The IBMA Foundation, previously known as the Foundation for Bluegrass Music, has announced a new partnership with The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee, also based in Nashville. Charitable giving to associations intended to foster the growth and preservation of bluegrass is
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IBMA Special Awards nominees for 2018
This morning the International Bluegrass Music Association has released the names of the nominees for their Special Awards, a set of honors for members of the industry who work behind the scenes, and their Momentum Awards, designated for artists in
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Jaelee Roberts Carries on the Family Tradition
Music has been part of her life for longer than 17-year-old Jaelee Roberts can remember. Her earliest memories are of being backstage at the Opry when dad Danny Roberts, mandolin player and founding member of the Grascals, played there. But even
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1st annual Ozark Mountain Bluegrass Festival in Branson
Branson, MO has become a hotbed for music in the central US. Located near the Missouri/Arkansas border, the city has grown since the 1960s into a major destination for entertainment travelers, with hundreds of shows running at more than 35
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Nick Forster talks 40 years of Hot Rize
Photo of Nick Forster by Ted Lehmann “It wasn’t that we had this great design where it was like “oh man, we’re going to put together a band and it will last 40 years. We were young and it was an
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Track Premiere: Next Train South from the Po’ Ramblin’ Boys
The Po' Ramblin' Boys continue on in their effort to bring back the old time bluegrass sound with their first single release on Rounder Records. Reaching way back to 1974, the Boys turn in a top notch version of Next Train
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Listermann brewing Stanley Brothers beer this month
Listermann Brewing Company in Cincinnati is launching a special tribute beer this weekend in honor of the upcoming 75th anniversary of King Records, a Cincinnati institution. The beer is a New England style IPA titled Hide Away/Train 45, for popular
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Beautiful Moment for Darin & Brooke Aldridge
Darin and Brooke Aldridge had time to spare before their evening set at the Coleman Station Bluegrass Festival last Saturday in southwestern Pennsylvania, so they took side roads instead of their usual turnpike route. In the process, they made a new
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Cover Story – Love Canon
Cover Story, the 4th album from Virginia's Love Canon, is among the most interesting releases we have covered at Bluegrass Today. It's not really a bluegrass record in the traditional sense of the word, or even an exhibition of bluegrass
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More from RockyGrass 2018
Old and in The Way reunion at RockyGrass 2018 - photo by Kevin Slick Kevin Slick with the Colorado Bluegrass Association shared some more photos from this past weekend's RockyGrass festival in Lyons, CO. He captured special on-stage reunions of Old and