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The International Bluegrass Music Association, or IBMA, is a trade association to promote bluegrass music. Formed in 1985, IBMA established its first headquarters in Owensboro, Kentucky . In 1988 they announced plans to create the International Bluegrass Music Museum as a joint venture with RiverPark Center in Owensboro.
Later this event became the Minnesota Bluegrass & Old-Time Music Festival, located at El Rancho Mañana in central Minnesota. 1980 was also the year that MBOTMA held the first Buy, Sell, Swap Meet, which developed into the Winter Bluegrass Weekend: A Festival of Bluegrass & Old-Time Music & Dance, held annually the first weekend in March at the ...
The California Bluegrass Association has sponsored dozens of bluegrass festivals since its inception. The organization's main festival, held every Father's Day Weekend in June, is a four-day event at the Nevada County Fairgrounds in Grass Valley, California. This festival annually features a line-up of national and regional acts in the ...
Each band on this list either has published sources — such as a news reports, magazine articles, or books — verifying it is a performing or recording bluegrass band and meeting Wikipedia's notability criteria for bands, or a Wikipedia article confirming its notability. For individual musicians, see the List of bluegrass musicians.
The hall of fame honor was created in 1991 by the International Bluegrass Music Association and the inductees are honored annually at the International Bluegrass Music Awards ceremony. The Hall's first inductees were Bill Monroe , widely considered as the founder of the genre, and Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs , two of bluegrass music's most ...
Bluegrass music is a form of American roots music, and a subgenre of country music. Bluegrass was inspired by the music of Appalachia . [ 1 ] It has mixed roots in Irish , Scottish , Welsh , and English [ 2 ] traditional music, and also later influenced by the music of African-Americans [ 3 ] through incorporation of jazz elements.
Bluegrass Station straddles the Fayette and Bourbon county line. That means a tax on wages, which helps fund the bulk of city and county government operations, currently goes to Fayette County.
Bluegrass Unlimited is a founding member of the International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA). [4] Folklorist and music scholar Neil V. Rosenberg, in Bluegrass: A History, sets out the history of Bluegrass Unlimited and thereafter notes its prominence and influence as the oldest of the nationally distributed bluegrass magazines. [5]