Nominees for the 32nd Annual IBMA Bluegrass Music Awards were appear July 20 in Nashville, Tennessee. In the running for the coveted Entertainer of the Year award are Balsam Range, Billy Strings, Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver, Del McCoury Band, and The Po' Ramblin' Boys. McCoury and Lawson are Bluegrass Hall of Fame members, while McCoury and Balsam Range are past winners of the International Bluegrass Music Association's summit award.

IBMA Awards logoAwards are voted on past the professional person membership of the International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA), a nonprofit professional person music organisation that connects, educates, and empowers bluegrass professionals and enthusiasts, honoring tradition and encouraging innovation in the bluegrass community worldwide (ibma.org). Award recipients will be named during the IBMA Bluegrass Music Awards Testify on Th night, September xxx, 2022 at the Duke Energy Centre for the Performing Arts in Raleigh, North Carolina. The awards show will also be broadcast on SiriusXM'due south Bluegrass Junction at seven:30 p.one thousand. EDT and streamed via Facebook Alive (as was the July xx awards nominees announcement)
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A complete list of nominees appears below, forth with information about three Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame inductees and 5 Distinguished Achievement Awards recipients.

Entertainer of the Year:

Balsam Range
Baton Strings
Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver
The Del McCoury Ring
The Po' Ramblin' Boys

Vocal Group of the Yr:

Darin & Brooke Aldridge
Balsam Range
Bluish Highway
Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver
Sister Sadie

Instrumental Group of the Year:

Appalachian Road Show
Billy Strings
Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper
The Infamous Stringdusters
The Travelin' McCourys

New Artist of the Year:

Appalachian Route Show
Carolina Blueish
Gina Furtado Project
High Allegiance
Merle Monroe

Song of the Year:

"Banjo Role player's Blues"
Artist: Loftier Fidelity
Songwriter: Charlie Monroe
Producers: Jeremy Stephens, Brad Benge
Label: Rebel Records

"Hitchhiking to California"
Artist: Alan Bibey & Grasstowne
Songwriters: Wes Golding/Alan Bibey/Jerry Salley
Producers: Jerry Salley, Ron Stewart, Dottie Leonard Miller
Label: Baton Blue Records

"Just Load the Wagon"
Artist: Inferior Sisk
Songwriter: J.R. Satterwhite
Producers: Amanda Melt, Junior Sisk, Marking Hodges
Label: Mountain Fever Records

"Leaving on Her Mind"
Artist: Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver
Songwriter: Jack Clement
Producer: Rosta Capek
Label: Billy Blue Records

"Richest Man"
Artist: Balsam Range
Songwriters: Jim Beavers/Jimmy Yeary/Connie Harrington
Producer: Balsam Range
Label: Mountain Dwelling Music Company

Album of the Twelvemonth:

Bluegrass 2020
Artist: Scott Vestal, Patrick McAvinue, Cody Kilby, Dominick Leslie, Curtis Vestal
Producers: Scott Vestal, Ethan Burkhardt, Lonnie Lassiter
Label: Pinecastle Records

Distance and Time
Creative person: Becky Buller
Producer: Stephen Mougin
Label: Dark Shadow Recording

Fall Like Rain
Creative person: Justin Moses
Producer: Justin Moses
Label: Mountain Fever Records

Industrial Forcefulness Bluegrass: Southwestern Ohio's Musical Legacy
Artist: Various Artists
Producer: Joe Mullins
Label: Smithsonian Folkways Recordings

Load the Carriage
Artist: Junior Sisk
Producers: Amanda Melt, Junior Sisk, Mark Hodges
Characterization: Mountain Fever Records

Withal Here
Creative person: Steve Gulley & Tim Stafford
Producers: Steve Gulley, Tim Stafford
Characterization: Mountain Home Music Visitor

Gospel Recording of the Year:

"After Awhile"
Artist: Dale Ann Bradley
Songwriter: Public Domain
Producer: Dale Ann Bradley
Label: Pinecastle Records

