Lonesome River Band – Lifetime VIP Passes!
Lonesome River Band • LRB is celebrating their 30th Anniversary with three albums, CHRONOLOGY Volumes One – Three” on Rural Rhythm Records, and now offering up a special VIP package that also includes a Lifetime Backstage Pass for all LRB shows and a LRB tee-shirt. This mega group certainly continues their reputation as one of the most respected names in bluegrass music. Longtime band member and multi-award winning banjo picker, Sammy Shelor has put together... Read More
Dan Hays • The Franklin Theatre
Franklin Theatre Announces New Director • Music Industry Executive to take office at Historic Franklin Theatre • The Board of Directors of the Heritage Foundation of Franklin and Williamson County today announced that Dan Hays will become the new Director for the Franklin Theatre. Hays’ acceptance of the post culminates a rigorous leadership search for the historic Main Street institution which recently underwent an $8 million renovation with a commitment to be the... Read More
Bluegrass – It’s not the music • Jon Weisberger
Bluegrass – It’s not the music • Jon Weisberger Thanks to recent conversations on- and off-line with a bunch of folks ranging from members of the IBMA’s Board of Directors to the Farewell Drifters‘ Zach Bevill, and prompted more immediately by Chris Pandolfi’s fine meditation on the state of bluegrass, I’ve been inspired to drag out a piece I wrote, incredibly enough (at least to me), six years ago, in the hopes that it might serve... Read More
Nashville Celebrates Bluegrass Week
Tuesday, September 27th, 2011 between Noon and 2:00PM, The Foundation for Bluegrass Music & The City on Nashville Celebrate Bluegrass Week in Nashville, Outdoors at The Ryman Auditorium • Rarely, in the world of music, can historians agree on the exact origins of a particular genre. Nashville, however, has the unique distinction of being able to pinpoint itself as such a birthplace when, in December 1945, a unique combination of Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys... Read More
The Official Sponsors of IBMA’s International Bluegrass Music Awards 2011
A SPECIAL THANKS to THE WORLD OF BLUEGRASS 2011 SPONSORS • Sponsors invest in World of Bluegrass week for many different reasons, but they all involve a genuine interest in supporting the purposes of the events. • Please make it a point anytime and especially during the week of IBMA’s World of Bluegrass 2011 to join us in extending our appreciation for their generous support. If you are on FaceBook please like their FaceBook pages listed below and tell them the IBMA... Read More
The Official Sponsors of IBMA’s FanFest 2011
A SPECIAL THANKS to THE WORLD OF BLUEGRASS 2011 SPONSORS • Sponsors invest in World of Bluegrass week for many different reasons, but they all involve a genuine interest in supporting the purposes of the events. • Please make it a point anytime and especially during the week of IBMA’s World of Bluegrass 2011 to join us in extending our appreciation for their generous support. If you are on FaceBook please like their FaceBook pages listed below and tell... Read More
The Official Sponsors of IBMA’s Business Conference 2011
A SPECIAL THANKS to THE WORLD OF BLUEGRASS 2011 SPONSORS • Sponsors invest in World of Bluegrass week for many different reasons, but they all involve a genuine interest in supporting the purposes of the events. • Please make it a point anytime and especially during the week of IBMA’s World of Bluegrass 2011 to join us in extending our appreciation for their generous support. If you are on FaceBook please like their FaceBook pages listed below and tell them the... Read More
The Official Sponsors of IBMA’s World of Bluegrass 2011
A SPECIAL THANKS to THE WORLD OF BLUEGRASS 2011 SPONSORS • Sponsors invest in World of Bluegrass week for many different reasons, but they all involve a genuine interest in supporting the purposes of the events. • Please make it a point anytime and especially during the week of IBMA’s World of Bluegrass 2011 to join us in extending our appreciation for their generous support. If you are on FaceBook please like their FaceBook pages listed below and tell them the... Read More
Glamour & Grits Says It All, Sam Bush Hosts 22nd IBMA Music Awards
Glamour & Grits Says It All • Award-winning artist, bandleader, songwriter and mandolin monster Sam Bush will host the 22nd annual International Bluegrass Music Awards on Thursday, September 29, at 7:30 p.m. at Nashville’s historic Ryman Auditorium. “It is my pleasure to return as the host for the 2011 IBMA Awards,” Bush said. “As a bluegrass fan and fellow Kentuckian, it’s especially important to me on the 100th year anniversary of Bill Monroe’s... Read More
World of Bluegrass 2011
Photo by Ted Lehmann of Ted Lehmann’s Bluegrass, Books, and Brainstorms World of Bluegrass 2011 • Monday September 26th – Sunday October 2nd, 2011 • The Nashville Convention Center, Nashville, Tennessee World of Bluegrass 2011 will be different from anything you’ve experienced before at IBMA’s annual Business Conference, Awards Show and Bluegrass Fan Fest! We’ll be in the same building but there will be a fresh, new... Read More
