Welcome to this month’s Bluegrass Briefing, a weekly series of episodes taking a look at what’s going on in the world of bluegrass.

Here are the links to stuff mentioned in this episode.

Pod News

• Sara Watkins interview

News and announcements - church street news

• List of IBMA Award winners

Releases (The Grass is New)

• Alison Brown & Steve Martin album pre-order
• Pre-order Wes Corbett - Drift
• Vinyl reissues
  • Alison Krauss - Live
  • Tony Rice - Backwaters
• The Grass is (mostly) New 2025 playlist

Scroll on Buddy

• Billy Strings IBMA Keynote (from 47:31 in)

Other bits

• The Grass is (mostly) New 2025 playlist
• Full list of interviews
• Collings Guitars

Happy picking.

Matt

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