IBMA Fan Fest, October 2-4, Celebrates Bluegrass Music

NASHVILLE, TENN.–Bluegrass music’s premier indoor festival is just around the corner!  Bluegrass fans will want to reserve their tickets as soon as possible for IBMA‘s Bluegrass Fan Fest, scheduled for October 2-4, 2009, at the Nashville Convention Center. The star-studded grand finale of World of Bluegrass Week (Sept. 28 – Oct. 4) will present the talents of more than 60 phenomenal acts on three stages: the Main Stage, the Masters Workshop Stage and the Grand Master Fiddler Championship.

Fan Fest tickets are available for purchase at the festival gate. Three-day, single-day and student rated tickets will be available when ticket sales open on Friday, October 2, at 8 a.m. at the ticket sales center located inside the 601 Commerce Street entrance of the Nashville Convention Center.  Three-day tickets are $95, single-day tickets are $55 per day, and student tickets are $35 with ID.  Children under 16 are admitted free with paid adult admission.

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NewFound Road Announces New Bass Player

Burlington, MA – Jamey Booher, formerly of Grasstowne and The Booher Family, is the newest member of NewFound Road, replacing Randy Barnes on bass. A native of Johnson City, TN and younger brother of Joe Booher (mandolin), Jamey is very excited about this new venture and says he’s “glad to be playing music with my brother again, and to be a part of NewFound Road!”

NewFound Road has emerged as one of the most exciting new bands on the bluegrass landscape. Life in a Song, released in 2006 on Rounder, was NewFound Road’s first nationally-distributed album and their fourth overall. Boasting strong songwriting, thrilling instrumental work, and soulful solo and harmony singing, Life in a Song is quintessential contemporary bluegrass. No Depression described it as “…crisp picking, compelling harmonies, and solid songwriting,” while allmusic.com heralded it as “a winning modern bluegrass album that pays homage to the genre’s history without becoming trapped in it.”  NewFound Road’s new album, Same Old Place will be released in Spring 2009.

NewFound Road is: Tim Shelton (guitar/vocals), Jr. Williams (banjo/guitar/vocals), Joe Booher (mandolin), and Jamey Booher (mandolin/vocals).

Submitted by Rounder Records

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Rounder Recording Artists Receive SPBGMA Award Nominations

Burlington, MA – Rounder Records is pleased to announce several nominations for its artists by the Society for the Preservation of Bluegrass Music of America (S.P.B.G.M.A.) for the 35TH Annual SPBGMA awards. For the fourth consecutive year, the awards show will take place in Nashville at the Sheraton Music City Hotel on Sunday, February 15, 2009.

Rounder artists have the most overall nominations, including thirteen total for Rhonda Vincent & the Rage and nine total for The Grascals. Vincent is nominated to repeat as Entertainer of the Year and Best Contemporary Female Vocalist while she and her band are nominated for Bluegrass Band of the Year and Vocal Group of the Year, the latter being a category they won the past two years. New bluegrass duo Dailey & Vincent are nominated for nine awards, including Bluegrass Album of the Year, Vocal Group of the Year, Bluegrass Band of the Year, and Entertaining Group of the Year. All nominations are listed below.

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