The IBMA Foundation has announced their 2nd annual Strings for Dreams raffle to benefit the organization's charitable and educational efforts. This year's raffle offers chances to win a 2010 Huber Banjos Truetone VRB-3 model, donated by longtime Foundation supporter Richard Spratt.
The IBMA Foundation is really on a roll this year, bringing new ways to support young bluegrass artists to the fore on what seems like a monthly basis. The Foundation is the charitable and educational arm of the International Bluegrass
The Pisgah Banjo Company in Asheville, NC is offering a unique old time banjo in a raffle to benefit the IBMA Foundation's Arnold Shultz Fund. The Fund, established in 2020 to encourage greater participation by people of color in traditional old-time and
The IBMA Foundation, the charitable, philanthropic, and educational arm of the International Bluegrass Music Association, has announced a new J.D. Crowe Banjo Scholarship for those planning to study the five string banjo in college, or who play banjo in a
The IBMA Foundation, the educational and philanthropic arm of the International Bluegrass Music Association, has announced this morning the recipients of their 2022 project grants. These awards are going to 11 organizations across eight states, amounting to more than $21,000,
The IBMA Foundation has announced today the launch of the new Katy Daley Broadcast Media/Sound Engineering Scholarship. It will be awarded annually to individuals planning to study broadcasting or sound engineering at college or in a continuing education program with a bluegrass
The IBMA Foundation is starting the year with some wonderful news. Their Rick Lang Music Songwriter Scholarship has been permanently funded, thanks to a generous $50,000 grant from Rick and Wendy Lang. Rick and Wendy operate Highland Hardwoods in Brentwood, NH,
Dom Flemons teaches a recent banjo class hosted by the Black Banjo Reclamation Project at the Old Time School of Folk Music in Chicago Following several generations of African Americans running away from old time music and the banjo in particular, the
The IBMA Foundation, the educational and philanthropic arm of the International Bluegrass Music Association, has announced that the deadline for their annual project grants is December 1, 2021. Each year the Foundation distributes roughly $14,000 to non-profit entities with a 501(c)(3)
The IBMA Foundation, the philanthropic arm of the International Bluegrass Music Association, has announced the recipients of their various college scholarship awards for the fall semester of 2021. Five recipients have been named to receive tuition grants from four specific programs