"Grit and Grace"
Artist: Balsam Range
Songwriters: Ann Melton/Milan Miller/Beth Husband
Producer: Balsam Range
Characterization: Mountain Home Music Visitor

"Hear Jerusalem Calling"
Artist: Joe Mullins & The Radio Ramblers
Songwriters: Marty Stuart/Jerry Sullivan
Producers: Joe Mullins, Dottie Leonard Miller
Label: Billy Blue Records

"In the Resurrection Morning"
Artists: Sacred Reunion featuring Doyle Lawson, Vince Gill, Barry Abernathy, Tim Stafford, Marker Wheeler, Jim VanCleve, Phil Leadbetter, Jason Moore
Songwriter: Mark Wheeler
Producers: Barry Abernathy, Jim VanCleve, Dottie Leonard Miller
Label: Billy Bluish Records

"When He Calls My Name"
Creative person: Alan Bibey & Grasstowne
Songwriters: Alan Bibey/Ronnie Bowman
Producers: Alan Bibey & Grasstowne, Ron Stewart, Jerry Salley, Dottie Leonard Miller
Label: Billy Blue Records

Instrumental Recording of the Year:

"The Appalachian Road"
Creative person: Appalachian Route Show
Songwriter: Jim VanCleve
Producers: Jim VanCleve, Barry Abernathy, Appalachian Road Show, Dottie Leonard Miller
Label: Billy Blue Records

"Foggy Mountain Chimes"
Artists: Scott Vestal, Patrick McAvinue, Cody Kilby, Dominick Leslie, Curtis Vestal
Songwriter: Earl Scruggs
Producer: Scott Vestal
Label: Pinecastle Records

"Ground Speed"
Artists: Kristin Scott Benson, Skip Cherryholmes, Jeremy Garrett, Kevin Kehrberg, Darren Nicholson
Songwriter: Earl Scruggs
Producer: Jon Weisberger
Label: Mountain Dwelling Music Company

"Mount Strings"
Artist: Sierra Hull
Songwriters: Frank Wakefield/Ruddy Allen
Producer: Joe Mullins
Label: Smithsonian Folkways Recordings

"Taxland"
Artist: Justin Moses with Sierra Hull
Songwriter: Justin Moses
Producer: Justin Moses
Characterization: Mountain Fever Records

Collaborative Recording of the Yr:

"Birmingham Jail"
Artists: Barry Abernathy with Vince Gill
Songwriter: Public Domain
Producers: Barry Abernathy, Jim VanCleve, Dottie Leonard Miller
Label: Billy Blue Records

"In the Resurrection Morning"
Artists: Sacred Reunion featuring Doyle Lawson, Vince Gill, Barry Abernathy, Tim Stafford, Mark Wheeler, Jim VanCleve, Phil Leadbetter, Jason Moore
Songwriter: Mark Wheeler
Producers: Barry Abernathy, Jim VanCleve, Dottie Leonard Miller
Label: Billy Blue Records

"My Infant'southward Gone"
Artists: Justin Moses with Del McCoury
Songwriter: Dennis Linde
Producer: Justin Moses
Label: Mount Fever Records

"Tears of Regret"
Artists: High Fidelity with Jesse McReynolds
Songwriters: Jesse McReynolds/Lucille Hutton
Producers: Jeremy Stephens, Corrina Rose Logston, Brad Benge
Label: Rebel Records

"White Line Fever"
Artists: Bobby Osborne with Tim O'Brien, Trey Hensley, Sierra Hull, Stuart Duncan, Todd Phillips, Alison Brown
Songwriters: Merle Haggard/Jeff Tweedy
Producers: Alison Brown, Garry West
Label: Compass Records

Male Vocaliser of the Year:

Ronnie Bowman
Del McCoury
Danny Paisley
Junior Sisk
Larry Sparks

Female person Vocaliser of the Year:

Brooke Aldridge
Dale Ann Bradley
Sierra Hull
Molly Tuttle
Rhonda Vincent

Banjo Player of the Year:

Gena Britt
Gina Furtado
Rob McCoury
Kristin Scott Benson
Scott Vestal

Bass Player of the Twelvemonth:

