The International Bluegrass Music Association has announced today that banjo players Steve Martin and Alison Brown will serve as hosts of the 2025 IBMA Bluegrass Music Awards on September 18 in Chattanooga, TN. The annual presentation is a gala awards show,
Del McCoury at the 2025 Grey Fox Bluegrass Festival - photo © Morgan Shortell While Tara Linhardt was finding unexpected treats at the side stages during the Grey Fox Bluegrass Festival last week, New York photographer Morgan Shortell was shooting the
What do you get when you combine good friends, hard-driving bluegrass, and fine Kentucky whiskey? That may be something of a loaded question, as a visit to most any bluegrass festival in the Commonwealth could attest, but one answer is the
While Finland's Jussi Syren is preparing a trip to Chattanooga, TN to appear as an official Bluegrass Ramble artist at the World of Bluegrass conference in September, he has a new single with his band, The Groundbreakers. Syren has become the
Following four years on banjo with RalphStanley II & The Clinch Mountain Boys, banjo player Landon Fitzpatrick left the band last year to return home to Georgia, where both he and his wife would be closer to family. He has now
The International Bluegrass Music Association has announced the nominees for their 2025 Industry and Momentum Awards. Both these nominees and the ultimate winners are named by select committees of IBMA members chosen for this purpose, in a multi-stage process of voting. The
Ashley Lewis, who in addition to being an independent bluegrass artist, singer, and songwriter is also our Executive Marketing Manager here at Bluegrass Today, has released a music video for a song she recorded back in 2014, using the digital
Award-winning banjoist Tray Wellington and his talented band have a new single and accompanying music video released today. It's a song he wrote and sings called Man on the Moon, which showcases Tray's more experimental approach to the banjo and
The Po' Ramblin' Boys at Bluegrass on the Grass 2025 - photo © Frank Baker Herewith, a second and final gallery of Frank Baker's fine photos from Bluegrass on the Grass, a free, one-day bluegrass festival held on the campus of
Kristin Scott Benson, Gena Britt, and Alison Brown in the Compass Records Studio Amongst yesterday's nominees announced for the 2025 IBMA Bluegrass Music Awards were two for a banjo tune first recorded by The Stanley Brothers in 1959, Ralph's Banjo Special.
