Cade Botts wins Rosenberg Bluegrass Scholar Award

Congratulations to Cade Botts, the 2023 recipient of the IBMA Foundation’s Neil Rosenberg Bluegrass Scholar Award. Botts will be graduating in August with a master’s degree in music theory from the University of Tennessee – Knoxville, and his thesis is titled...

Fletcher Bright Memorial Grant reports from Tennessee

From Jessica Lang (a guitar playing/stongwriter college student at Belmont University I want to send my sincere thanks to the IBMA Foundation for providing grant funds so I could study at Kaufman Kamp June 11-17. I was able to study with Steve Kaufman, Beppe Gambetta,...

Blue Highway to raffle guitar to benefit IBMA Foundation

Award-winning band Blue Highway has announced a guitar raffle to benefit the IBMA Foundation. Ticket sales and the drawing will take place on-site at the Blue Highway Fest, scheduled for October 11-14, in Big Stone Gap, Virginia.  “I know first-hand what great work...
Arnold Shultz Fund grant report from Kenya

Arnold Shultz Fund grant report from Kenya

Elephant Grass Musical Chairs band leader and banjo player Tom Wolf shared the following correspondence with the school official where his band made a Shultz grant-funded bluegrass music presentation in Nairobi, Kenya on June 12, 2023.  Mr. Ndung’u, I know we...
Arnold Shultz Fund grant report from Arizona

Arnold Shultz Fund grant report from Arizona

By Anni Beach, President of Jam Pak Band Jam Pak is so grateful for the grant from the Arnold Shultz Fund to help with the expenses of the three-day Bluegrass Summer Camp with Jam Pak. This is the first time we have done this, and we consider this a prototype for the...