by C-Nancy | Oct 6, 2023 | News
Blue Highway Fest in Big Stone Gap, Virginia (recently named IBMA Bluegrass Event of the Year), is holding an on-site guitar raffle October 11-14 to benefit the IBMA Foundation. Built by luthier Rufus Thames of Bristol, Virginia, the prize guitar is a replication of...
by C-Nancy | Oct 6, 2023 | News
By Nancy Cardwell It was a joy to see many of you in person at World of Bluegrass week in Raleigh, North Carolina, September 26 – 30! As usual, the priority was on seeing old friends, making new connections, discovering new music, and recognizing industry and musical...
by bluegrassfound | Aug 31, 2023 | News
Think of everything we balance—work schedules, tires, checkbooks, meals, practicing and sharing music, and so much more. Yet, for all we so carefully keep in tune, few of us consider balancing our charitable giving. But like everything else that runs better when...
by bluegrassfound | Aug 31, 2023 | News
by Erin DuBois, Assistant Superintendent, Greenville Central School District I’ve attached a photo of one of the small group sessions with our fourth graders and the bluegrass band Medusa Moonshine. Four classrooms of fourth grade students visited the...
by bluegrassfound | Aug 31, 2023 | News
By Bayla Davis The 2023 Béla Fleck Blue Ridge Banjo Camp was one of the best music camps I have ever been to! I attended in 2022 and liked it a lot. There weren’t a lot of kids last year, but I learned how to read tab and how to convert bluegrass songs into...
by bluegrassfound | Aug 31, 2023 | News
From Dave Howard, Executive Director, Louisville Folk School Thank you so much for helping us with the process of applying for an IBMA project grant this year. Thanks to the IBMA Foundation‘s support, our first-ever kids bluegrass camp was a huge success! We had eight...
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