Happy New Year to friends of the IBMA Foundation across the country and around the world! We couldn’t be happier to be kicking off 2025 with you.
Our shared passion for bluegrass music and the positive effect it has on our lives inspire us to work even harder together to support programs and initiatives that foster the growth of bluegrass. Thanks so much for helping the Foundation to make that happen in 2024, and we can hardly wait to see what the new year brings!
The deadline to apply for Arnold Shultz Fund grants is January 31. Please help us share the word! The link to the downloadable application form is on our homepage at the bottom: https://bluegrassfoundation.org.
The Shultz Fund was created in 2020 to encourage people of color to become more involved with bluegrass music. Big thanks to University of Colorado student Shaelyn Bruce, who is helping us promote the application deadline and info about the Arnold Shultz Fund on Facebook, Instagram, and beyond!
In this issue you’ll find a couple of reports from Shultz Fund grant recipients in 2024 from Missouri and Virginia; along with a report on a guitar raffle to benefit the IBMA Foundation at Blue Highway Fest in Big Stone Gap, Virginia last October; and info on how to help musicians and students who have lost their bluegrass instruments during Hurricane Helene.
The IBMA Foundation project grant committee is meeting now, and we plan to announce recipients in the February 1, 2025 issue of The Cornerstone. Thanks to all 37 applicants from all over the United States and four other countries!
It’s a wonderful bluegrass world out there, and we’re so happy you’re a part of it, through your support of the IBMA Foundation, as well as everything you do personally to share the music. We appreciate you!
–Nancy Cardwell, IBMA Foundation executive director
RETURN to the January 2025 issue of The Cornerstone.
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