International Bluegrass Music Association Announces 2019 Award Nominees
Stacy Chandler
Posted On July 24, 2019
Clockwise from top left, nominees for 2019 IBMA Awards include Mile Twelve, Del McCoury, Sister Sadie, and Joe Mullins and the Radio Ramblers.
Live from Nashville on Wednesday, the International Bluegrass Music Association announced the nominees for its 2019 awards, as voted by the association’s professional members and committee members. The awards will be given out Thursday, Sept. 26, during IBMA’s World of Bluegrass conference in Raleigh, North Carolina. Tickets for the 30th annual awards show are available to the public here and the show will be broadcast live on Facebook and on Sirius XM’s Bluegrass Junction channel starting at 7:30 p.m. ET.
Here’s a partial list of nominees:
ALBUM OF THE YEAR
City on a Hill, Mile Twelve
Del McCoury Still Sings Bluegrass, Del McCoury Band
For the Record, Joe Mullins and the Radio Ramblers
I Hear Bluegrass Calling Me, Carolina Blue
Sister Sadie II, Sister Sadie
SONG OF THE YEAR
(seven nominees due to a tie)
“Dance, Dance, Dance,” Appalachian Road Show
writers Brenda Cooper, Joseph Cooper, Steve Miller
“Next Train South,” Po’ Ramblin’ Boys
writer Mac Patterson
“Take the Journey,” Molly Tuttle
writers Molly Tuttle and Sarah Siskind
“The Girl Who Invented the Wheel,” Balsam Range
writers Adam Wright and Shannon Wright
“The Guitar Song,” Joe Mullins and the Radio Ramblers with Del McCoury
writers Bill Anderson, Jamey Johnson, Vicky McGehee
“The Light in Carter Stanley’s Eyes,” Peter Rowan
writer Peter Rowan
“Thunder Dan,” Sideline
writer Josh Manning
VOCAL GROUP OF THE YEAR
Balsam Range
Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver
I’m With Her
Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out
Sister Sadie
INSTRUMENTAL GROUP
Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper
The Earls of Leicester
The Travelin’ McCourys
Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder
Sam Bush Band
ENTERTAINER OF THE YEAR
Balsam Range
Del McCoury Band
Joe Mullins and the Radio Ramblers
The Earls of Leicester
Sam Bush Band
BANJO
Gina Furtado
Mike Munford
Noam Pikelny
Kristin Scott Benson
Scott Vestal
BASS
Barry Bales
Mike Bub
Beth Lawrence
Missy Raines
Mark Schatz
FIDDLE
Hunter Berry
Becky Buller
Jason Carter
Michael Cleveland
Stuart Duncan
RESOPHONIC GUITAR
Jerry Douglas
Andy Hall
Rob Ickes
Phil Leadbetter
Justin Moses
GUITAR
Billy Strings
Kenny Smith
Bryan Sutton
Molly Tuttle
Josh Williams
MANDOLIN
Alan Bibey
Ronnie McCoury
Sierra Hull
Sam Bush
Frank Solivan
FEMALE VOCALIST
Brooke Aldridge
Dale Ann Bradley
Sierra Hull
Molly Tuttle
Rhonda Vincent
MALE VOCALIST
Russell Moore
Danny Paisley
Shawn Camp
Tim O’Brien
Del McCoury
NEW ARTIST
Mile Twelve
Carolina Blue
High Fidelity
Billy Strings
Appalachian Road Show
DISTINGUISHED ACHIEVEMENT
Katy Daley
Radio personality
Mickey Gamble
Mountain Home label
Dan Hays
Former IBMA executive director
Alan Mills
Founding member of The Lost and Found
Moonshiner
Long-running Japanese-language bluegrass music magazine
IBMA HALL OF FAME INDUCTEES
Mike Auldridge
Dobro player and co-founder of the Seldom Scene
Bill Emerson
Banjo player, original member of The Country Gentlemen, leader of U.S. Navy band Country Current
The Kentucky Colonels
West Coast bluegrass band led by Clarence and Roland White
