CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. \u2014 Get those banjos ready, because this isn’t a joke: Actor and comedy legend Steve Martin will co-host the IBMA Bluegrass Music Awards in Chattanooga for the first time.<\/p>\n
Martin will host the event alongside Grammy-award winning roots musician Alison Brown.<\/p>\n
This year’s show will take place Sept. 18 at 7:30 p.m. at the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Auditorium in Chattanooga. <\/p>\n
Fans are able to purchase tickets via Ticketmaster.<\/p>\n
\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 Martin said in a statement.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe IBMA Awards show is always one of my very favorite nights of the year,\u201d Brown added. \u201cI\u2019m so honored to co-host this year with my banjo pal Steve Martin.\u201d<\/p>\n
Martin is a longtime lover of bluegrass, first picking up the banjo as a teenager. He’s released a number of albums and even created the bluegrass musical \u201cBright Star \u201d for Broadway \u2014 a complex love story set against the American South written by Martin and Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Edie Brickell.<\/p>\n
In addition to their hosting duties, Martin and Brown’s collaborative single, \u201c5 Days Out, 2 Days Back,\u201d has been nominated in three categories: song of the year, music video of the year and collaborative recording of the year.<\/p>\n
IBMA is the International Bluegrass Music Association.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. \u2014 Get those banjos ready, because this isn’t a joke: Actor and comedy legend Steve Martin…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38663,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[34539,64,63,34540,6313,34542,134,34538,136,34541,32499],"class_list":["post-38662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-alison-brown","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-banjo","tag-chattanooga","tag-collaborative-recording","tag-entertainment","tag-ibma-bluegrass-music-awards","tag-music","tag-september-18","tag-steve-martin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}