After months of intense speculation, the International Bluegrass Music Association announced today the new home for its annual World of Bluegrass conference and festival. After one last hurrah this September in Raleigh, North Carolina, the event’s home since 2013, […]
The week following AmericanaFest in Nashville, many fans of roots music trekked 539 miles due east to downtown Raleigh, North Carolina, for the largest urban bluegrass festival in the world, the International Bluegrass Music Association’s World of Bluegrass. The first […]
The 34th annual International Bluegrass Music Awards took place in Raleigh, North Carolina, Thursday night to much fanfare and naturally, a few banjo jokes. No Depression‘s Assistant Editor, Stacy Chandler, worked behind the scenes to write the script for […]
The International Bluegrass Music Association announced the nominees for its 2023 awards today in a live broadcast from SiriusXM studios in Nashville. Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway leads the nominations with seven, and Billy Strings makes a strong showing […]
This week bluegrass takes over the column, just days after the International Bluegrass Music Association’s annual takeover of Raleigh, North Carolina, with its World of Bluegrass festival. The fest demonstrated two things to me: 1) bluegrass just keeps becoming […]
The 32nd annual International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA) awards nominees were announced in a livestream Tuesday morning from Nashville’s Station Inn. The nominees largely hewed to a list of usual suspects, with a lot of overlap with last year’s […]
Like everything else this year, the International Bluegrass Music Association’s World of Bluegrass conference and festival has had to shift online, so instead of rambling from show to show in downtown Raleigh, North Carolina, and crowding around jams in […]
As COVID-19 precautions make large gatherings impossible for the foreseeable future, the biggest conferences in roots music have called off their in-person events and are working to create parallel experiences online. After announcing the cancellation of AmericanaFest last week, the […]
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 […]
This year’s IBMA World of Bluegrass was exciting and engaging from start to finish, with varied and exciting performances, wonderful vignettes, and changes galore. The success of World of Bluegrass and Wide Open bluegrass depends on the partnership between the […]
