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Majority of 2011 IBMA Awards Go to BMI Bluegrass Family
The International Bluegrass Music Association Awards recognized the genre’s best on Thursday, September 29 at the historic Ryman Auditorium in Nashville. From Bill Monroe to Flatt and Scruggs, bluegrass’s deepest roots are intertwined with the BMI story. The 2011 IBMA Awards celebrated that history and today’s torch-bearers, as BMI legends, current leaders, and new voices shared the stage, winning the overwhelming majority of the…
From News, posted 10.03.11
BMI Offering New Songwriting Workshop
BMI is offering an eight-week songwriting workshop at its New York offices, taught by songwriter Billy Seidman and designed to help hone songwriting skills by focusing on lyric writing, music theory and arranging/productions techniques in contemporary songwriting. The class will feature constructive feedback, stimulating assignments, and literature created especially for the BMI Songwriting Workshop. Classes will meet on Thursdays for eight consecutive weeks starting September 29 —…
From News, posted 8.22.11
BMI’s Bluegrass Family Dominates 2011 IBMA Nominations
The International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA) has announced nominees for its prestigious International Bluegrass Music Awards, and BMI songwriters dominate the list. Ageless traditionalists and high lonesome boundary pushers rub elbows with one another in the 2011 roll call of bluegrass’s best, pointing to the genre’s undiminished relevance. With nine nods, the Boxcars lead the list of nominees. The group will vie for Entertainer, Instrumental Group and…
From News, posted 8.19.11
Hazel Dickens Dies
Roots music pioneer Hazel Dickens has died. She was 75. The West Virginia native was an early and acclaimed voice for the marginalized members of American society. Through her bluegrass-soaked folk, Dickens took up coal miners’ trials and addressed women’s issues—not solely out of empathy or political purpose, but because they were her issues, too. As a songwriter, instrumentalist and storyteller, she plowed a path, both as…
From News, posted 4.26.11
Harley Allen Dies
BMI singer, songwriter, and musician Harley Allen died last week after a battle with cancer. He was 55. Allen moved naturally from honky tonk to bluegrass to country music’s mainstream, and back again. The 2005 BMI Country Songwriter of the Year wrote or co-wrote BMI Country Award-winning songs including Alan Jackson’s searing “Between the Devil and Me” (1998) and “Everything I Love,” Joe Nichols’ “I’ll Wait for You”…
From News, posted 4.05.11
Lady Antebellum Soars at 2011 Grammy Awards
Lady Antebellum will bring a host of Grammy gold home to Nashville: With five wins, the crossover trio led the BMI charge at the 53rd Annual Grammy Awards, held last night in Los Angeles. Lady A's "Need You Now," co-written by members and BMI songwriters Dave Haywood and Charles Kelley, earned Record and Song of the Year, as well as Best…
From News, posted 2.14.11
New ‘BMI Live’ Program Allows Performing Songwriters To Register Live Concerts for Royalty Payments
BMI has launched BMI Live, a program enabling performing songwriters to register their concerts and set lists online to be considered for payment in live music venues, regardless of size. To qualify, songwriters need to enter their live musical performances on BMI’s website (a BMI Live video demo is available) . BMI will pay royalties to both writers and publishers via direct deposit in its June…
From News, posted 1.11.11
BMI Pickers and Poets Dominate 2010 IBMA Awards
Dailey & Vincent took home their third consecutive Entertainer of the Year crown during the 21st Annual International Bluegrass Music Awards, held Thursday, September 30, 2010, at the historic Ryman Auditorium in Nashville. The power-duo also earned Vocal Group and Album of the Year for Dailey & Vincent Sing the Statler Brothers, as well as Recorded Event of the Year for "Give This Message…
From News, posted 10.04.10
Dailey & Vincent Lead BMI List of IBMA Nominees
The International Bluegrass Music Association has announced nominees for the 2010 International Bluegrass Music Awards, and BMI songwriters, artists and musicians lead the list. The prestigious trophies will be handed out Thursday, September 30, 2010, at the historic Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, during World of Bluegrass week, September 27 – October 3. Reigning two-time Entertainers of the Year Dailey & Vincent earned an impressive 10 nominations, including…
From News, posted 8.18.10
Dailey and Vincent, Dan Tyminski, Michael Cleveland and More Dominate IBMA Awards
BMI’s bluegrass family dominated the 2009 International Bluegrass Music Awards, walking away with almost every trophy in every category. Dailey & Vincent, Dan Tyminski, and Michael Cleveland garnered the most honors, as they all made return trips to the stage during the ceremony on Thursday, October 1 at the legendary Ryman Auditorium. Dailey & Vincent claimed the Entertainer of the Year crown for the…
From News, posted 10.06.09
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