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Later this month, the International Bluegrass Music Association will celebrate its 25th Anniversary in Nashville just prior to the June 23 edition of Music City Roots at the Loveless Barn. IBMA will host a dinner and reception beginning at 5:00 p.m.

The first round ballots have been mailed to voting members of the International Bluegrass Music Association, and judging from the email we have been receiving, each and every artist currently recording and performing bluegrass music would appreciate your vote. Now I

Nashvilled-based Compass Records is running a special sale which ends tomorrow (5/18), with $5 from each CD sold going to the IBMA Bluegrass Trust Fund. The Compass headquarters were not damaged in the recent Nashville flooding, but seeing the devastation

Continuing on the Nashville flood relief theme... The Bluegrass Trust Fund, managed by the International Bluegrass Music Association, is available for direct assistance to people who work in the bluegrass industry and have been affected by the recent flooding. This trust

Each year in the month of May, the largest bluegrass event in Europe takes place, the European World of Bluegrass (EWOB). This year's event kicks off later this week, running May 13-15, 2010. Since IBMA recently announced the lineup of

In a recent communiqué with a portion of the organizational membership (via IBMA-L), Executive Director Dan Hays recapped last month's IBMA board meeting, including an announcement concerning the celebration of Worldwide Bluegrass Music Month. A grass roots event with no official

Here's one last piece on IBMA's 2010 Leadership Bluegrass, this time from Gary Reid. Gary has spent a lifetime in service to bluegrass music, working first at Rebel Records and then with his own label, Copper Creek Records. He has also

Here is another set of reflections on Leadership Bluegrass 2010, this time from Carol Beaugard, host of Lonesome Pine RFD, heard on both WFDU-FM in the New York City metro market and on WAMU's Bluegrass Country online. Her show airs

Phil Bankester, pére of the pickin' and singin' Bankester Family, was among the participants in the 2010 Leadership Bluegrass class. He passed along these thoughts about his time in Nashville last week. "Leadership Bluegrass was an incredible experience. It was three days of

IBMA’s 2010 Leadership Bluegrass class has recently concluded, and we will be posting comments from some of the participants, as we have done in the past. Each year 25 participants are selected from those who apply for this 3-day workshop in