Mountain Home Music Company is proud to recognize the extraordinary talent on its roster that has earned nominations for the International Bluegrass Music Association’s 2025 awards. These artists have shaped today’s bluegrass sound through exceptional musicianship, inspired songwriting, and boundless dedication to their craft. For IBMA voters’ consideration:

Colorado-based quintet Squeaky Feet have announced the release of their sophomore studio album, Overview Effect - a tightly focused, emotionally intense journey that cements the band’s place as an emerging voice in the world of progressive and psychedelic rock.

ENDIT is thrilled to welcome STS9 back to the historic Boulder Theater on Friday, August 29, 2025—marking the band’s first appearance in the room in ten years and a rare chance to catch their genre-blurring, high-energy live show up close before their Dillon Amphitheater weekend. Doors open at 8:00 p.m., and the music lifts off at 9:00 p.m. This is an all ages performance (patrons under 16 must be accompanied by an adult).

“The hardship of loss can seem irrelevant compared to the beauty of the world,” muses East Nash Grass’s James Kee of the spirit behind the band’s latest single, “Lonesome Song.” “Ringing through the valleys and fields, loneliness stands contrary to the rest of nature, which seems so well matched.” Like that well-matched relationship, the 2024 IBMA New Artist of the Year-winning quintet use a subtle, poignant side of their musicianship to balance the highs and lows of “Lonesome Song’s” lyrics with a happy-go-lucky bluegrass feel,

This fall, two planets of pop culture collide on one sizzling stage as Prince/Bowie—the shapeshifting tribute that stitches together the funk‑drenched cosmos of Prince with the glitter‑splashed galaxy of David Bowie—hits the road for a run of festival and theatre dates. Imagine “1999” crash‑landing on “Ziggy Stardust,” a groove‑driven supernova where raspberry berets mingle with kabuki face paint, and you’ve got the electric heart of a Prince/Bowie show.

The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame has unveiled a newly expanded display honoring 2002 inductees Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, inviting music lovers to trace the making—and myth—of the band’s pivotal 1982 album, Long After Dark.

For the first time in the Flecktones’ 35‑year saga, every core member who has ever powered the band’s sound—banjo trailblazer Béla Fleck, bassist Victor Wooten, percussive inventor Roy “Future Man” Wooten, original harmonica‑piano wizard Howard Levy, and longtime sax virtuoso Jeff Coffin—will share the same stage on a full tour. This unprecedented five‑piece lineup launches the “Jingle All The Way” Holiday Tour, pairing the group’s genre‑bending fireworks with the mesmerizing Tuvan throat singers of Alash for an evening of boundary‑smashing seasonal joy.

Haight-Ashbury will be the epicenter of the psychedelic revival as it welcomes Deadheads from near and far for a weekend-long series of GD60 on Haight Street with pre-shows and after-parties at O’Reilly’s Pub celebrating the music and legacy of the Grateful Dead from July 31—August 3.

Pacific Northwest songsmith John Craigie teams up with Portland‑bred roots renegades Fruition for a festive, back‑to‑back run at Denver’s historic Ogden Theatre on Friday, December 12, and Saturday, December 13, 2025. Tickets for both shows go on sale Friday, July 18 at 10:00 a.m. MT through AXS.

On August 14, 2025, the dust-jacket comes off a hidden corner of American folk history when Woody At Home – Volumes 1 & 2 arrives via Shamus Records.