FreshGrass Awards finalists with Alison Brown at FreshGrass North Adams - photo © Mary Heinritz The FreshGrass Foundation has announced the winners of the 2024 FreshGrass Awards, decided this past weekend during the FreshGrass Festival in North Adams, MA. Each year contestants
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FreshGrass announces their 2024 Awards finalists
The FreshGrass festival in North Adams, MA has announced the finalists for their 2024 FreshGrass Awards. This annual invitational instrument and band competition brings finalists in to the festival in September to vie for more than $20,000 in cash and
Applications open for 2023 FreshGrass Awards
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
2022 FreshGrass Award winners
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
Submissions open for 2022 FreshGrass Awards competition
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
2021 finalists for the FreshGrass Awards
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
2021 FreshGrass Awards for instrumental bluegrass
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,
2020 Steve Martin Banjo Prize to be shared among five banjoists
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
Steve Martin Banjo Prize partners with FreshGrass and Compass
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
FreshGrass festival adds a second site in Arkansas
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