Mike Bub
Todd Phillips
Missy Raines
Mark Schatz
Marshall Wilborn

Fiddle Player of the Twelvemonth:

Jason Carter
Michael Cleveland
Stuart Duncan
Bronwyn Keith-Hynes
Deanie Richardson

Resophonic Guitar Player of the Year:

Jerry Douglas
Andy Hall
Rob Ickes
Phil Leadbetter
Justin Moses

Guitar Player of the Year :

Trey Hensley
Billy Strings
Bryan Sutton
Molly Tuttle
Jake Workman

Mandolin Actor of the Year:

Jesse Brock
Sam Bush
Sierra Hull
Ronnie McCoury
Tristan Scroggins

Alison Krauss, Lynn Morris, Stoneman Family to be Inducted into Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame

Inductions into the Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame are also set up to accept place during the IBMA Bluegrass Music Awards Show. Slated for induction are acclaimed creative person Alison Krauss, trailblazing bandleader and banjoist Lynn Morris and early bluegrass influencers Stoneman Family. A winner of multiple Grammy Awards, a 2-time IBMA Entertainer of the Year and iv-time IBMA Female Vocalist of the Yr; Krauss is the near commercially successful bluegrass-related creative person since Flatt & Scruggs. Morris was named three times as IBMA 's Female Vocalist of the Year and was previously a 2-time winner of the National Banjo Title in Winfield, Kansas. She was also a recipient of an IBMA Distinguished Achievement Award in 2010. Stoneman Family, whose 1920s recordings have been equated by country music historians with those of the Carter Family (who likewise hailed from the Appalachian Mountains region of southwest Virginia), also received IBMA's Distinguished Achievement Accolade in 2000.

Five Distinguished Achievement Awards Will Also Be Presented on Sept. 30

5 veteran bluegrass manufacture innovators will receive Distinguished Accomplishment Awards in recognition of their pregnant contributions to the genre this yr. The five, who will exist presented with plaques during a Sept. thirty lunch at the IBMA business conference, are Nancy Cardwell Webster, Lee Michael Dempsey, Jaroslav Pruch, Cliff Waldron, and Stan Zdonik. Cardwell Webster has been a writer, educator, mentor, and formerly served equally executive director of both the IBMA and its foundation. She was instrumental in developing such IBMA programs as Bluegrass in the Schools and Leadership Bluegrass. Dempsey, a mainstay at Bluegrass Country Radio, is a veteran Washington, DC expanse radio broadcaster who hosted a weekday afternoon contemporary bluegrass show daily on WAMU from 1982-2018 and was named IBMA Broadcaster of the Year in 1991. . He also has compiled Bluegrass Unlimited Magazine's monthly National Bluegrass Survey for virtually 32 years. Pruch, a Czech luthier and performer who is viewed as ane of the world's finest contemporary banjo makers, has likewise helped to foster a love of bluegrass music in his native Czech Republic. Waldron was a performing musician for many years and was elected to the Society for the Preservation of Bluegrass Music of America'due south Hall of Greats in 2004. Zdonik helped to grade the Boston Bluegrass Marriage in 1976 and served every bit the all-volunteer nonprofit organisation'due south beginning president. He has also been an emcee for the Joe Val Bluegrass Festival, amid others, and an IBMA board member.

IBMA WOB 2021The IBMA Bluegrass music Awards Show is the centerpiece of World of Bluegrass Calendar week that is slated for September 28-October two in North Carolina's upper-case letter metropolis. IBMA World of Bluegrass too features a business conference (Sept. 28-xxx), the IBMA Bluegrass Ramble (a series of showcases taking place Sept. 28-30 in downtown Raleigh and the Raleigh Convention Eye), and IBMA Bluegrass Alive! (a ii-day festival slated for Oct. i-two). Considered the genre'south almanac industry gathering and family reunion. IBMA's annual World of Bluegrass week has taken place in Raleigh since 2013. Concerns surrounding the Covid-19 pandemic prompted the trade and professional association for the global bluegrass community to shift to online presentation of its professional development seminars, artist showcases and awards last autumn.