Actor, comic and banjoist Steve Martin will group with banjoist and music trade government Alison Brown to cohost the 2025 IBMA Bluegrass Music Awards introduced by Get It Performed. The awards present is slated for Sept. 18 at 7:30 p.m. ET on the Troopers and Sailors Memorial Auditorium in Chattanooga, Tenn.
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“The IBMA Awards present is all the time one among my very favourite nights of the 12 months,” Brown in an announcement. “I’m so honored to cohost this 12 months with my banjo pal Steve Martin.”
Martin added, “I’m thrilled to be internet hosting with Alison Brown, and connecting with all my bluegrass pals versus my kinda dumb comedy pals.”
Martin and Brown’s single, “5 Days Out, 2 Days Again,” which options Tim O’Brien, is nominated in a number of awards classes this 12 months, together with track of the 12 months, music video of the 12 months and collaborative recording of the 12 months. Brown can be nominated for banjo participant of the 12 months.
Alison Krauss & Union Station and Billy Strings lead this 12 months’s IBMA Bluegrass Music Awards nominees. Each artists are up for entertainer of the 12 months, together with Appalachian Street Present, East Nash Grass and The Del McCoury Band.
The 2025 IBMA Bluegrass Music Awards is a part of IBMA World of Bluegrass®, in partnership with Chattanooga Tourism Co. and Tennessee Division of Vacationer Improvement. The occasion runs from Sept. 16 to twenty and options not solely the awards present, but in addition the IBMA Enterprise Convention (Sept. 16-18), the IBMA Bluegrass Ramble showcases (Sept. 16-18) and IBMA Bluegrass Dwell! (Sept. 19-20).
Martin is understood for his work in movies together with 1987’s Planes, Trains and Cars, 1989’s Parenthood and 1991’s Father of the Bride. He’s presently starring within the Hulu collection Solely Murders within the Constructing. Past his work on screens, he’s additionally a five-time Grammy-winning bluegrass banjoist and composer, an writer, playwright and a comic performing with longtime collaborator Martin Quick on their comedy tour.
Brown’s work as a banjoist has earned her the distinguished achievement award from the IBMA and induction into the American Banjo Museum’s Corridor of Fame in 2019. Brown was additionally the primary lady to win instrumentalist of the 12 months from the Worldwide Bluegrass Music Affiliation. Past her work as a musician, she is the co-founder of the Nashville-based Compass Information Group, which celebrates its thirtieth anniversary in 2025. Brown additionally serves because the president of the Nashville Board of Governors of The Recording Academy.
Tickets for the IBMA Bluegrass Music Awards can be found through Ticketmaster.