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Last weekend at the La Roche Bluegrass Festival I had the opportunity to meet the European flatpicking legend François Vola. We had a very pleasant conversation and spent some time with picking. François told me about his new CD “Back to Bluegrass” which was recently reviewed by “Bluegrass Today” author Lee Zimmermann (Markus Rapke). A […]
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EBMA is glad to support WORLD BLUEGRASS DAY! The mission Celebrating Bluegrass through exposure, awareness and community involvement throughout the year. Every October 1st is World Bluegrass Day but that doesn’t mean we all don’t celebrate, share and inspire others throughout the year to start listening to Bluegrass music, start playing an instrument or travel […]
(by John Lawless) At a press conference earlier this morning at the SiriusXM studios in Nashville, the International Bluegrass Music Association announced the final nominees for the 2019 International Bluegrass Music Awards, along with this year’s Hall Of Fame Inductees and Distinguished Achievement Award recipients. The nominees are selected in a three part process by the professional […]
The EBMA is very pleased to present the new website www.ebma.org Included is the first European directory with Bluegrass musicians, bands, events and distributors. Create your own “musician” or “event” listing so that other Bluegrass musicians in your area can hear about you or your events. And as a “band”-member” you can now easily register […]
28.9.2019 Live music, workshop. jam session Da un idea di Danilo Cartia l’evento della musica Bluegrass in Italia! Concerti, jam session e workshop presso l’Acoustic Guitar Village di Cremona. Designed by Danilo Cartia, the Bluegrass music event in Italy!
EBMA is proud to partner the La Roche Bluegrass Festival and is adding to the band competition prize money. €500 to the winning band and €250 each to the 2nd and 3rd place bands Bands in the Competition are: Poa Pratensis (H) Handl (CZ) Jaywalkers (UK) Professional Deformation (CZ) Blueland (SLK) New Aliquot (CZ) The Original Five (SWE) […]
Pick your passion! From 4-6 October 2019 musicians gather in beautiful Aschau Germany for en extraordinary Bluegrass Camp
Blaubeuren is located at the foot of the “Schwäbischen Alb” not far from the city of Ulm, Germany. From February the 15th until 17th twenty Bluegrass Musicians from Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Holland, Italy, Denmark and the USA gathered to do what they desire the most: Playing Bluegrass Music! Who believes that there was a lot […]
Congratulations to Christopher Howard-Williams and everyone at La Roche, in recognition of their contribution to Bluegrass Music In September 2018 the IBMA recognized the significant contributions that Christopher Howard-Williams has brought to international bluegrass music with the presentation of their Distinguished Achievement Award. Howard-Williams has been active in bluegrass music circles for 30 years, firstly as a […]