by bluegrassfound | May 30, 2024 | News
One of the best parts of IBMA’s World of Bluegrass event each fall is the College Bluegrass Band Showcase, featuring impressive talent from colleges and universities across the country. In addition to the entertainment value, college band showcases are often a window...
by bluegrassfound | May 29, 2024 | News
The Neil Rosenberg Bluegrass Scholar Award annually recognizes the best bluegrass-related paper accepted by a juried academic conference during the previous year. Developing academic scholars eligible for this award include graduate students in MA or PhD programs and...
by bluegrassfound | May 29, 2024 | News
Congratulations to Steven Ware of Waco, Texas, the lucky winner of a 2011 Golden Era Deering Banjo valued at $4,000 in the 4th annual Strings for Dreams Bluegrass Raffle. The drawing was live streamed from the IBMA Foundation’s Facebook page at noon Eastern Time on...
by bluegrassfound | May 29, 2024 | News
For the past four years, the Pisgah Banjo Company of Fairview, North Carolina, has conducted a fundraising raffle to benefit the IBMA Foundation’s Arnold Shultz Fund. A total of $31,800 was raised in 2024, with $10,000 designated for Black Banjo Reclamation Project...
by bluegrassfound | May 29, 2024 | News
The IBMA Foundation is pleased to announce the creation of the Gloria Belle Memorial Scholarship. The scholarship is named in memory of Gloria Bernadette Flickinger (1939-2023), best remembered for her work with Jimmy Martin & the Sunny Mountain Boys from 1968 to...
by bluegrassfound | May 29, 2024 | News
Thanks to Nancy Cardwell for giving me her space this month to speak to the IBMA Foundation’s many friends and supporters. At the end of June I will end my term on the board and as chair/president of this fine organization. It was in 1956 that I first heard bluegrass...
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