Jamming in the shadow of the Raleigh sign at World of Bluegrass ’24 – photo © Jeromie Stephens
When IBMA’s World of Bluegrass pulled out of Nashville in 2012, I spent most of the 12-hour drive home, and many of the following months, thinking that IBMA had made a mortal mistake in moving the annual event over the mountains to Raleigh.
Attendance would certainly suffer. And the organization that raised most of its annual budget from World of Bluegrass would surely fade away or become a shadow of itself…