IBMA 2006 Awards

The Dobro Player Of The Year for 2008 is: Rob Ickes web site bio audio Review past recipients of this award.

We have made a few references here on Bluegrass Today to the various reactions that have been generated by the "patriotic theme" of last month's International Bluegrass Music Awards in Nashville. The IBMA Executive Committe made some changes to the

IBMA has been on our minds, and on this blog a lot recently. Most of that due to the recent World of Bluegrass event held in Nashville, TN recently. Some of the discussion of IBMA though has sprung from the

The recent IBMA Awards Show in Nashville resulted in some controversy surrounding the performance of some patriotic material performed by the US Navy Band, Country Current. You'll find all the details in our previous posts here and here. There is

This morning's edition of The Tennessean, Nashville's primary daily newspaper, has a story about the turmoil that has erupted inside the IBMA leadership over the performance by the US Navy band Country Current during last week's International Bluegrass Music Awards. I

A number of people have contacted us, asking about the controversy during last week's International Bluegrass Music Awards, or wondering why we haven't covered it on Bluegrass Today. Both Brance and I were at the show (live blogging backstage), and

This morning I thought we'd take a look at the IBMA 2006 Awards and compare the actualy winners with the winners of our unofficial poll. Our poll was open to all registered users of Bluegrass Today. We'll start at the

If you want to check all the coverage of the 2006 IBMA Awards here on Bluegrass Today, you can click on the tag with that name that appears just below the title of any related post. This will display the

Oops... We neglected to post the list of IBMA's Special Award winners, which were announced and distributed at a luncheon here in Nashville on Thursday afternoon. 2006 Broadcaster of the Year: Red Shipley, WAMU-FM, Washington, D.C. 2006 Bluegrass Event of

Here are the rest of the photos from last night's Awards Show. Photos by Tami Roth © 2006 Vince Gill with The Del McCoury Band Del McCoury and Vince Gill Rhonda Vincent Joe Wheatley, Country Current Frank Solivan II, Country Current Tim O'Brien accepts as Male Vocalist Marty