Miss Dixie was highly visible all week. We attended a number of after hours showcases at the Good Home Grown Music suite, enjoying all of them. Several years ago, the Halls announced that they were including IBMA in their wills, and planned to donate the royalties from their bluegrass publishing company, Good Homegrown Music.

We couldn’t photograph everything, but we did get shots of many of the activities at the convention center, the Ryman and even a few from the Bluegrass Inn.

This one brought smiles, it is Kristin Scott Benson, just after receiving the banjo player award from her former boss, Larry Stephenson.

On Saturday, the amazingly talented Sierra Hull appeared on the Fanfest stage. There was some pretty good picking going on.

We saw the Cats and the Fiddler, a young band from our home state, and some other great groups at the Bronzewound showcase on Monday.

All in all, it was a wonderful week for bluegrass. You can see all the photos in the gallery.

Civic Center Park is a nice location, and was filled to the brim with an enthusiastic audience. It was nice to see Justin Carbone was still traveling the host band, Special Consensus. I had thought perhaps that we had seen him for the last time earlier this summer.

The 2009 Galax Mountain Dulcimer champion Ashby Frank was playing what we expected him to be playing, and it wasn’t a dulcimer.

We stayed to the bitter end, and had a great time. You can see all the photos from the link on the here.