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:

To commemorate and celebrate the big relocation, Sister Sadie and aforementioned Bluegrass stalwarts The Po’ Ramblin’ Boys have teamed up on a little number that gets your boots stompin’ right out of the chute with some tasty banjo pickin’ before the first verse hits your ears, coming in sweeter than a tall glass of ice cold lemonade on a summer day.

Today, Nashville's GRAMMY-nominated all-female bluegrass band Sister Sadie release their highly anticipated fourth studio album, All Will Be Well, their second release for preeminent bluegrass label Mountain Home Music Company.

The bluegrass world has been abuzz since the venerable International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA) announced last year that it was moving its annual World of Bluegrass festivities to Chattanooga, Tennessee after spending nearly more than a dozen years in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Bluegrass may not have much room for the “confessional” approach of many singer/songwriters’ creations, but there’s been a place for what Bill Monroe, the music’s founder, called “true songs” at least since his “Memories of Mother and Dad,” which literally quoted his parents’ tombstones.

With the release of “Let The Circle Be Broken,” a song Billboard stated as “essential listening from one of bluegrass music’s most-lauded groups,” the GRAMMY-nominated ensemble Sister Sadie broke new ground with a somber yet uplifting exorcism of the generational trauma of domestic abuse. Today, they share the official video for the song.

Two-time Grammy-nominated and multiple International Bluegrass Music Association award-winning sextet Sister Sadie returns with All Will Be Well, their boldest and most personal album to date, due out June 27, 2025, via Mountain Home Music Company. The all-female group continues to push the boundaries of bluegrass while remaining firmly rooted in its soul, navigating themes that range from heartbreak to healing.

“We didn’t go in to record a bluegrass meets 90’s country record,” says Deanie Richardson, award-winning fiddler and a founding member of twice GRAMMY-nominated Sister Sadie. “However, as the record progressed, it quickly turned into my most favorite record I’ve ever done. Each song is personal to us all.”

As bluegrass aficionados know, the only thing better than hot fiddle playing is hot fiddle playing times two. Twin fiddles have played a prominent role in the genre since the mid 1950s, when artists like Bill Monroe and Mac Wiseman first enlivened their recordings with the distinctive sound.  

Anticipation has been running high since the announcement in February that acclaimed banjo player and singer Gena Britt of the GRAMMY-nominated ensemble Sister Sadie had been signed to pre-eminent bluegrass label, Mountain Home Music Company. Now, the veteran artist is releasing her first single for the label, a new rendition of an under-appreciated favorite that, like Britt herself, brings together past and present in the service of a compelling musical vision.