Steven Ware wins Strings for Dreams Bluegrass Raffle

Steven Ware wins Strings for Dreams Bluegrass Raffle

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...
Donor profile: Patrick Sawyer, Pisgah Banjo Company

Donor profile: Patrick Sawyer, Pisgah Banjo Company

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...
Gloria Belle Memorial Bluegrass Scholarship announced

Gloria Belle Memorial Bluegrass Scholarship announced

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...
A message from Fred Bartenstein

A message from Fred Bartenstein

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...