Category: Festivals
A message from the Organisers Dear Friends and Bluegrass lovers The biggest festival dedicated exclusively to Bluegrass music in Europe will not take place this year.Nor will the camp and workshop in the week before. The health of everyone, artists, volunteers and you, our festival visitors, is of primary importance for us, before any other […]
Dear artists and musician friends around Europe Please find information about this year’s festival and the application form to be considered for 2020. There are not significant changes this year. So far, we have not signed any contracts with US acts but we are getting close and I will put out information as soon as […]
The Roche Festival is Europe’s largest festival with bands and artists from all over Europe and the USA. A big part of the festival is the band competition for European Bluegrass Band of the Year. EBMA was proud to partner La Roche in the competition and supported European bluegrass bands by adding to the prize […]
For five years the Bluegrassfestival Freiolsheim has been an integral part of the cultural calendar of bluegrass lovers in and around Freiolsheim (Baden Würtemberg). „We have never had so many people here“, said the organizer, Jürgen Krämer, who was very lucky about the bought out „Mahlberghalle“. The first band of the evening was „The Lonesome […]
The bluegrass scene in Europe needs a new event concept! By Rupert Paulik New standards were set in Munich when, for the very first time, bluegrass musicians, performed in the Gasteig concert hall – a place that has normally resounded to the sounds of a philharmonic orchestra. Sponsored by the “Munich Bluegrass Friends” and streamed […]
This year the iconic bluegrass instrumentalist Missy Raines sat down with us in LaRoche to talk about collaboration and stepping out as a songwriter and singer on her latest album Royal Traveller, as well as her personal journey on the road to becoming one of Nashville‘s most beloved musicians. She also tells us how she […]
28.9.2019 Live music, workshop. jam session Da un idea di Danilo Cartia l’evento della musica Bluegrass in Italia! Concerti, jam session e workshop presso l’Acoustic Guitar Village di Cremona. Designed by Danilo Cartia, the Bluegrass music event in Italy!
EBMA is proud to partner the La Roche Bluegrass Festival and is adding to the band competition prize money. €500 to the winning band and €250 each to the 2nd and 3rd place bands Bands in the Competition are: Poa Pratensis (H) Handl (CZ) Jaywalkers (UK) Professional Deformation (CZ) Blueland (SLK) New Aliquot (CZ) The Original Five (SWE) […]
Joint Winners ! This evening, “Pine Marten” from Ireland together with “Le Chat Mort” from Sweden were declared joint winners of the band competition at the La Roche Bluegrass Festival. In third place was “Candy Floss” from the Slovak Republic. First and second place prize money will be divided between the two bands and both […]
Second edition of the free musical meeting ‘Banjo Jamboree’, taking place in Essen, Belgium on September 23rd and 24th 2017. Banjo or not, you’re cordially invited to come and join/enjoy spontaneous jam sessions at the ‘Caernhoeve’.Whether you’re staying for a couple of hours or the full weekend, you can join in with ANY acoustic instrument. […]