IBMA 2008

Our own intrepid correspondent, Richard Thompson , spent a week in Nashville in early October, having traveled from the UK to attend the IBMA convention. It was his first trip to IBMA in 20 years, and we thought that his

We still have a lot of folks checking out the 2008 IBMA Red Carpet interview videos, but since they have moved off the front page, it isn't easy to find them all in one place. If you missed them earlier, these

We had a lot of fun producing the Red Carpet videos from IBMA, along with all the other video interviews that we did. We've got some ideas for future video features here on the blog, but we thought we'd check

The fifth, and final, installment of our IBMA Red Carpet interviews (watch episode 1, episode 2, episode 3, and episode 4), finds our hostess Katy Daley, of BluegrassCountry.org, interviewing these bluegrass stars. In this episdoe: The Steeldrivers, Russell Moore, Josh Williams,

The fourth installment of our IBMA Red Carpet interviews (watch episode 1, episode 2, and episode 3), finds our hostess Katy Daley, of BluegrassCountry.org, interviewing these bluegrass stars. In this episdoe: G2 Bluegrass Band, Alan Bartram (Del McCoury Band), Danny Roberts

Here is the third installment of our IBMA Red Carpet interviews (watch episode 1 and episode 2). Our hostess Katy Daley, of BluegrassCountry.org, continues her interviews with bluegrass stars. In this episdoe: Eddie & Martha Adcock, Chris Jones & Ned Luberecki,

Another stolen instrument report. This one is from Bryan Turner of Cumberland Gap Connection. It seems someone swiped his bass Tuesday night at IBMA. This is a somewhat unusual instrument. It's a Knilling Thinline Jazz Bass. It looks much the same

Here is the second installment of our IBMA Red Carpet interviews (watch episode 1). Katy Daley, of BluegrassCountry.org, continues as our hostess and interviews an all-star line up here in episode two. You'll see Del McCoury, Dan Tyminski, Nicky Sanders (Steep

We know a lot of our readers didn't have the opportunity to attend this year's IBMA Awards Show in Nashville. We blogged it live, it was broadcast on XM Satellite Radio, but there was no television coverage of the event.

The IBMA has posted the text of the Keynote Address delivered by Berklee College of Music President Roger Brown at last week's World Of Bluegrass Convention on their web site. His speech addressed two main themes: that the period when