{"id":176093,"date":"2025-07-31T12:17:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T16:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/07\/31\/steve-martin-alison-brown-to-host-2025-ibma-bluegrass-music-awards\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T12:17:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T16:17:07","slug":"steve-martin-alison-brown-to-host-2025-ibma-bluegrass-music-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/07\/31\/steve-martin-alison-brown-to-host-2025-ibma-bluegrass-music-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Martin &amp; Alison Brown to Host 2025 IBMA Bluegrass Music\u00a0Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- no image --><\/p>\n<div><!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-paywall\">\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tActor, comedian and banjoist <a data-id=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/steve-martin\/\" data-type=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/steve-martin\/\">Steve Martin<\/a> will team with banjoist and music industry executive <a data-id=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/alison-brown\/\" data-type=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/alison-brown\/\">Alison Brown<\/a> to cohost the 2025 IBMA Bluegrass Music Awards presented by Get It Played. The awards show is slated for Sept. 18 at 7:30 p.m. ET at the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Auditorium in Chattanooga, Tenn.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cThe IBMA Awards show is always one of my very favorite nights of the year,\u201d Brown in a statement. \u201cI\u2019m so honored to cohost this year with my banjo pal Steve Martin.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tMartin added, \u201cI\u2019m thrilled to be hosting with Alison Brown, and connecting with all my bluegrass friends as opposed to my kinda dumb comedy friends.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tMartin and Brown\u2019s single, \u201c5 Days Out, 2 Days Back,\u201d which features Tim O\u2019Brien, is nominated in several awards categories this year, including song of the year, music video of the year and collaborative recording of the year. Brown is also nominated for banjo player of the year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tAlison Krauss &amp; Union Station and Billy Strings lead this year\u2019s IBMA Bluegrass Music Awards <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/awards\/alison-krauss-union-station-billy-strings-2025-ibma-nominees-1236022512\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/awards\/alison-krauss-union-station-billy-strings-2025-ibma-nominees-1236022512\/\">nominees<\/a>. Both artists are up for entertainer of the year, along with Appalachian Road Show, East Nash Grass and The Del McCoury Band.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe 2025 IBMA Bluegrass Music Awards is part of IBMA World of Bluegrass\u00ae, in partnership with Chattanooga Tourism Co. and Tennessee Department of Tourist Development. The event runs from Sept. 16 to 20 and features not only the awards show, but also the IBMA Business Conference (Sept. 16-18), the IBMA Bluegrass Ramble showcases (Sept. 16-18) and IBMA Bluegrass Live! (Sept. 19-20).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tMartin is known for his work in films including 1987\u2019s <em>Planes, Trains and Automobiles<\/em>, 1989\u2019s <em>Parenthood<\/em> and 1991\u2019s <em>Father of the Bride<\/em>. He\u2019s currently starring in the Hulu series <em>Only Murders in the Building<\/em>. Beyond his work on screens, he\u2019s also a five-time Grammy-winning bluegrass banjoist and composer, an author, playwright and a comedian performing with longtime collaborator Martin Short on their comedy tour.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tBrown\u2019s work as a banjoist has earned her the distinguished achievement award from the IBMA and induction into the American Banjo Museum\u2019s Hall of Fame in 2019. Brown was also the first woman to win instrumentalist of the year from the International Bluegrass Music Association. Beyond her work as a musician, she is the co-founder of the Nashville-based Compass Records Group, which celebrates its 30th anniversary in 2025. Brown also serves as the president of the Nashville Board of Governors of The Recording Academy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tTickets for the IBMA Bluegrass Music Awards are available via Ticketmaster.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/awards\/steve-martin-alison-brown-ibma-bluegrass-awards-2025-hosts-1236034143\/\">Aller \u00e0 la source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actor, comedian and banjoist Steve Martin will team with banjoist and music industry executive Alison Brown to cohost the 2025 IBMA Bluegrass Music Awards presented by Get It Played. The awards show is slated for Sept. 18 at 7:30 p.m. ET at the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Auditorium in Chattanooga, Tenn. \u201cThe IBMA Awards show [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musique","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176093\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}