{"id":52620,"date":"2025-08-01T13:39:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T13:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/52620\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T13:39:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T13:39:14","slug":"ibma-bluegrass-music-awards-with-steve-martin-and-alison-brown-local-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/52620\/","title":{"rendered":"IBMA Bluegrass Music Awards with Steve Martin and Alison Brown | Local News"},"content":{"rendered":"

NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Get those banjos ready, because this isn’t a joke: Actor and comedy legend Steve Martin<\/a> will co-host the IBMA Bluegrass Music Awards for the first time, alongside Grammy-award winning roots musician Alison Brown.<\/p>\n

This year’s show will take place Sept. 18 at 7:30 p.m. Eastern, in Chattanooga, Tennessee, at the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Auditorium. Fans are able to purchase tickets via Ticketmaster.<\/p>\n<\/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<\/a> as a teenager. He’s released a number of albums<\/a> and even created the bluegrass musical \u201cBright Star<\/a> \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

A previous version of this story incorrectly identified the banjoist Alison Brown as Alison Smith in its first usage.<\/p>\n

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