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IBMA News
It’s been a few weeks since our last blog in June…but we hope everyone has had a great summer so far and was able to celebrate a Happy Fourth of July!!! We are glad to catch you up- to -date in our music and the Bluegrass world in general. We just got news today about the nominations for the second go round of the IBMA awards. If your not an IBMA member, IBMA is the biggest organization in the Bluegrass world that provides tons of help and opportunities for bluegrass musicians. IBMA stands for International Bluegrass Music Association. The mission of IBMA is Working together for high standards of professionalism, a greater appreciation for our music, and the success of the worldwide bluegrass community (http://www.ibma.org/). Many of you may be members already, but we didn’t want anyone to be reading this blog and have no clue about what IBMA is. IBMA takes place at the end of September and into the first part of October in Nashville, TN. Just as I mentioned already Today, the news was announced for the 2nd round of nominations in order for artists to be recognized for their hard work and dedication to the music that all of us love so much.
As of now we are in most of the categories that you can be in and among some of the top artists and musicians out there. The categories we have been chosen in are Entertainer of the Year, Vocal Group, Instrumental Group, Song-”I thought I’d Seen It All”, Album, Gospel Recorded Performance-”The Last Thing On His Mind”, Emerging Artist, Male Vocalist-Darin, Female Vocalist-Brooke, Banjo-Chris, Bass-Eddie, Dobro-Perry, Guitar-Darin, Mandolin-Darin and BROOKEJ and Fiddle-Josh. There is still one final round of votes to narrow down each of these categories that currently consist of about 20-30 of the top bands in the bluegrass industry. So out of 15 nominations so far we hope to be selected for as many of these as possible in the final round of votes…which should be announced in late August or early September and will consist of about 5 in each group. IBMA members are the only people eligible to vote…which we wish wasn’t so, but it’s really easy to become a member if your interested. Of course there is a yearly fee, but it’s a great way for you to stay caught up in the bluegrass industry. If interested go to www.ibma.org and check it out, not sure if it is too late to register this year, but could be something you would want to look into later. So back to what I was saying about already being a member….We hope to receive your votes in these categories and wanted to let you know which ones we were eligible for in case you were wondering? To each of you personally (IBMA member or not) we want to say thank you for being a part of our music family and always showing love and support for the hard work it takes to stay at the top of our game in the business. Weather we gain any of these awards or not, we just wanted to make sure you all knew how grateful we are for people like you that give us to the opportunity to be amongst the top artists in the bluegrass and gospel industries right now. We couldn’t play the instruments or have a song in our hearts if it wasn’t for the good Lord giving us family, friends, the talents and ambitions he provides daily. What a blessing it is to share this with each of you and we hope you guys are excited to see where our music is headed and what the Lord has in store for our future in music. Have a great rest of the week and we hope to hear back from all of you!!!
God Bless,
Darin and Brooke Aldridge
I don’t know if you can do this or not but the yellow writing on the left side is hard to read. The yellow print should be black or something. CWB
Charles, the text sometimes does not display correctly in old browsers. I’d like to suggest that you install a modern browser, Firefox (http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/) or Chrome (http://www.google.com/chrome). There’s probably a 95% or better chance that this will solve it, but if for whatever reason it doesn’t, certainly let me know. Thanks!
There is nothing wrong with the yellow print, it must be his browser.
Brooke and Darin,
We are SO excited for you and proud of your incredible work and talent! We are going to miss having you so close to home when everyone else out there finds out how great you are and results in your traveling everywhere else! There will be so many happy people though who get to hear what we already have…
All the best,
Emily
I can read it fine too.
I’m looking forward to Saturday at the High Country Bluegrass Festival in Boone. See you then
Sondra
Hey Guys, Congratulations on all the IBMA nominations. All of them are well deserved and I’m sure there will be many more in years to come. Keep up the great work.
Dennis
Congratulations on all of the nominations. We wish you really good luck and hope that you win at least half of them. Tell everyone hello for us and that we hate that we haven’t been able to come see you…..we will as soon as we can. Love to all, David, Alice and Stacy Powell
Darin,
I enjoyed the show at Morganton on July 04. Also, I know you were thrilled to play with Paul WIlliams.
Hi Kids,
I’m a recent fan but have fallen hard!
saw you in Boone Last week … both shows were stellar! I got to chat with you both a couple of times
maybe Brooke can add some vocal enhancement to Powderfinger when you do it
Darin, the other thing that struck me during my Vince Gill deja vu was that of an angel singing in my ear. You are cool and you are both angels
I can’t get “The sweetest waste of time” off of repeat You guys really nailed it! Casey Chambers
wrote it for you guys, really, her version was really a demo tape for you all. Has Sweetest Waste of time been released as a single? There are so many good songs on the new album! Thanks for authentically re-inventing the male/female duet , by a couple who really are in heavy love with each other, no less. Instead of faking as a couple like Dolly and Porter Conway and Lorretta ect. Most famous duets have been pairings of voices, not souls. the magic that occurs when you guys sing together is enhanced and made more true to the listener by the fact that you really are that fond of one another.
The other song I can’t get enough of is the Tom T Hall song. so clever and meant for the radio!
It’s funny, I also have a Casey Chambers personal encounter about 15 years ago at Merlefest.
anyway, best of luck to you both- you are rising stars! Big things are ahead!
Just remembered a song for you
“I Wasn’t Meant to Live My Life Alone” a duet by Tammy Wynette and Vince Gill on her “Higher Ground” album – has a beautiful mandolin playing I could just hear Brooke – and of course the Vince parts sound just like Darin
also, Vince Gills First top ten was the duet with Roseanne Cash that nobody remembers called “If It Weren’t For Him” also tasty
I really like however that you have found new songs that sound like classics, so you can make them classic!
I know you hear this every single time I see you two, but I must tell you once again how very proud I am of you! Reading about all your successes, nominations, fundraising efforts!, etc., lets me know you will always be the kind of stars people look up to. Keep up the wonderful work!