'There's no way I belong in this category with this man,' said an emotional Paisley. Danny Paisley, who accepted on her behalf, quickly thereafter was named Male Vocalist of the Year, in a tie with the legendary Del McCoury. Dale Ann Bradley won Female Vocalist of the Year for the sixth time, but was not on hand to accept. The award is dedicated in memory of my dad, the late Paul 'Moon' Mullins who helped promote bluegrass in Ohio for 45 years.'ДЄppalachian Road Show, a neo-traditional band of industry veterans that formed in 2018, had a good night, winning New Artist of the Year and Instrumental Group of the Year. 'Most of all thanks to the bluegrass pioneers who established southwest Ohio as one of the most significant markets in bluegrass history. 'I grew up in one of the best bluegrass neighborhoods on the planet,' said Mullins, who thanked his son Daniel, co-producer and author of the liner notes, as well as the many musicians who performed new versions of historically resonant songs. Ohio native Joe Mullins, a past Entertainer of the Year and part of a bluegrass family and broadcasting legacy from the area, accepted the award as producer of the Smithsonian Folkways album, which is a companion to a book of the same title. He had made no comment by Friday morning.ДЄlbum of the Year went to Industrial Strength Bluegrass, a conceptual, multi-artist project surveying the impact of the southwestern Ohio region on the boom in bluegrass music in the post WWII era. On the road between dates in Oklahoma and Memphis, Strings was one of numerous winners who could not be on hand to accept his awards in person. But when he started his own band, Strings found a way to blend vibrant traditional bluegrass feeling and forms with virtuoso improvisation and an electrifying stage show that's blown up on the jam band circuit. Strings, who turns 29 on Sunday, emerged five years ago playing intimate, old-time string band duo music with mandolinist and fellow Michigander Don Julin. The artist, who released his third album last Friday, also won Guitar Player of the Year for the second time in three years. On the most celebratory night of a smaller-than-usual World of Bluegrass in Raleigh, NC, the IBMA Thursday night crowned a new Entertainer of the Year and one of its youngest ever in bandleader and songwriter Billy Strings.

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