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Blackjack (CZ) with their award.

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The mission of EBMA

The European Bluegrass Music Association strives to
a) further bluegrass music in Europe by getting more people interested and involved,
b) further European bluegrass musicians and bands and
c) enhance bluegrass music's image.

This shall be achieved in particular by:
- annual gatherings
- a website as the main means of communication
- contacts between European bluegrass people (networking)

 

NEWS


01/06/2009: check out Media Release by EWOB: European Bluegrass Band Awards

01/06/2009: International Bluegrass Music Association, World of Bluegrass 2009 - Tickets Available June 1: Registration, tickets and booth space on sale NOW! Save $100 on each full week registration before July 7! Not sure if you need it this year? Watch this on YouTube and you'll know!

23/05/2009: Congratulations to all the winners of 12th EWOB Festival in Voorthuizen, The Netherlands, namely:

#1 European Bluegrass Band 2009:

1. Downtown Ramblers, Sweden (http://www.downtownramblers.com)
2. G-Runs ‘n Roses, Czech Republic (http://www.g-runs.com)
3. Kreni, Czech Republic (http://www.sweb.cz/bgkreni)

Audience Popularity Award 2009

1. Blackjack, CZ (http://www.blackjackband.cz)
2. Bluegrass Stuff, Italy (http://www.bluegrass.it)
3. Sunny Side, Czech Republic (http://www.sunnyside.cz)

More information to follow shortly.

09/04/2009: PDFs of pages 4, 8 and 9 of Bluegrass Europe issue 67 are available for download at --> Bluegrass Europe. For some mysterious reasons they didn't print out properly in the magazine. Feel free to print the pages and stick them in your personal copy of the magazine.

08/04/2009: EWOB month 2009 the full list is online here at --> EWOB --> EWOB month 2009. Up to now there are nearly 150 concerts, shows, gigs and festivals listed, all happening in the EWOB month of May 2009!

07-08/02/2009:The European Bluegrass community meeting in Bühl

Over 30 people from all over Europe are currently attending the European Bluegrass Summit in Bühl at the Bühl Civic Centre. Watch out for the results of this promising conference soon!

(Photo: L. Pavlak)

21/09/2008: EWOB 2009 band application now online at www.ewob.eu. See also how this wonderful site is currently improving step by step, thanks to the joint forces of Liz Meyer and "The Thirsty Lizards"

20-21/09/2008: the EWOB Committee of Voorthuizen and the new board of EBMA are meeting in Vlagwedde for a joint discussion of items concerning organisation and how to best achieve all our goals.

07/05/2008: European Bluegrass Band 2008:

#1 Acousticure, Hungary
2nd: Petr Brandejs Band, Czech Republic
3rd: Four Wheel Drive, NL/G/B

Audience Popularity Award goes to:
1st: Bluegrass Cwrkot, Czech Republic
2nd: Blackjack, Czech Republic
3rd Sunny Side, Czech Republic

Please check ewob.eu for press release

18/03/2008: check out our newly updated festival calendar!

11/12/2007: the festival calender is currently being updated. Please check the dates of your festival and if you have any additions or corrections, please send us a message to admin[at]ebma.org. Thank you!

22/10/2007: EBMA's website now based on CMS (content management system - for the experts among you, it's Typo3). It's much easier to maintain and will also enable us to distribute maintenance of specific sections to specialised people. Please check out the new old look and if you spot something that doesn't work, please let me know (admin @ ebma.org). Thank you for visiting EBMA.ORG!

10/10/2007: EBMA's EWOB 2008: all application forms online on this website. Check out here...

4/9/2007: EBMA has installed PayPal as a secure partner to accept membership fees. You can now become a member or renew your membership instantly by clicking the appropriate box and pay with your credit card online. You don't have to own a PayPal account to do this.


Read all about EWOB: www.ewob.eu

01/06/2009: check out Media Release by EWOB: European Bluegrass Band Awards

Mark your calendar: 13th EWOB Festival in Voorthuizen, NL, will be held May 13-14-15, 2010


EBMA - European Bluegrass Music Association
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EBMA - Membership
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EBMA - Contact address:
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EBMA - Board of Directors:
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