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Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame & Museum 311 West 2nd St. Owensboro, KY 42301 (270) 926-7891
- Alison Krauss
The most commercially successful bluegrass-related artist...
- Ricky Skaggs
Year Inducted: 2018 Born: July 18, 1954 in Louisa, Kentucky,...
- Bill Monroe
Remembered as the “Father of Bluegrass Music,” Bill Monroe...
- J.D. Crowe
Helped to revitalize the bluegrass genre with songs and...
- Josh Graves
In 1955 Burkett Howard “Buck” Graves changed the sound of...
- Tony Rice
With additional releases, Cold on the Shoulder, Me and My...
- Bill Emerson
He played on twenty-five instrumentals released on two...
- Earl Scruggs
Widely popular for an energetic and thoroughly rural style...
- David Jay Grisman
With influences ranging from bluegrass to jazz, New Jersey...
- Alison Krauss
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Billy Strings named “Entertainer of the Year”; Alison Krauss, Lynn Morris, and the Stoneman Family inducted into the IBMA Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame. The luncheon, hosted by Greg Blake with performances by Joe Mullins and the Radio Ramblers, was held Thursday, September 30, in Raleigh, NC.
The Hall's first inductees were Bill Monroe, widely considered as the founder of the genre, and Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs, two of bluegrass music's most pioneering and influential artists. Roy Acuff , the first living artist to join the Hall of Fame, was elected in 1962.
Jul 17, 2024 · IBMA has also announced Alan Munde, Jerry Douglas and Katy Daley as the latest Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame inductees, and Cindy Baucom, Laurie Lewis, Richard Hurst, ArtistWorks and Bloomin’ Bluegrass Festival as the IBMA Distinguished Achievement Award recipients.
- Liza Anderson
The most commercially successful bluegrass-related artist since Flatt & Scruggs. Recipient of more Grammy awards (27) than any female artist in any genre. Signed to Rounder Records at age fourteen, 1986.
Jun 26, 2020 · The newest performers inducted into IBMA’s Bluegrass Hall of Fame finally and definitively answered the big question in bluegrass. The question: Traditional or progressive? The answer, with today’s announcement of the pending induction of the Johnson Mountain Boys and New Grass Revival, is a resounding yes.
Year Inducted: 2018 Born: July 18, 1954 in Louisa, Kentucky, United States Primary Instrument: Mandolin. “That was a homerun for me . . . I had a great opportunity to try to bring bluegrass to the mainstream marketplace of the music industry by doing the things that I did.”
