Drone footage and highlights from Raleigh’s Wide Open Bluegrass festival featuring clawhammer guitar by Molly Tuttle Saturday, September 30,2017.
IBMA Mandolin Player of the Year Sierra Hull plays « A Little Too Far » during her Wide Open Bluegreass set at Raleigh, N. C.’s Red Hat Amphitheater Saturday, Sept. 30,2017.
IBMA Guitar Player of the Year Molly Tuttle plays clawhammer guitar during her show at Wide Open Bluegrass at Raleigh’s Red Hat Amphitheater Friday, Sept. 29,2017.
John DeLuca and his wife Sandy, who are both visually impaired, had guides with them while attending Wide Open Bluegrass in downtown Raleigh Friday, Sept. 29 2017. PineCone, the organization that produces Wide Open Bluegrass in conjunction with the International Bluegrass Music Association, is providing guides to the visually impaired to the outdoor festival on request.
The Glorifying Vines Sisters got on a plane for the first time in August to travel to a festival performance in Lugano, Switzerland with the Music Maker Relief Foundation. The gospel group will be performing at Wide Open Bluegrass Friday night.
Learn the story behind the collaboration between the band Chatham County Line and Big Boss Brewing to produce « Chatham County Line Autumn Amber Ale ».
IBMA’s World of Bluegrass held a Shout & Shine jam celebrating diversity that featured several artists, including The Ebony Hillbillies, at The Pour House in downtown Raleigh on Tuesday, Sept. 26th.
American musician Rhiannon Giddens, formerly of the Carolina Chocolate Drops, delivered a powerful keynote speech at the Raleigh Convention Center to kick off IBMA’s World of Bluegrass on Tuesday Sept. 26,2017. She declared that the question today is not how to make bluegrass more diverse, but how to « bring the diversity back to bluegrass. »
As travelers waited at baggage claim on Monday afternoon they were greeted by DryBread Road, a bluegrass duo, in anticipation of this week’s bluegrass festival.
Rhiannon Giddens plays « Pretty Little Girl » with Giri and Uma Peters, two kids of Indian descent from Nashville who were one of the hits of last week’s World of Bluegrass festival in Raleigh. After reading that Carolina Chocolate Drops had inspired Uma to take up banjo, Giddens arranged a meeting at their home in Nashville and stayed about two hours, teaching them songs, history and musical techniques.
Uma Peters plays old-time banjo for Raleigh musician Joe Newberry at the IBMA trade show. Uma, 9, is from Nashville and attending her second World of Bluegrass in Raleigh.
World-class fiddler Michael Cleveland leads a hot pickup jam on the Marriott Hotel lobby’s handicap-access ramp — which has absolutely perfect acoustics.
Bluegrass star Del McCoury and his band run through a number in their dressing room backstage just before being called on stage at the IBMA Awards show in Raleigh, N. C..
Mandolin player Sierra Hull talks about her IBMA mandolin player of the year award from her dressing room backstage at the IBMA Awards. Hull co-hosted the event.
IBMA Momentum Award winner Molly Tuttle and her band peform Townes Van Zandt’s ‘White Freightliner Blues’ at The Lincoln Theater in Raleigh, N. C. Wendesday night, Sept. 28,2016.
Lillian Werbin of Elderly Instruments talks about the most expensive instrument the company brought to the IBMA trade expo this year. It’s a Gibson TB-18/TB12 Conversion banjo, priced at $45,000. Anyone who wants to try it out at the trade expo may do so.
