Foundation awards five college scholarships

The IBMA Foundation is proud to announce the following recipients of college scholarships for the fall 2023 semester. Lucy Howe Becker originally from Lexington, Kentucky, and now living in Morehead, Kentucky, is the 2023 recipient of both the Sally Ann Forrester...

Consider a gift of life insurance

Help the IBMA Foundation thrive with a gift of life insurance. If you have a life insurance policy that has outlasted its original purpose, consider making a gift of your policy to the Foundation. You will not only support a cause you care about, but also enjoy...

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...