As a commitment to our long held value statement to encourage diversity and inclusion in bluegrass music, the IBMA will add its support of #TheShowMustBePaused by:
- Closing its offices for all official business and communications. This is not a day off. In fact, it is a day of harder work to listen to and support those who are marginalized in our community.
- Sharing Rhiannon Giddens’ powerful keynote speech from 2017. She provides a brilliantly researched and delivered reflection on the history of Black people’s strong influence on bluegrass music and how it was subsequently hidden from public view.
- Postponing sending second round IBMA Bluegrass Music Awards ballots to Wednesday, June 3rd.
Sincerely,
The International Bluegrass Music Association
