrass Festival where the competition takes

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  • 2022 FreshGrass Award winners

    September 27, 2022 | by John Lawless

    The Wildmans, band competition winners in the 2022 FreshGrass Awards This past weekend at the FreshGrass Festival in North Adams, MA, selected finalists went head-to-head in the 2022 FreshGrass Awards competition. The contest is held each year in two stages, with a

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  • Submissions open for 2022 FreshGrass Awards competition

    March 24, 2022 | by John Lawless

    Instrumentalists and bands are invited to submit to compete for the 2022 FreshGrass Awards with its $12,500 in cash prizes. Awards are offered for banjo, fiddle, guitar, and full band, with the band winner also receiving a day of recording

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  • 2021 finalists for the FreshGrass Awards

    August 9, 2021 | by John Lawless

    The FreshGrass Foundation has announced the finalists in their 2021 FreshGrass Awards for unsigned bluegrass, old time, and Americana artists. More than $30,000 is to be awarded to the winners in five categories, with three finalists in each. Winners will be

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  • 2021 FreshGrass Awards for instrumental bluegrass

    April 22, 2021 | by John Lawless

    The FreshGrass Foundation has announced more than $25,00 in prizes for the 2021 FreshGrass Awards. Winners are selected in a two-stage process, with finalists chosen from submissions received by June 15, who then compete during the FreshGrass festival in Massachusetts,

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  • 2020 Steve Martin Banjo Prize to be shared among five banjoists

    October 12, 2020 | by John Lawless

    The five co-winners of the 2020 Steve Martin Banjo Prize were announced today by the FreshGrass Foundation, who had partnered earlier this year with Steve Martin to keep this award, which he initially conceived and funded, going forward into the

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  • Steve Martin Banjo Prize partners with FreshGrass and Compass

    August 19, 2020 | by John Lawless

    The Steve Martin Prize for Excellence in Banjo and Bluegrass Music has for the past ten years awarded a grant of $50,000 annually to a prominent 5 string banjoist which Steve and his Board of Directors have selected. The first

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  • FreshGrass festival adds a second site in Arkansas

    October 10, 2019 | by John Lawless

    FreshGrass, the festival and organization based in Massachusetts, has announced a second event under their banner to be held in Bentonville, AR. And like the original in North Adams, MA, which  is held on the campus of the Massachusetts Museum

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  • FreshGrass award finalists for 2017 announced

    June 15, 2017 | by John Lawless

    The annual FreshGrass festival, held on the campus of the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA), has announced the invited finalists in their various competitions. They will go head to head on Sunday, September 17, on the last day

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  • No Depression takes to Kickstarter for return to print

    May 12, 2015 | by John Lawless

    No Depression, initially a folk arts print quarterly, then an online alternative music magazine, is planning a return to paper and ink with the help of an online crowdsourcing campaign. Now under the direction of the FreshGrass team, No Depression

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